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Main Street will be bathed in winding, blue lights for the holidays, replacing the illuminated, tinsel-fringed candles that served as the town’s...

The Chilkoot Indian Association is bracing for funding cuts of up to 20 percent in the coming year, tribal administrator Dave Berry said this week. Th...

Lynn Canal Community Players will stage the Tony Award-winning comedy “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” Dec. 6-8 at the Chilkat Center audito...

A caller who apparently hacked the Haines Borough School District’s phone system may have accessed the system through a default password to an...

Following a three-year hiatus, the community Restoration Advisory Board for the clean-up of the U.S. Army tank farm site on Lutak Road will meet Dec....

An official count of only nine students at Mosquito Lake School will reduce state funding for the Haines Borough School District and will prompt...

A cold spring brought a slow start to the 2013 tour season, but the season rebounded in July and August to finish with numbers on par with last year....

Alaska Power and Telephone officials are investigating a series of unauthorized overseas phone calls originating from a Haines School phone number....

Release of a rehabilitated bald eagle, new research on migration patterns of Chilkat eagles, and tales of a week spent living in an eagle’s nest wil...

The first bottles of locally made spirits have won some favorable reviews, following a debut last weekend in liquor stores and drinking...

Expectant parents Heather Smith and Matt Hunter of Haines figured they were ahead of schedule, moving into a Juneau hotel room 12 days before...

A six-page article about the Golden Circle route in the October-November issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine paints a glowing portrait of pedaling the...

About 20 residents with questions ranging from dropping off airline passengers to fisheries impacts attended an Oct. 21 meeting on a $5.7 million airp...

Snow in town by Halloween – at least a dusting – is shorthand for when winter starts in the Chilkat Valley. On Monday, not even the...

It may not be the Great Pumpkin, but one hoisted onto a desk at the Haines School library Monday is the biggest pumpkin seen around here in a long...

Recent agreements with local nonprofits mean the ground floor of the Soboleff-McRae Veterans Village and Wellness Center will be fully occupied when...

Reports of record salmon harvests don’t extend to Haines. Lynn Canal gillnetters hauled in fish worth $9.28 million in 2013, down from about $15...

A private salvage crew that included frogmen on Wednesday used 24 inflatable “lift bags” to right and begin to refloat the 76-foot commercial...

Friends, co-workers and taxpayers turned out Sept. 25 to recognize retiring Haines Borough staffer Sue Nelson. Nelson worked most recently as...

The Big Brothers Big Sisters program has been revived in Haines, starting with a presentation Thursday, Oct. 10, for prospective adult volunteers and...

Carry a bright flashlight and don’t talk to an angry moose. That’s the advice of 40-year-resident Deb Marshall after being stomped Sept. 19 near...

Don Nash didn’t have time to get off a shot against a bear that charged him while he was moose hunting last week. So he charged it back. “I ran...

Members elected four new KHNS board members and heard a lively discussion on joining a Southeast radio consortium at the station’s annual...

A host of local programs will be held in observance of Alaska Book Week, Oct. 5-12. The week is a statewide celebration of Alaska’s authors and...

Voting machines that reject ballots on which preferences aren’t marked for each question smack of the nanny state and need to be fixed. Voters...