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Can Haines attract niche wedding market?
Weddings in Haines are going pro, and people familiar with local nuptials say it’s about time. Summertime outdoor weddings are a long local...
School board to decide on updated mitigation protocols
The Haines Borough School District Board will vote on updated school mitigation protocols at a special meeting next week after hearing...
Duly Noted
Jenn Walsh, Jessica Kayser-Forster, and Abbey Holmes are home from a nine-day and 100-mile journey. They were dropped on top of Flower Mountain by...
Attractants, garbage continue to draw bears
Bear attractants remain an issue in Haines, according to a CVN review of more than 140 police reports, and are associated with property damage...
Fair opens with COVID precautions
With reported COVID-19 cases again rising in Alaska, officials with the Southeast Alaska State Fair...
Fair offerings: winning ribbons, training chickens
Taylen Reed couldn't get off from her job bartending at Kito's Kave in Petersburg to attend the...
Manager job offered to Annette Kreitzer
After a 15-month process that included two rounds of searches and a job offer that was turned down i...
Haines unlikely to serve as port for Yukon ore exports
At a public meeting hosted by Lynn Canal Conservation last week speakers cast doubt that Haines could be a viable port for Yukon mining interests....
Highway project costs increase at 19 Mile
A major design change to work at the 19 Mile slide will add up to $2 million to the cost of the Haines Highway reconstruction project and may delay a...
Assembly briefs
Assembly approves disaster debris processing funds The Haines Borough assembly approved unanimously at its Tuesday meeting up to $110,000 for...
Disaster relief group could help rebuild homes
Representatives from the Mennonite Disaster Services (MDS) were in town this week meeting with the Haines Long Term Recovery Group and residents...
Arts Outlook
Display of antiquarian books Haines reporter and writer Tom Morphet will display a collection of...
Duly Noted
Dan Schultz and Stacie Evans were married at Chilkat State Park on July 24. Derek Poinsette officiated the wedding ceremony that was followed by a...
Canada border opens, with restrictions
News that Canada would open its borders to U.S. citizens making non-essential trips starting Aug. 9 this week energized residents and business owners,...
Southeast Alaska State Fair
The town's biggest celebration in two years will culminate with an all-comers whipped-cream pie...
Lawson, Army and law enforcement veteran, dies of COVID-19 at 48
Robert Lawson, who grew up in Haines and served eight years as an Alaska state trooper, died of... Full story
Duly Noted
Nash Steel Stickler was born on July 14 at Queen’s North Hawaii Community Hospital on the Big Island. He weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces and was 20.5 inc...
Duly Noted
Deanna Wheeler and Candi Bradford hosted a “see ya later” party on June 27 for the Crager family and Joshua Wheeler. Joshua Wheeler and Makayla...
Thin for better fruit
Each spring, fruit trees and berries produce all the blossoms they can muster. By late June and early July, the fruitlets are forming and it’s time...
May gloomy, but not gloomiest
If you thought May’s weather was bleak, you’re right. But it wasn’t the bleakest May the town has seen. “May 2021 was somewhat gloomier than a...
Child advocate was 'incredibly active'
Friends and family will gather in Haines next month to scatter the ashes of Diane Sly, a tireless... Full story
Should the borough allow more Haines heliski operators?
The Haines Borough’s denial of an Idaho-based heliski company’s permit application is sparking a discussion about increasing the limit on how...
Chilkoot Lake Corridor project nears completion
Southeast Roadbuilders finished paving Chilkoot Lake Road last week and the $1.6 million improvement project, more than 10 years in the making, is nea...
Public meeting gets 'Zoom bombed'
The Haines Borough public safety commission was targeted by bad actors last week when random voices disrupted the meeting shouting racist epithets...
Arts Outlook
First Fridays are back First Fridays have returned as more people become comfortable going out and about. Three artists will be displaying their work...