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Nine-year-old Asher Jimenez was walking home at 10 a.m. on Sunday when he cut through the school playground and encountered a bear running at him. Gab...

The soaring price of lumber and construction materials nationwide is forcing Haines residents to delay projects, eat the high cost of materials and...

Beach Road residents will have to wait another year for a permanent road and power to their homes if the Haines Borough Assembly follows the advice...

A historical perspective might help inform the conversation we’re having on becoming a Second Amendment Sanctuary City. A Haines Chatters debate...

Denise Sherman and Jim “Jimmer” Stickler were married at New Hope Fellowship Church on May 1. Pastor Sage Thomas officiated. The couple was...

The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) last week proposed financing and developing Lutak Dock reconstruction to include an...

Chuck Mitman was awarded the Commander of the Year Award by the Department of Alaska of The American Legion and Lynn Canal Post 12 was given the...

The Personnel Committee Tuesday discussed ways to improve the borough manager hiring process including turning over to the borough clerk...

Is hate too strong a word? Maybe it’s more of a general disinterest in gardening as a hobby or lack of confidence in our ability to make a garden a...

Haines High School art students participated in a virtual Art Fest in early April. They each participated in individual 15 -hour art workshops in...

An unknown substance near the Chilkoot River made dogs sick twice this month. The pet owners had to make their animals vomit and the dogs needed...

The Haines Economic Development Corporation board last week hired Sally Andersen as its executive director. Andersen had been filling in as interim di...

The Haines Friends of Recycling will host an Earth Day Zoom conference about ways to reduce waste, save money and extend the life of the landfill. Fri...

Spring hit Haines last week with an incredible force that we should have all anticipated, given how extreme everything has been in our community over...

The Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay Board (KCIBR) voted to hold a virtual race where participants can cycle along routes of their choosing,...

Dusty Trails Apartments is finally being remodeled after a new owner purchased the property early last year. Six years after improvements were first...

American professional big mountain freeskier Lexi DuPont is currently in Haines heliskiing with SEABA. She is an athlete for BLANK collective films...

Police charged a 33-year-old woman Monday morning with domestic violence assault, a class B felony, after she allegedly hit her boyfriend in the head...

The Olen Nash Memorial Big Air Competition was held on Sunday, Apr. 11 at 36 Mile Haines Highway. Organizers were middle and high school students Leo...

Oregon company NWFP INC. was the high bidder on the 1,000-acre Baby Brown timber sale 37 miles north of Haines—the largest timber sale in more than...

Borough fish tax coffers are expected to take a hit next year. OBI Seafoods announced it will suspend its cannery operations at its Excursion Inlet...

King salmon sport fishing in the Chilkat Inlet north of Seduction Point is again closed from April 1 through July 15—the fifth consecutive year...