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Borough facilities director Brad Maynard has prepared a request for MRV Architects of Juneau to measure demand for a community recreation center that...

A team from Haines and Skagway early today climbed within shouting distance of a fallen hiker who’d spent 12 hours braced against a tree on a...

Tim McDonough said he and wife Ann Myren will be wearing new Canadian-made ice spikes on future skating outings following their fall through the ice...

Former customers of Crystal Cathedrals Water and Sewer System say they want their old water source back and are skeptical of a new Haines Borough...

I’d like to thank the people who helped make my recent show possible: Georgia Giacobbe at the Chilkat Center, the Haines Arts Council, Gina...

Five-dollar-per-gallon gas is predicted for the lower states? What’s in store for Alaskans? If domestic terrorism on oil refineries interrupts...

In response to Eric Holle’s views on logging, habitat destruction from slides is complicated. Mud, snow and timber slides have different...

Much has been written about our Chilkat Center Arts building. I know we need five million dollars worth of upgrades. Nonetheless, it’s a...

HAL designers and trustees are negligent and so is the borough planning commission. Sure, HAL is a "good project," but what about the...

Partnerships and collaborations are essential to any non-profit’s success.  Takshanuk Watershed Council would like to thank the Chilkat...

This week I was speaking to someone whose spouse works at the Kensington mine. I was appalled to hear that the employee was not allowed to wish their...

Two weeks’ vacation was enough time for the editor to clean out the cubbies of his desk, unearthing scraps of notes, mementos, and bits of...

Karen Hess will pursue her appeal of last fall’s municipal election as an administrative appeal instead of a civil suit. "We filed an admin...

A planned meeting to discuss designating a portion of the Chilkoot Lake watershed a state recreation site or state recreation area has been postponed...

Loss of cruise ship head tax revenues and a leaner proposed spending plan by Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell will likely equate to a drop in state spending...

The Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood installed their new officers last month at the ANB/ANS Hall. Husband and wife team Raymond...

Plans for a safer route to school this winter were blocked in part by difficulty securing a state driveway permit to place a culvert in the...

By Jonathan Grass Juneau Empire Coeur Alaska will pay a $170,000 penalty to the Environmental Protection Agency to resolve Clean Water Act violations...

If you’re a woman with an idea for a community improvement or are just interested in a way to lend a hand, the Haines Woman’s Club is look...

The Haines Borough Assembly on Dec. 28 approved an ordinance that creates a waiting period for tour applicants with dodgy histories and rejected a...

Borough manager Mark Earnest has offered the tourism director position to a 2001 University of Alaska-Southeast graduate who worked as a naturalist fo...

Haines Highway will be closed Saturday, Jan. 15, from Mile 42 to Dezadeash Lake for the Alcan 200 snowmachine road race. The closure has been set for...

Glacier Bear basketball starts officially this weekend with a boys’ team homestand against the Petersburg Vikings. Varsity games start at 7:30...

Brenda Jones and Ned Rozbicki have been elected as new members of the Haines Chamber of Commerce board of directors. Jones, Rozbicki and Evangeline...

A meeting will be held Jan. 26 to begin work toward downtown revitalization. The meeting time and location are pending. At the request of Haines...