The state Division of Forestry office in Haines would close under a proposal being considered by the Alaska Legislature’s House Finance Committee....

Up to 100 skiers, snowboarders, media representatives, sponsors and event organizers arrive in Haines next week for the Freeride World Tour, and the...

The Chilkat Valley Preschool’s plans to buy part of a building on Willard Street have fallen through due to zoning issues, preschool administrator...

A 1990 Haines High School graduate who spent three years as a homeless drug addict in Fresno, Calif. said recently that he’s hoping his...

A reasonable person looking at Alaska’s budget “shortfall” might conclude that our state’s leaders – from Gov. Bill Walker on down – are...

I hear the need for more parking at the Small Boat Harbor. Before we literally “pave paradise to put up a parking lot,” please, please consider mo...

Congratulations to the winners in the School Library’s Tournament of Readers! Forty-one students participated in the tournament this year. They...

Thanks to all who participated in the 2015 (Not So) Wintry Games at the fairgrounds on Saturday. Thanks to Takshanuk Watershed Council for running...

We have had poor king salmon returns for the last seven years. The return of kings in 1997 was 8,100. In 2014, it was 1,534. This year sport fishing...

I made three phone calls totaling 23 minutes at 2.9 cents / minute = $6.67. I learned that numerous studies have already been conducted to determine t...

John and Kristen Wiggins were married before about 25 people on the waterfront near Letnikof Cove on Feb. 28. Steve Virg-In officiated. About 50...

Here’s an interesting story. Go on the Haines Borough website, then go down to the departments section and click on ports and harbors. Then pull up...

I would like to thank Tod Sebens for finding these wonderful plays to help us through the long winters and for his soft-spoken direction.  I would...

The Haines Ski and Hike Club will decide Friday whether the 2nd annual Miles of Smiles Memorial Ski Race will be held this weekend. Weather...

The Haines High School basketball teams play Thursday, March 5 at the Region V Basketball Tournament in Ketchikan. Each squad is seeded fourth in...

The Haines Arts Council’s annual Northern Light Showcase of local musicians and artists is expanding into a two-night affair in order to spotlight...

The Telluride Mountain Film Festival returns to Harriett Hall at 6:30 p.m. Friday with 11 films showcasing the quirky, extreme and inspirational ways...

If you missed the Haines Arts Council’s screenings of Oscar-nominated animated and live-action shorts, you can still catch the Oscar-nominated...

The Alaska Arts Confluence has accepted seven additional artist proposals for the Fort Seward Historic District Sculpture Garden. The confluence...

Writer Jeremy Pataky will read from his debut poetry collection “Overwinter” at 7 p.m. Friday, March 20, at the library. Haines poets are welcome...

“Antiques Roadshow” overestimated the value and the rarity of two Tlingit masks that reportedly originated in the Chilkat Valley, according to...

The Southeast Alaska State Fair is helping solicit sponsors for the New Old Time Chautauqua, a traveling show of more than 50 performers. The show...

Haines Borough Mayor Jan Hill recently returned from a trip to Juneau for the Alaska Municipal League Winter Legislative conference, where she...

The Haines Borough and resident Paul Nelson are once again locked in a dispute stemming from Nelson’s use of glass for fill on his Skyline Estates...

The Haines Borough Assembly last week passed an ordinance increasing water and sewer rates by 5 percent annually for the next three years, despite...