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The Southeast Alaska State Fair board canceled a meeting scheduled for Wednesday to take public input about the scheduling of Juneau Drag for this...

The Haines Borough School District Board unanimously approved a contract with the teacher’s union that provided a 10% raise to Haines School teacher...

The new Southeast Alaska State Fair executive director resigned after a month on the job after controversy erupted over the fair board’s scheduling...

A three-day public workshop led by Haines Economic Development Corporation last week generated a list of priorities toward stimulating the economy by...

A special election that will ask voters whether the planning commission should be elected will be held June 6. Tom Morphet and nine other sponsors of...

The Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches (AABC) announced its post-season awards this week, honoring three Haines Seniors and inviting them to...

Six Haines Hots Shots competed at the Western Regional Junior Championship in Las Vegas last weekend. Jackson Long, Dawson Holm, Colton Combs, James S...

The Chilkat Challenge Triathlon is resuming July 2 after a three-year absence due to pandemic concerns. The 36-mile race that includes paddling,...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has reduced this year’s non-hatchery chinook catch limit for Southeast commercial trollers by 44,000 fish...

A state senator wants to direct a larger share of filing fees paid to the court system toward a nonprofit legal aid organization that helps several...

When I was in middle school, in the late 1990s, a group of friends and I competed in a school talent show. Our act? Dressing up as the Spice Girls and...

It’s truth or consequences time for the little .75-acre lot at the corner of 3rd Avenue and Main Street in Haines. For more than ten years it sat...

Andrea Nelson spent a month in Whitehorse, Y.T. as an artist in residence through the Jenni House Artist Residency program. The program provided a...

Queer people have been around forever. Unfortunately, so have biases steeped in ignorance that these people are inherently dangerous, lewd, and need t...

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, "a drag queen is distinct from a cross-dresser because the motivation of dragging is typically not sexual"...

Just wanted to add a bit of context to my quote in the CVN article from last week: I had spoken during comments at the assembly meeting urging public...

Thank you for welcoming me into the community; I have cherished every patient and neighborly encounter. Heather Harms, the Chiropr...

Thank you to the SE AK Fair Community Outreach Coordinator, Amanda Randles, Board President Spencer Douthit and all who help pull together this...

There seems to be some confusion about our First Amendment rights. This revolutionary idea that trusting people with a free flow of information,...

I have lived in Haines for twenty-seven years. One of the most amazing things about living here for me has been that for the first time in my life I f...