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Following 40 minutes of closed-door discussion, the Haines Borough Assembly voted unanimously Tuesday to accept a “negotiated separation... Full story

Appeals to 2013 property assessments are pouring into the Haines Borough, and many concerned property owners are still seeking explanations for why th... Full story

Director Tod Sebens says the point of theater isn’t always to make audiences smile, or laugh, or to divert their attention from the realities of... Full story

Shortly after arriving in La Paz, Bolivia, Lenore “Nori” Nash, accompanied her boss to a heavy metal festival in one of the city’s more... Full story

In a “lean” $2 billion capital budget recently passed by the Alaska Senate, about $39 million will go toward Haines projects. Haines’ slice of t... Full story

Haines Borough officials have deemed Bigfoot Auto Service’s bid to solve the town’s towing, impoundment and junked-car issues as inadequate.... Full story

At $2.71 million, sales tax revenues to the Haines Borough in 2012 matched those of 2011, according to figures compiled recently by the municipality.... Full story

The lowest bid for the Port Chilkoot Dock and Letnikof Harbor renovation projects is $500,000 under budget, allowing the Haines Borough to include... Full story

Three Haines athletes made the starting line-ups of college basketball teams this year, and all three saw how quickly injuries can change a season.... Full story

Alaska Power and Telephone is pursuing the alternative licensing process (ALP) for the Connelly Lake project despite the Haines Borough expressing... Full story

A researcher with the state Division of Subsistence will be in town next week, interviewing residents about their subsistence harvests during the... Full story

A representative from the state office of Occupational Safety and Health last week made a surprise visit to the Haines Borough’s public safety... Full story

Coast Guard officials called off a search and rescue operation Wednesday evening after they found a Haines man and his sailboat tucked safe and sound... Full story

Haines Borough staff and assembly members are planning an overnight trip to Skagway April 26-27 to meet with regional leaders to discuss mutual... Full story

The Haines Borough has withdrawn its request for bids to provide a card-lock system for fuel purchases at the Small Boat Harbor. Assistant to the... Full story

To demonstrate their respect for the law, Haines Borough leaders should refer the complaint against outgoing police chief Gary Lowe to the Alaska... Full story

Girls middle school volleyball coach Cassie Miller and assistant coach Brittany Miller traveled with nine players to Juneau for a tournament at Floyd... Full story

This letter is to point out that the huge land assessment increases that were made this year by the borough, some of which appeared in the newspaper,... Full story

What appalls me in the matter of chief Lowe is that had this assembly and manager listened to even one word of what people were saying, they could... Full story

Scott Rossman asked the question in last week’s CVN, “How long must we pay for the sins of our fathers?” It is a fair question. I was recently... Full story

Thank you to everyone who helped to make this year’s Health Fair the most fun and the best ever! It was enjoyable for us to see so many new faces... Full story

The engineering report on the potential of Schubee Lake as a hydropower site doesn’t tell us much that’s new. A stream gauge wasn’t used to... Full story

The management of the Haines Borough is finally showing they can’t manage. The budget is in the red, schools are down in count, closing important... Full story

Recently in the paper a good man referred to the unofficial shooting place near 7 Mile Haines Highway as a “redneck shooting range.” At first, I... Full story