Chilkat Valley News - Serving Haines and Klukwan, Alaska since 1966

A timber company based in Haines Junction, Y.T., is ceasing sales in Haines following a dispute with the Haines Borough. Dimok Timber office manager...

Haines Borough manager Bill Seward started on the job this week, though he got a taste of local politics sitting on last week’s assembly meeting....

Things are looking up for Ladybug, a moose calf apparently orphaned during a bear attack in Anchorage in late May and brought to Kroschel Wildlife Cen...

Private businesses, government agencies and local volunteers participated in a joint rescue effort at Chilkoot Lake Saturday after a woman hiking up...

Alaska Natives who express a strong ethnic identity identify more strongly with clans they belong to than with their home communities, two...

Looking for an incentive to get off the couch? The first AKtive Triathlon is only three weeks away, so start training now. The July 16 event, which...

An idea by a local biologist for establishing an outhouse at Mosquito Lake recreation site has hit a hurdle. The Division of State Parks recently noti...

Gillnetters are earning a little more for their salmon this season, but harvested fewer fish than expected during the season’s first opener. “On...

Haines Borough public facilities director Brad Ryan will lead a presentation and field questions about the Small Boat Harbor expansion project at...

Alaska State Parks is making a final push to complete improvements on the Battery Point trail and needs volunteers to help it happen Saturday. Haines...

While its members can’t decide if they support designating the Chilkat River as an Outstanding National Resource Water, the Upper Lynn Canal Fish...

A free workshop led by Dan Henry July 7-9 aims at helping residents develop skits for September’s Historic Hysterics Skit Festival. The festival,...

Bullying isn’t something that just happens in schools, or among middle-schoolers. And it doesn’t always look like a student being pushed into a...

It appears that one of the first decisions for new manager Bill Seward will be whether musicians can perform in public here, and where. Longtime...

Neil Strauss, former New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, and Ear Magazine writer and author of several New York Times best sellers, brought a group...

On the scale of things, planning commissioner Donnie Turner’s “shut up” T-shirt was not particularly newsworthy and I was hoping to not publish...

I was particularly taken with a photograph in a past CVN issue depicting “Ice” Wangyot running in a track meet. This stunning photo captured a...

Here we are, living in one of the most beautiful places on earth, a place where we walk the streets any time of day or night (watching for the...

A long overdue “thank you” to the entire Haines Borough. This community will step up and support extracurricular school activities faster than a...

On Saturday, June 18, one of our first-year guides was exploring Chilkoot Lake on a personal trip. She was hiking up one of the creeks on the east...

In response to last week’s article, specifically to J.R. Churchill and the petition to repeal the 1 percent sales tax that funds the tourism...

Thanks to the more than 2,000 residents, visitors, and KCIBR participants who attended the Community King Salmon Barbecue June 18 at the Southeast...

Monday, June 20 The magistrate served a protective order on a Haines resident who was stalking another person. A Comstock Road resident reported a...