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Clerk Julie Cozzi will take the helm of the Haines Borough for up to three months while the assembly looks for a new manager to replace Mark Earnest....

Interested in cattle drives along the historic Dalton Trail? How about the story of Carl Heinmiller and the revival of northern Tlingit art? Or the...

Haines Borough Manager Mark Earnest has shortlisted his favorite candidates for police chief from 16 to four, but at least one of them has...

Haines Borough officials are urging residents to carefully follow ballot directions when casting their votes Tuesday. Voters will elect two assembly...

State officials and organizations are weighing in on the proposed improvements to the Haines Highway, and a local environmental group is looking to...

A pro-Juneau Access road group convened in Haines Sept. 16, privately inviting locals to come and hear why the present ferry system is unsustainable...

Haines High School’s cross-country teams were a bit short-handed at a meet in Juneau last weekend, on a course that may have seemed a bit longer...

“Round Up,” a program to benefit the Soboleff-McRae Veterans Village and Wellness Center, will be held at participating stores around town...

Executive Travel magazine has named Haines among 12 of “America’s Best Small Towns.” The brief write-up in the upscale, bimonthly magazine descr...

As of Tuesday evening, 14 moose have been taken in the Haines area’s Tier II subsistence moose hunt, said Department of Fish and Game area wildlife...

Haines High School senior Eli White has been named a semifinalist in the 59th National Merit Scholarship program, the first local student to achieve...

The Haines Salvation Army is asking for immediate donations of cash, non-perishable food and volunteers to help with meal service during the Thanksgiv...

The annual membership meeting of public radio station KHNS will be held 5:30 p.m. Friday in the Haines ANB Hall. Besides elections to the station’s...

I moved to Haines to escape the crime and drug-infested Lower 48. I used to live in a small town in Idaho. Then meth moved in. With meth comes crime...

I would like to express my deep concern in regard to Chilkoot Indian Association’s half-page ads to vote “no” against the proposed change to...

The fact that we should take away the rights of corporations is just wrong. While it is true that corporations aren’t human beings, that truism is...

I have to wonder: Why is it that the Haines Chamber of Commerce and Chilkoot Indian Association are for corporate personhood? Both of these groups...

The initiative on the local ballot is about your values and rights. If you value subsistence fishing holes and feel a better design that would allow...

Argument: Alaska Native tribes are not artificial! They do, in fact, have a long, tragic history in their struggle to obtain recognition and equal...

On behalf of Lynn Canal Counseling Services (LCCS), we would like to thank the Chilkat Valley Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Alaska...

If you would like to support responsible candidates that are critical thinkers, open to ideas, use common sense and good judgment, then check the box...

Last fall, when the school board appointed Ardy Miller to a vacant seat on the school board, I didn’t know her, but her experience as a teacher and...

Scott Brewington and Jackie Haddock-Swift were married Saturday at the Presbyterian Church. Crystal Badgley officiated, and Haddock-Swift’s son...

Monday, Sept. 23 Police initiated a case for a hit-and-run vehicle accident in a business parking lot near 1 Mile Haines Highway. A caller reported...