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Soboleff-McRae Veterans Village officials don’t think property tax should be levied on the second floor of their building. The Haines Borough...

A worldwide ski and snowboard competition affiliated with Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures has applied to hold an event in Haines, and is...

Opponents of the East Side Lynn Canal Highway, also known as the Juneau Road, outnumbered the project’s advocates five to one at last week’s...

If a rash of car break-ins during the summer of 2013 didn’t convince residents to start locking their car doors, recent incidents on Comstock Drive...

Troopers arrested a 23-year-old Haines man last week on felony theft and misdemeanor trespassing charges after he allegedly stole an ATV from a gravel...

Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center executive director Lani Hotch told a crowd at the project’s annual benefit dinner Friday she hopes to open the doors...

Chilkat Guides will partner with Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center to offer upwards of 40 cruise-based tours at Klukwan next summer. The partnership...

Haines Borough Police Chief Bill Musser said this week he’s using public education to gain compliance with the municipality’s bear attractant...

It’s what’s on the inside that counts at this year’s 37th Annual Doll Fair.   The exhibit “Inside and Out: Dollhouses and Historic...

An unexpected surge of Chilkoot-run sockeye, stable prices and hatchery chum catches helped make the 2014 commercial gillnet fishery another lucrative...

Harvest Party offers cake walk, hay rides The Haines Harvest Party has been resurrected by a group of volunteers dedicated to providing family-friendl...

Thanks to all who voted and ran in our local election. Turning to the statewide election, a very close vote is expected in the US Senate race. If you...

It seems some people just do not get it. Libby Kurz can be worried about children and edibles all she wants to; Thousands of studies have shown...

Wake up, Alaska, and smell what is coming out of Colorado. It stinks. Legalization and commercialization of marijuana in Colorado started less than...

Why did they build the Klondike Highway to Whitehorse, Y.T.? Skagway was already connected by railroad. They had an airport. They had ferry...

Chip and Heather Lende are again proud grandparents. James Louis Lende Dorn was born at 4:55 a.m. on Oct. 15 at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau t...

Monday, Oct. 20 A Barnett Drive caller reported hearing bear activity at a neighbor’s house. The caller scared the bear away. Police, troopers and...