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U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski called Haines Borough mayor Douglas Olerud on Tuesday with some long and eagerly awaited news: The borough has been...

Since the First National Bank came to Haines in 1962, there has been only one place in town to make deposits and take out loans. Soon there will be tw...

As the season’s first snow fell in town last week, four car accidents were reported to the Haines Borough Police, including a four-vehicle accident...

After the sounds of the marching band and cheers from local businesses celebrating the opening of the Canadian border to customers and tourists...

Wendie Marriott and Bern Savikko’s Beach Road cabin was leveled by the December landslide. “It was smack dab in the middle of the slide,...

In an effort to increase participation, shoppers are now eligible to apply twice to the byHaines Shop Local and Save program. That means if consumers...

After several weeks of public hearings across Alaska, the state’s redistricting board settled on a state house map that would link Haines to...

Alaska Industrial Development Export Authority staff recommended that AIDEA let its lease with the Skagway Ore Terminal expire in March 2023. AIDEA...

In recent months, Constantine revised language on its website with regard to the Palmer Project’s road access—an issue raised in a securities...

The 58-year-old state ferry Matanuska will spend an additional two weeks in a Ketchikan shipyard so that workers can repair and replace corroded steel...

Nicole Marie Studley was born on Oct. 22, 1992 in Anchorage, Alaska at Providence Hospital. She passed from her earthly vessel into another place we c...

The Alaska Constitution requires that every 10 years voters consider whether it’s time to elect and convene a group of several dozen Alaskans to...

I believe biologists Carl Koch and Anthony Crupi created the 2020 brown bear crisis, combined with Chilkoot River bear viewing activities. Biologists...

As the election campaign season begins to raise its insidious head yet again, we are once again faced with the usual suspects promising to get it...

I realize the heliski conversation is an emotional topic but I’m encouraged to see folks moving past their opinions and starting to realize some...

Yurts are clearly a great danger to the value of properties in town and must be banned along with many other things. We currently define yurts as...

I read in the paper that the reason for banning yurts in the townsite is because it might affect property values. I ask you to think about all the imp...

Elephant in the room time, folks. (How to reference George Orwell’s classic essay with a single word 101: Bang! Look it up yourself—I have a 250...

The Haines Chamber of Commerce would like to thank the Haines Borough staff and assembly, grant administrator Carolann Wooton, Haines Borough Ports...