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Local utility provider Alaska Power Company is proposing an across-the-board rate increase of more than 18 percent. The company is asking for the Regu...

The Haines Borough Assembly isn’t ready to offer the job to manager candidate David Sosa just yet. After coming out of executive session Tuesday,...

A “gut trap” that kept fish waste out of the Small Boat Harbor last summer helped Haines become the third community in the state to earn...

Former Haines Borough manager Mark Earnest is performing consulting services for the borough on an as-needed basis, said interim manager Julie Cozzi....

It’s back to square one in the Haines Borough’s search for a new police chief. Interim manager Julie Cozzi is “taking a second look” at some...

Supporters of a local domestic violence response group say they’ll seek state and local funding for a permanent “safe house” in Haines for femal...

Resident Rusty Goodin said burglars who zeroed in on his house at 6 Mile Haines Highway on Saturday, Nov. 23, cleared out the place. Alaska State Troo...

An election that ended this week could bring a “huge overhaul” to the Haines Chamber of Commerce, said president Barbara Mulford. Seven open...

The one-mile stretch of Chilkat River beach running from River Road to Carr’s Cove is officially closed to motorized use, including ATVs and snow...

Yet another former Haines Borough police officer has lost his certificate to work in Alaska law enforcement. John Havard, who worked for the Haines...

The annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count will take place in Haines Dec. 28. The count this year will be organized by the Ts’Ats’Ee Bird...

The wood already harvested from the Port Chilkoot Dock will be stored at the Public Safety Building until another sale this spring, but wood taken...

Holiday shopping at local stores has started slowly, but it’s too early to predict how it will finish, area shop owners said this week. “I think...

For decades, Joy dish soap was a “three-for” for commercial fishermen: They could use it to wash their dishes, scrub their fish holds and make a d...

A local woman has this message for whomever may have found her money pouch with $1,000 cash inside: “If you don’t return it, at least spend it in...

The Haines High School volleyball team tallied a 2-2 record at the season-concluding regional competition in Klawock last weekend. Craig and Klawock...

Former Haines resident Derrick Howard recently released “The Case of the Vanishing Scroll,” a mystery-adventure book written for the fourth- to...

The Haines High School boys’ basketball team is scheduled to host a Yukon squad for a pair of games this weekend. The match-ups are set for 7 p.m....

Haines Borough interim manager Julie Cozzi said she is still working with staff to develop an ordinance establishing a phone bill fee to help pay for...

Three Haines High School wrestlers qualified for this weekend’s state tournament at Anchorage Christian School, matching last year’s total. Freshm...

KHNS raised about $7,000 during its online and on-air auction fund-raiser, said development director Leslie Ross. “I was really happy with it,...

Why has the Haines Borough run through seven managers in 11 years? 1) Good managers are hard to find. 2) Haines is difficult to manage. 3) A...

There is now a bear trail around the outside of an electric fence at the landfill. No longer do bears go to the dump. No longer do employees of...

When did the Haines Highway become so dangerous? Why is our mayor looking to other Southeast mayors to support its realignment despite legitimate...