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A belted kingfisher found at the Small Boat Harbor is on his way to an Anchorage bird hospital. Fisherman Norman Hughes said he found the crested...

The Haines School music department wants to make you a pizza for Super Bowl Sunday. School music director Kristy Totten said they are prepared to mak...

Nate and Michelle Webb were married at Sedgely Place in Greene, Maine, on Nov. 8. The 17th-century inn was filled with about 70 guests, including...

Former Haines public health nurse Vera Smith turned 100 on Nov. 24. She received cards from the White House and from former Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell,...

Researcher Rachel Wheat, who started tracking eagles from Haines with satellite technology two years ago, said she’s had a half-dozen close calls...

The 20th Alaska Bald Eagle Festival was a success, drawing 303 guests, up from 271 in 2013, said American Bald Eagle Foundation executive director...

Christmas lights already strung around town are a welcome sight. It’s been gray around here since June and the weatherman says we’re in for more....

American Bald Eagle Foundation staff last week returned to the wild a boreal owl they nursed back from a “severe state of shock.” Resident Sarah...

Monday, Nov. 10 A Tower Road resident reported $60 worth of hamburger meat missing from her freezer. An officer investigated. A person came to the...

The eagle-watchers are here. Special guests – including two rehabilitated eagles from the Anchorage area to be released into the wild – will...

The American Bald Eagle Foundation has named Carol Clifton as its 2014 Artist of the Year. Clifton’s work will be displayed in the foundation’s me...

Monday, Nov. 3 An officer served a civil packet on a Haines business owner. An officer recovered a bicycle from a ditch near Kathleen Street. The...

Chilkat Valley voters will cast ballots Tuesday in a statewide election that will decide the town’s representatives to the Alaska Legislature, and...

ED&D Inc./Haines Cable TV/Radio Shack Dealer was named Business of the Year by the Haines Chamber of Commerce at the group’s annual meeting and...

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

Besides a spot to stage 62 mounted game specimens received from a Juneau natural history display, the American Bald Eagle Foundation also is looking...

The Haines Borough should scrap hiring an economic development director and hire a grant writer instead. There’s been no public outcry for another d...

When construction began on our new Aspen Hotel, we had to quickly move our apple trees from Aspen’s building site. The new owner was gracious to...

A private-public partnership to restore the Chilkoot Lumber Co. dock as an ore terminal was floated as a potential model at the Haines Port...

Haines Borough voters will elect a mayor and two new assembly members and decide four ballot propositions in Tuesday’s municipal election....

American Bald Eagle Foundation founder Dave Olerud says his organization has been gifted a significant attraction, but it may take closing a section o...

Dr. Dan Hart retired from his raptor curator position at the American Bald Eagle Foundation. Chloe Goodson is the foundation’s new raptor curator....

Two years after government officials and mining industry representatives from Alaska and Canada convened in Haines, a local group is organizing a...

The Haines-based Alaska Arts Confluence recently elected new president Michael Marks to its board. Former president Carol Tuynman stepped down to...