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The Southeast Alaska State Fair is working to reschedule Juneau Drag to a later time slot at the fair after the board received opposition from some...

Property assessments went up by an average of 17% this year as the borough works to implement a new mass appraisal system—borough manager Annette...

Mayor Douglas Olerud will compose a letter pending assembly approval that will be sent to Gov. Michael Dunleavy with questions about the state’s pla...

I was disturbed and saddened to hear of this scheduled event for this year's annual Fair. It most surely does not represent the type of show a...

The Haines Borough School District recently hired six new teachers and an assistant principal but superintendent Roy Getchell said this week the...

Plans for a playground memorializing former Haines School teacher Jenae Larson have hit an unforeseen financial hurdle. The project has raised about...

Last week, the CVN covered the borough assembly’s vote to spend $57,750 for brush-clearing activities to eliminate “bear hiding areas.” Since...

The Chilkat Indian Village in February invoked its right to consult with the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (MARAD) on the...

To allow opportunity for more public comment, the Haines Borough Planning Commission delayed a vote until April on classifying for sale the...

Tom Morphet submitted an application for a ballot initiative petition this week that would require planning commissioners to be elected rather than...

The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 to spend $57,000 to clear brush about town in an effort to reduce “bear hiding areas.” The project will...

Following a request for action from Mud Bay residents, the Haines Borough Assembly will wait for borough manager Annette Kreitzer to clarify a June le...

A public foreclosure auction of 24 acres of former Chilkoot Lumber Company land adjacent to a 530-foot dock was postponed this week following a...

The Skagway Borough Assembly unanimously rejected two proposals from Harold Jahn’s Prosperity Investments Alaska to decommission the...

Serving as a Haines assembly member or other on boards is public service. It is a selfless act by citizens in a democracy to represent the voices of...

A Canadian developer with a murky track record says he is eyeing Haines as the site of an ore terminal that would serve “several” Alaska and...

“Plastic is a wonderful product because it lasts. It’s also a really horrible product because it lasts,” Haines Friends of Recycling board chair...

The next phase of the Lutak Dock progressive design-build replacement project was approved unanimously by the Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday....

I do not want a ski lift at the Mosquito Lake School because I live there. I do not want to live next to an amusement park ski lift. If you are...

Former resident and tattoo artist Steve “Stevie G.” Geanoulis has died. Geanoulis worked for Erin McGinnis when they opened Pair-A-Dice Tattoo...

A Canadian developer with a murky track record says he is eyeing Haines as the site of an ore terminal that would serve “several” Alaska and...

From the practical to the philosophical, current and former elected officials weighed in on how assembly members can survive and thrive in their...