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Meet the assembly candidates
Five candidates are vying for three seats on the assembly in the upcoming, Oct. 4 borough election. Early voting opens at the borough office on...
Haines Herring: Fake news for a reaL Town
On Sept. 12, Ethiopia celebrated Enkutatash, the country’s new year. While Ethiopians around the world welcomed 2016, it was just another rainy...
Planning commission candidate profiles
For the first time in Haines' history, the planning commission will be elected by the people...
AP&T asks to raise electricity rates by 25%, deadline for public comment Friday
Haines customers could face an up to 25% jump in their electricity bills if the state approves...
GASC Meeting Briefs
At this month’s Government and Services Committee Meeting, several ordinances were moved to be heard at the next assembly meeting on Sept. 12,...
Auto incident in Skagway caused areawide outage
On Thursday, Aug. 31, all the lights in Haines and Skagway went out in the middle of the day during a power outage. Haines gets its hydropower from...
Duly Noted
Fletcher Sebens got married Aug. 26 in Haines, at the Chilkat Inlet Retreat owned by Greg Bigsby and Beth McCreedy. The lucky lady is Adela Pastor,...
AP&T asks to raise electricity rates by 25%, deadline for public comment Friday
Haines customers could face an up to 25% jump in their electricity bills if the state approves Alaska Power Company’s bid to increase energy rates,...
Residents fume over property tax assessments, plot fixes
Residents angry over sharp rises in some property tax assessments continue to scheme ways to undo...
Wilks to take over as museum director
After three years of operating without a director, the Sheldon Museum has finally filled the...
Assembly boosts pay for itself and mayor
The Haines Borough Assembly voted overwhelmingly to boost pay for itself and for the mayor at an...
Boost senior tax exemption
A lot of people in the borough have had their property tax increased, including me. I see one way to claw some of that tax burden back. This October,...
Tax appeal instructions are faulty
Why does the Haines Borough instruct property owners to invest time and money into obtaining an appraisal if the Board of Equalization (BOE) is not...
Assembly Briefs 8-22
Police chief regrets Several assembly members expressed concern about the announced resignation of police chief Heath Scott. Scott announced earlier...
Lutak Dock comment deadline extended
The comment period for a federal permit for the Lutak Dock reconstruction has been extended by two weeks. Haines Borough is seeking to rebuild the...
'Like Christmas': Haines students return to school
On Tuesday morning at 8 a.m., Haines students poured out of yellow school buses and made their way...
Mixed decision in Palmer Project appeal
The state's Department of Environmental Conservation made what environmental and tribal groups calle...
Lutak Road work resumes after cease-and-desist
Work on a gravel storage site on Lutak Road resumed after Southeast Road Builders paid a $600 fee...
Candidates set for Oct. borough election
Former Mayor Jan Hill and newspaperman Tom Morphet will face off in the October mayoral election, and a slew of new candidates filed to run for open s...
Lutak Road project unacceptable
The recent increased truck traffic along Lutak Road by Southeast Road Builders to export sand and gravel from the Haines Borough via the Lutak Dock...
Transportation Sec. Buttigieg makes historic visit to Haines
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg got a taste of the challenges of traveling in Southeast A...
Haines bears get a taste for carrots
When Leigh Horner slipped out of her house on the outskirts of Fort Seward last week for a Mai Tai...
Borough election deadline approaches, Morphet files for mayoral race
There are still plenty of open seats in the upcoming Haines Borough elections with just days to go...
Land use rules shouldn't be applied capriciously
The Haines Borough’s land use rules are internally conflicted and too often arbitrarily applied. This can be remedied with some simple changes to...
CVN should investigate tax assessments
Regarding the Aug. 3 CVN story ‘Borough defends tax assessments after appeals,’ I appeal to this newspaper, please find out what’s going on and...
