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I recently wrote two obituaries that make reference to the City of Haines and Haines Borough. The City ceased to exist when the two governments...

Annette Kreitzer knows a little something about the housing market in Haines. Just as she was moving here, she faced a housing crunch of her own....

For the first time Haines High School offered a Certified Nurses Aide course to students. Beginning in March, high school students Malia...

The Southeast Alaska State Fair board announced Tuesday that it moved Juneau Drag’s start time from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The change came about a month...

The assembly’s Government Affairs and Services Committee unanimously recommended allocating $125,000 to the Haines Economic Development Corporation...

The future is uncertain for the nearly two-acre property where the historic Standard Oil fuel depot once stood. Delta Western began dismantling the...

In an effort to blunt the effects of a roughly 16% percent increase in property tax assessments this year due to the implementation of a new mass...

Thank you CVN for reporting on the protective order for domestic violence served on a Haines elected official. As a community, we need to ask...

The Haines Borough Assembly Tuesday directed a committee to consider lobbying Alaska Power and Telephone to resume the printing of its phone book...

A special election that will ask voters whether the planning commission should be elected will be held June 6. Tom Morphet and nine other sponsors of...

It’s truth or consequences time for the little .75-acre lot at the corner of 3rd Avenue and Main Street in Haines. For more than ten years it sat...

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...

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...

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

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...