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Cole Johnson was born to Crystalyn-Gunsi Lemieux and Basil Johnson at 9:45 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 19 at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. Cole...

You are the "Bear Expert " who tried to present a skeleton of a legally-harvested brown bear as a bear killed by a poacher in your last article to...

As the season’s first snow fell in town last week, four car accidents were reported to the Haines Borough Police, including a four-vehicle accident...

Due to commissioner absences and a string of communication hiccups with borough staff, the public safety commission hasn’t met since May, possibly...

An Anchorage architect presented a conceptual plan for a new $20.5 million public safety building to the Haines Borough planning commission on Nov....

The Chilkat Valley Historical Society (CVHS) has awarded $2,100 in grants to five applicants so far in an effort to promote electric fence use in the...

Agnes Theresa Armour died on her birthday, Saturday, Oct. 16 at the age of 94 after complications from a stroke. As her health declined, she moved to... Full story

While many policy makers and residents lament the lack of good-paying year-round jobs in the Chilkat Valley, most don’t address the fact that some...

A group of Haines residents are working toward forming a “Friends of the Haines Police” nonprofit with the aim to highlight and support local...

Haines Borough residents have reported fewer bear-related issues this summer than last when dozens of bears were killed by police and residents. The H...

Residents should think twice about what they leave in their vehicles while they’re in town. At least two people have had their wallet and purse...

Concerning the recent termination of the potentially dangerous bear by Haines police chief, it’s a tempest in a teapot if ever there was one. The...

After I was elected to the Haines Borough Assembly, the mayor of Bethel, Alaska, told me, “When you run for office, you have all kinds of plans to...

Alaska Administrative Code 5AAC 92.410 and 92.420 permits the taking of wildlife in defense of life or property.  In Haines we have Chief Scott,...

The local wildlife trooper and an Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist will train Haines police later this month on proper hazing methods...

The unwarranted killing of the museum apple-eating black bear recently by two local officials was a disgrace.  Our chief of police, currently under...

The sister of Joseph Clayton, a 48-year-old Oregon man that went missing in Juneau on Aug. 20, thinks that Clayton might have boarded a ferry to...

Credit Blake Ward with finding Asher Jimenez’s lost mountain bike. Blake was throwing a Frisbee with his girlfriend on the lot in front of the Presb...