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Area-wide policing fails, assembly misses deadline
The proposition to allow police services boroughwide will not appear on the October ballot, after the assembly failed to vote on the ordinance in...
Wind storm beaches boats, causes power outage
A wind storm last weekend toppled a tree on Beach Road and broke lines on boats in Letnikof Cove, se...
Policing ballot prop stalls
A charter change for areawide policing might not make it to the October ballot. The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 to hold a third public hearing...
Assembly reaches impasse on staff attrition
On Tuesday, the Haines Borough Assembly met to discuss the merits of eliminating or consolidating vacating staff positions in response to statewide...
Rogers only filer for two assembly seats
With less than one week before the filing deadline, Paul Rogers is the only candidate registered to run for one of two open seats on the Haines...
Wildlife trooper to leave Haines
Alaska State Wildlife Trooper Wallace Kirksey is set to leave Haines for another station in October after just five months in the Haines post. The...
Man stabbed during 'horseplay'
The Haines Borough police are completing a report on an accidental stabbing of a man on Aug. 5 at a vocational rental on Mud Bay Road. The incident...
Thank you Arjun Raman!
Your letter to the editor in last week’s CVN (Aug. 8) eloquently stated many of the problems with police expansion. Police expansion in the Haines...
Committee rehashes fund ordinance
At a finance committee meeting Tuesday, assembly members Brenda Josephson and Tom Morphet rehashed a debate to reallocate sales tax revenue funds...
Borough Briefs
KHNS receives borough funding The Haines Borough Assembly unanimously approved a $20,000 allocation Thursday to KHNS in the wake of stripped state...
Police expansion becomes intimidation
A standard interrogation technique is to repeatedly ask the same question. The classic Milgram and Zimbardo experiments demonstrate that under...
Holiday spirit in summer a success
Once again the good folks of Haines did not disappoint, when we put the call out to “Help Us, Help Haines.” We here at The Salvation Army would...
Borough staff shakeup: 3 employees to leave, chief looks to Wrangell
Two Haines Borough department heads and one administrative employee are vacating their positions within the next month, and a fourth department head...
Boroughwide policing back on the table
The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 to advance a charter amendment that would again put the question of boroughwide policing on the October ballot....
Voters to decide on tour tax
The Haines Borough assembly voted 5-1 to place a proposition on the fall ballot that would reallocate one-half percent of tax proceeds distributed to...
Should the assembly be in charge of police chief?
The assembly voted 5-1 on July 18 to elevate the Haines Borough chief of police position to a borough officer. That would put the chief directly...
Borough Briefs
KHNS asks assembly for funding KHNS has requested $20,000 from the borough assembly in the wake Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget vetoes that eliminate...
Assembly again will consider expanded police service area
Policing outside of the townsite could be on the October ballot once again, one year after Mud Bay, Lutak and Haines Highway voters rejected raising...
Chief Scott up for reappointment
by Jenna Kunze The Public Safety Commission this week recommended the borough manager reappoint police chief Heath Scott, whose three-year contract wi...
July 4th draws crowd
Hot, sunny weather drew crowds to Haines' Independence Day festivities. The day started with a hotly...
Police back to full strength
The Haines Borough Police Department returned to full strength when mayor Jan Hill swore in Michael...
Martin's modern Tlingit artwork shines at the Haines Sheldon Museum
The Haines Sheldon Museum has received a $1,000 Art Acquisition Fund Award from Museums Alaska and the Rasmuson Foundation to acquire “Raven...
Assembly approves budget, slight hike to property taxes
The Haines Borough Assembly set its 2020 operating budget on Tuesday, adopting a significantly lower property tax mill rate than the manager’s...
Committee reconsiders seasonal sales, alcohol tax
A 3 percent sales tax on Alcohol and Marijuana, a five-cent fuel tax, and a seasonal sales tax were discussed at a special finance committee meeting...
After DA dismisses assault charges, man pulls knife on woman and children
For the second time in two months, a 40-year-old transient man has been arrested in Haines on charges of assault. On Tuesday, the man allegedly brandi...