Chilkat Valley News - Serving Haines and Klukwan, Alaska since 1966

Monday, Sept. 13 A Fourth Avenue caller reported a friend associated with someone who may have drugs. A caller reported a dump truck speeding in a...

  Monday, Sept. 6 A caller reported two bears walking up Second Avenue, north of Main Street at 2:30 a.m. Officer responded and found the bears...

Volunteers and some residents who live near Chilkoot River are calling on law enforcement officials to start ticketing bear-viewers and motorists who...

The state is looking at shoulder improvements or more asphalt at the intersection of Front Street and Lutak Road after a motorcycle crashed there...

Monday, Aug. 16 A caller reported a canoe overturned at 19 Mile. The owner was located and said people had flipped out of it and the boat was empty,...

The Chilkoot Indian Association closed its offices for two weeks starting July 26 following an unresolved council election and council divisions...

I would like thank everyone who helped with the beach volleyball. Tyler Scovill, Tammy, Lindsey and Natalie Jobbins. Nathan Narum was a great help...

The state has terminated an aquaculture group’s contract for the Lutak king salmon enhancement project, where recent accidents are pushing up pe...

A $50,000 settlement has been reached between the Environmental Protection Agency and a Lutak fish processor. Chilkoot Fish and Caviar agreed to the...

About 100 apple trees brought to Haines in May may be planted on the south side of Main Street between Third Avenue and Old Haines Highway, along the...

The death of 220,000 king salmon smolt in three years has led the state to re-examine its contract with the regional aquaculture association. An...

Residents are excited that a hunk of metal found on Lutak Road last fall might be a meteorite, but two area scientists think it’s more likely a...

The Hammer Museum would like to thank Lutak Lumber, Haines Homebuilding, Haislers’ Hardware and Olerud’s grocery for contributions that...

Monday, June 28 Police responded after a caller reported a person broke into their Fourth Avenue residence and was breaking things. A caller reported...

I recently learned that I am being blamed for placing logs and boulders which have blocked public access to the property known as Picture Point. I do...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will return to a spot on the Mount Ripinsky hillside to remove a small amount of contaminated soil remaining from a...

Our trails need help. Before the ascent of Patagonia and the remarkable marketing of the outdoors, there were relatively few hikers in Haines, and...

Seventeen miles of outlying roads will get a coat of chip-seal surface in the next six weeks, as the regional maintenance crew from the state...

The state will resurface a 100-foot section of new roadway near 1.2 Mile Lutak Road after cracks opened in the asphalt there last winter. Located on...

Monday, June 14 A person reported fuel from his vehicle was siphoned out while the car was parked at the airport. A person reported a male was...

A committee appointed to develop new pedestrian signs for the borough has determined 13 locations for them and as many as 21 landmarks they’ll...

The Haines Borough recently spent $7,500 sending three leaders on a lobbying trip to Washington, D.C. The money was well spent, according to mayor...