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Upper Lynn Canal saw 16-20% decline in bear population in 2020
The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee voted in support of the reduced brown bear harvest limit the Alaska Department of Fish and Game...
State denies Virg-Ins assistance for home destroyed in landslide
Steve and Sarah Virg-In's home was one of the five in Haines that the state has categorized...
ADFG reduces bear harvest limit
By Ceri Godinez The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) has reduced the harvest limit for the spring 2021 brown bear hunt to five, including no...
Beach Road resident returns to his home
Phil Pink, 71, did not sign up to live off the grid when he moved from Florida to his cabin at the...
Lynn Canal gillnetters face another year of conservative management restrictions
The Haines gillnet fleet will, once again, see a conservative set of management restrictions for the 2021 season, according to a Feb. 8 press release...
State proposes Baby Brown timber sale again
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources is again putting out to bid the old-growth Baby Brown and Glacier Side timber sale 37 miles north of...
AMHS draft summer schedule proposes increase from 2020
Haines would receive four to five ferries per week between May 1 and Sept. 30 under the Alaska Department of Transportation (DOT)’s proposed summer...
Assembly makes plan to address Haines' bear problem
The Haines Borough Assembly’s Commerce Committee began chipping away at a plan to address the borough’s bear problem at a meeting Tuesday. The...
This week in history
Jan. 1971 The usually booming local timber industry is in the throes of problems. Friday evening the...
Haines receives massive grant to expand behavioral health services post-disaster
Local agencies and partners at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau have two weeks to spend an unprecedented $1.4 million the state is channeling... Full story
Borough to solicit Lutak Dock development proposal from AIDEA
The Haines Borough Assembly asked interim manager Alekka Fullerton to reach out to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) rega...
Assembly Briefs
Manager hiring process to begin Dec. 21 The Haines Borough Assembly has agreed to engage the services of consultant Lenise Henderson-Fontenot, who...
Duly Noted
It has been an overwhelming, exhausting and tragic week in Haines. As I am writing this column I pray that by the time we print we do not receive more...
Some regional resources in search for missing residents sent home
Regional assets assisting in the search for 30-year-old David Simmons and 23-year-old Jenae Larson,... Full story
Be on the lookout for scammers in the wake of natural disasters, state officials say
Natural disasters like the widespread flooding and landslides in Haines this week can bring out the... Full story
Evacuees leave homes with few possessions
Your house is flooding, what do you save?-a classic hypothetical many in Haines thought they'd... Full story
Committee asks borough to step up bear-attractant law enforcement
The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee (ULCFGAC) is asking the Haines Borough to address the local bear problem through stronger enforc...
Arts Outlook
Chilkat Center productions on standby Two productions scheduled to take place at the Chilkat Center in December are on standby as state and local heal...
Lynn Canal Community Players launch first production since pandemic onset
For many, 2020 has offered few opportunities for laughter. Tresham Gregg and the Lynn Canal...
Fish and Game advisory group asks state, BLM to restrict heliskiing
The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee (ULCFGAC) Monday voted 6-2 to ask state and federal land managers to restrict heliskiing in the...
Blizzard sets daily snowfall record
Last weekend's blizzard caused the Haines Borough School District to close Monday after 16 inches...
Land swap approved for Beach Road couple
Wendie Marriott and Bern Savikko lost their house — and a forested acre with a Lynn Canal view — in the Beach Road landslide two years ago. Now...
Assembly ends heliski map committee work
The assembly voted down the heliski map committee’s request to continue work for another year. At a meeting earlier this month, the map committee vo...
Correction
The caption under the photo on page 3 in last week’s paper reported that the American Legion Lynn Canal Post #12 gave two awards on Oct. 21...
