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At separate meetings last week, commercial fishermen and Haines Borough officials identified potential funding sources for the harbor expansion...

Haines Borough officials are organizing a community response to a planned reduction in ferry service that tourism director Leslie Ross describes as...

The state Department of Transportation will hold public meetings in Haines and Klukwan Oct. 28 on the draft revised environmental assessment of...

Tim McDonough and Derek Poinsette were elected last week to the State’s Fish and Wildlife Upper Lynn Canal Advisory Committee. Five other seats on...

Plans to clearcut about 900 acres of old-growth forest near the Klehini River moved one step closer to fruition last week when the state denied the...

Afraid of public speaking? That’s okay, local author and historian Dan Henry likes a challenge. Henry will lead a storytelling workshop beginning...

Charlie Lou Katzeek was born at 4:23 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, at Bartlett Regional Hospital to parents Hannah Blilie and Tom Katzeek. She weighed seven...

On behalf of the Foundation for the Chilkat Center for the Arts, I would like to thank all the performers who made the Off Off Off Broadway show so...

The upper Lynn Canal subsistence moose hunt has started with a bang -- or rather, a lot of them. Eighteen moose, including one sublegal, were taken...

A closure of subsistence and sport fishing in Lynn Canal last spring apparently had its desired effect. The Department of Fish and Game has met its...

Monday, Sept. 21 A caller reported someone stole her purse and phone at a local bar. The woman said she didn’t want to press charges, but just...

Biologists last spring counted 1,895 Steller sea lions at Sea Lion Rock, the highest number since systematic counts started there in 2004. That...

Following four years of fundraising, a local domestic violence response group has signed a one-year lease for the establishment of a safe house in...

Lauren Rutland is the new Haines Dolphins swim coach. She and husband Ryan Rutland moved to Haines from outside Saginaw, Texas, with their three dogs,...

Lauren Rutland is the new Haines Dolphins swim coach. She and husband Ryan Rutland moved to Haines from outside Saginaw, Texas, with their three dogs,...

Commercial fishermen who’ve seen the value of their catch drop with changes in prices from processors are taking a double hit this year because...

Sue Libenson this week attended the State Department-sponsored Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience...

September 11 is Patriot’s Day, declared to commemmorate the terrorist attack that occurred Sept. 11, 2001. The American Legion Lynn Canal Post #12...

A third Haines resident has filed for Haines Borough Assembly. Tresham Gregg turned in his papers minutes before the borough offices closed Wednesday...

Lynn Canal Counseling Services officials said anticipated funding cuts are behind its decision to turn over its operation to Southeast Alaska...

The American Legion Lynn Canal Post #12 would like to thank all who helped with its donation raffle and to those who made donations to the Legion...

Bryan Joseph Hinderberger and Joanna Jeanne Lende were married Saturday aboard the Haines-Skagway Fast Ferry M/V Fairweather, with Fort Seward as the...

A decision at last week’s Haines Chamber of Commerce board meeting that prompted a prominent member to quit the group has resurrected questions of...

Brianna Phillips and Matt Baarson were married July 11 at Letnikof Cove. Matt’s uncle and godfather Bob Franz officiated. Parents of the bride are...