Two local heli-ski companies are asking the Haines Borough to temporarily open nearly 10,000 acres of terrain closed to the sport for a month-long...

The Haines Borough Assembly agreed last week to hear an appeal of a Feb. 13 planning commission decision denying a conditional use permit for a...

Scott Sundberg, co-owner of Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures, is appealing a Feb. 13 Haines Borough Planning Commission decision denying his...

Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures co-owner Scott Sundberg once again is applying for a permit to establish a heliport near Chilkat Lake Road....

Unseasonably warm weather has local heli-ski operators and backcountry skiers biting their nails about snow conditions and the future of the skiing se...

Fifty-four days with illegal trespass violations during 78 days of operation in 2012 and 2013 are adequate proof that the local heli-ski industry need...

A Haines helicopter skiing company has agreed to pay more than $21,000 in fines and fees for flying on federal lands closed to the activity 54 times d...

I would like to thank Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures for sponsoring our Klondike Road Relay team. We wouldn’t have had so much fun and...

Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott is proposing the borough ramp up its monitoring of heli-ski tour companies and stiffen fines. Scott will ask the...

The CVN headline May 2 implied there were only six heli-skiing violations in 2013. The actual number of violations is unknown because the borough...

The Haines Borough fined Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures (SEABA) $500 last week for operating on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property...

The Haines Borough recently leveled a combined $1,200 in fines against two heli-skiing companies for six permit violations in March and April.   The...

A representative for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said the agency’s law enforcement sector is investigating whether to take punitive action a...

An unexpected helicopter landing at a Mosquito Lake lodge prompted confusion and irritation among area residents Monday. A Last Frontier Air Ventures... Full story

I want to apologize to Mosquito Lake residents who were surprised and upset about a helicopter landing at the Funny Farm on Monday. First, we... Full story

An avalanche in the Kicking Horse area triggered a “false alarm” Friday when a Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures (SEABA) employee called... Full story

An avalanche in the Kicking Horse area triggered a “false alarm” Friday when a Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures (SEABA) employee called... Full story

Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures (SEABA) co-owner Scott Sundberg this week confirmed his company was operating on Bureau of Land Management...

Due to survey results and testimony at its March 14 meeting, the Haines Borough Planning Commission is dropping discussion of a potential rezone in th...

A photographer who survived the accident that killed heli-skiing guide Christian Cabanilla on March 3 said his group’s plunge hundreds of feet off...

A 34-year-old guide was killed and two clients were injured in a March 3 backcountry heli-skiing accident near Haines.   Christian Arcadio...

The March 2012 deaths of a heli-ski guide and client near Haines are profiled in a film currently making the rounds on the festival circuit in the...

Citing Alaska Heliskiing’s 2012 safety record, Haines Borough Manager Mark Earnest cut the company’s skier-day allocation by 25 percent for the...

Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures and Alaska Mountain Guides representatives championed the positive economic impacts of the heli-ski industry...

Alaska Heliskiing broke state law, Haines Borough code and its own safety plan during a season that included the deaths of a client and guide, but...