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The Haines Borough School Board will hold an “informal non-retention hearing” starting 6 p.m. June 28 to consider the dismissal of kindergarten...

Kyle Fossman led the Haines High School boys’ basketball teams to state championships in 2008 and 2010 and may hold the school record for career...

Haines Borough interim manager Brad Ryan last week released his $12.3 million draft budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which includes cutting the...

School board members started discussing cuts that might be forced two years from now during a budget meeting March 29, where interim superintendent Ri...

One year after the Haines Borough School Board committed to $125,000 in high-tech classroom upgrades and $75,000 annually in lease fees, it has...

Winter can grow long in the tooth in March and April. The calendar marks the start of spring but Alaskans who have been snowed on in May know the seas...

Chilkat Valley Preschool volunteer parents ran the concession stand at the Dick Hotch Memorial Basketball Tournament. This was an exciting community...

Two applications for public convenience beer and wine licenses in Haines have touched off a discussion about whether the municipality would have too...

Anticipating a 17-student drop in enrollment, the Haines Borough School District is projecting a $269,000 shortfall in its $4.93 million budget for...

Mercy Evelyn Nash was born to parents Amy and Song Nash on Feb. 29 at Seattle’s Ballard Hospital. She weighed 7 lbs., 4 oz., and measured 18.5...

Haines School Board members will get their first look at a draft budget for the coming year at a committee meeting set for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the hi...

Silver Bow Construction of Juneau will return to Haines in warmer weather to again look at Haines School’s leaky roof, a puzzle that has defied...

Anthony Habra, who worked the last six years heading up small-town school districts in Michigan, this week signed an agreement for a three-year...

The Haines Borough School District could have a new superintendent hired in just a few days. Three finalists for the job are scheduled to arrive here...

The 2016 Dick Hotch Memorial Basketball Tournament is set for March 3-6. Tournament organizer Stuart DeWitt said this week he has eight teams...

Following about five hours of closed-door meetings to “compare and contrast” candidates, the Haines Borough School Board on Wednesday narrowed to...

Starting next year, the Haines School will return to its traditional 8:25 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. schedule. The staff decision, approved last week by the...

Twenty-one people have applied to be superintendent of the Haines Borough School District, but the public will get to know the identities of only a...

The Haines Borough School District’s finances aren’t as rosy as some might think, interim superintendent Rich Carlson said this week. Carlson,...

About 85 swimmers are expected to compete at the annual Winter Games North swim meet this weekend in Haines. Jim Green, president of the Haines Dolphi...

Micah Charlton McMahan was born to parents Emily and Adam McMahan of Haines at 3:48 a.m. on Jan. 7. He was born at a birth center in Nashville, Tenn....

The Haines Borough School Board last week heard the district is carrying a general fund balance of $906,000. Carlson said the amount was “hefty,...

Gifts of more than $30,000 to organizations around town in December capped $1.39 million in community donations made by resident Lucy Harrell in...