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

I’d like to thank Jake Bell and Allen Jones for all the work they have done at my house. Jake got the wood sorted and put in my woodshed, dumped an...

What will a $19.5 million grant buy you? It will buy you a half of a harbor without a single, legitimate public hearing. What is next? Probably a...

My hope is that the borough will use as much restraint when it comes to changing the rules on garbage in Haines, as some of us in creating it. My...

What an amazing community we have in Haines! We’d like to thank our friends and family who have showered us with encouragement, love and support...

You wake up one morning, stumble into the bathroom, and flip the light switch. Nothing happens – no light. After your morning constitutional, you...

I would like to reiterate Rebekah McCoy’s sentiments from last week’s paper. I have personally met all the Haines police officers and find them...

On Oct. 10, which was also Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I was really down and out and the reason is a smokehouse, which has a lot of history of caring...

I am honored and grateful to have won a seat on the borough assembly, especially considering the high voter turnout and crowded field of fine...

I would like to publicly thank the Haines Borough Police Department and the officers who responded when I needed them. These men put their lives on...

The harbor expansion project is a blatant example of government waste. This project is so poorly conceived, designed and funded, only a government...

A little over a year ago, for the first time in our almost twenty years of service in the Chilkat Valley, the Hospice of Haines board faced a budget...

On behalf of Kimberly Chambers’ family, I would like to thank the American Legion Auxiliary for setting up the Legion Hall so wonderfully, and...

To all voters in the Haines Borough, We need to make a change in our incumbent Haines Borough Assembly members. Six candidates running for two open...

As we continue to explore and evaluate the mineral potential of the Palmer Project, we are making significant investments in understanding the local e...

On behalf of the Haines Senior Center and the special people we serve, I would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to the Chilkat Valley...

Do the people of Haines see what’s happening with the pristine waters of your gorgeous, untouched coastline? Little by little Haines is being...

I wish that KHNS would stop calling itself a good radio station, it isn’t. It’s a GREAT radio station. I have been an avid listener for nearly 24...

Our volunteers for the People Mover Cart down at the dock are the BEST! Thanks for being very dependable and friendly: Bob Budke, Jerry Blood, Janet...

Alaska Arts Confluence says thank you to all who so generously give of their time, money and emotional support to others. Your positive energy and...

Take a closer look at the candidates. Qualities to consider when choosing assembly members: CREATIVE - Will they bring new ideas, and creative...

“Planning Commission dips toe into harbor issue”; I love this headline, hallelujah! While one would have thought the planning commission would...

In a recent letter, John Hirsh compares sediment from “pulverizing glaciers” and landslide debris to potential impacts of a mine at Glacier...

Southeast Senior Services (SESS), a division of Catholic Community Service (CCS), would like to thank the Chilkoot Indian Association for their...

To equate natural processes with a short-term targeted extraction and transport of acid-containing ore bodies and to suggest that this will not have...

Another really nasty aspect of the harbor project is that where they are going to dig up the ocean floor (dredge) is where the sewer outfall pipe has...