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Few spots remaining for KCIBR relay race
The Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay opened for registration March 15 and is already nearly full. Race organizers are breathing a sigh of...
CIV to consult with feds on Lutak Dock
The Chilkat Indian Village in February invoked its right to consult with the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (MARAD) on the...
Business Briefs
Larsons sell Alpenglow The wood-fired pizza restaurant Alpenglow has a new owner. Nolan Woodard, a former guide, carpenter and food industry worker, n...
Legislators, governor to get pay boost
Wrangell Sentinel Alaska legislators will get a 67% pay raise next January — from $50,000 to $84,000 a year — and the governor and state...
Bears head to state for the first time in 22 years
The Haines Glacier Bears girls' basketball team played their best basketball when the game was on...
Wayward snowshoe returns to Talia's
A single snowshoe that went missing from a Main Street storefront for more than two years...
Planning commission to look at selling downtown lot
To allow opportunity for more public comment, the Haines Borough Planning Commission delayed a vote until April on classifying for sale the...
Effort to elect planning commission advances
Tom Morphet submitted an application for a ballot initiative petition this week that would require planning commissioners to be elected rather than...
Assembly approves $57K brush clearing project
The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 to spend $57,000 to clear brush about town in an effort to reduce “bear hiding areas.” The project will...
Residents call for assembly to clarify events prohibition
Following a request for action from Mud Bay residents, the Haines Borough Assembly will wait for borough manager Annette Kreitzer to clarify a June le...
David Simmons book published posthumously
When David Simmons went missing in a December 2020 landslide on Beach Road, friend and neighbor Joe...
Sawmill property auction postponed
A public foreclosure auction of 24 acres of former Chilkoot Lumber Company land adjacent to a 530-foot dock was postponed this week following a...
PFD hearing brings out widely differing viewpoints
When Jan Kanitz of Juneau and Antonia Lenard of Eagle River testified before a legislative committee last Saturday about personal responsibility and...
Residents' medical care delayed due to backlogs
From months-long waits for food stamps, to refraining from seeking medical treatment, a statewide backlog of federal aid programs continues to impact...
Police link Origami Bandit to stolen bills
Although charges have yet to be filed, police have connected a suspect to the Haines Senior Center...
Skagway assembly okays agreement to ship ore with Yukon
The Skagway Borough Assembly unanimously rejected two proposals from Harold Jahn’s Prosperity Investments Alaska to decommission the...
Ferry system management says it's working to fix hiring problems
The Alaska Marine Highway System is working faster to hire more crew, trying to fix problems that slowed the process so much the past four years that...
Little piggy wanders off
This little piggy went wee, wee, wee all the way down Mosquito Lake Road. On Sunday, Mosquito Lake...
Storm snowfall nears record
Last week’s snow storm marked the fourth highest snowfall in a 48-hour period after 21.9 inches of snow fell in two days at Haines weather station...
House committee starts work on PFD legislation
A state House committee last week held its first hearing on a bill intended to settle the Legislature’s biggest annual political battle: The amount...