I gleaned some impressions of the United States during seven weeks traveling around Europe. Europeans sometimes view Americans as uncultured,...

Monday night I held a stranger in my arms as police told her an important person in her life just died. Sometimes journalists are too close to the...

The Great Alaska Craft Beer and Homebrew Festival is a credit to its organizers and an event that boosts the town in a number of ways. To keep it...

Criticisms I’ve heard from business owners about downtown revitalization include (a) that Main Street is dead, and can’t be saved, and...

Some readers last week questioned our publication of a story explaining why Haines Borough Assembly meetings no longer were being broadcast, as well...

If recent history is any indication, balancing the Haines Borough budget this year will involve some combination of spending reserves and increasing...

An old-time Alaskan who recently opened a retail business in Haines told me we should get rid of the planning commission and its laws. Planning...

The Haines Borough Assembly meets as a committee 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to consider businesses operating out of modified trailers downtown. Three such...

It’s vital for our community to have people willing to open businesses and a borough government that strives to help them, but assistance...

Ice creepers always seemed to me designed for the elderly or feeble. Then I fell last week three times on a single trip home. Aging, they say, is...

Two weeks’ vacation was enough time for the editor to clean out the cubbies of his desk, unearthing scraps of notes, mementos, and bits of...

A remark at last week’s "Community Matters" meeting, that our town doesn’t anticipate problems well, and tends to address...

Over in Skagway, a tour operator is seeking a zoo permit to create one of the few, great Alaska attractions the town doesn’t already offer...

It’s impossible to argue that the Port Chilkoot Dock project is a great step forward for our town. In a world of cities building jetties and...

The Emblem Club convention and Canadian Thanksgiving holiday made the weekend busy, but it could have been busier. Poor fishing prompted many anglers...

Campaign advertising by the Republican Party is the first in memory during a municipal election.The party’s district leadership placed an ad in...

    It’s right for the Haines Borough to re-evaluate its tourism promotion program with the departure of director Lori Stepansky, who...

If the Haines Borough is able to set aside Picture Point, it’s more likely to be through luck than leadership. The owner of the property that&rs...

Should the Haines Borough adopt a bear ordinance? Let’s review some history. Bears in town have always been an issue, but their traffic became...

A big, musical production by Lynn Canal Community Players is always a treat for the community, but the early timing of "South Pacific" this...

Don’t miss the 100th Anniversary Community Potluck Picnic-Street Party-Portrait Shoot! Bring a lawn chair. 1 p.m. Sunday. YARD SALE: Saturday 8...

"Every walk is a sort of crusade," wrote Henry David Thoreau. "We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of...

The banner project of the Haines Centennial Committee is a slam dunk. These colorful flags brighten and help define our downtown core while keeping...

The Chilkat Valley News lost a good friend this week. Mike Saunders, a career commercial fisherman, had just started as a columnist for the...

Our trails need help. Before the ascent of Patagonia and the remarkable marketing of the outdoors, there were relatively few hikers in Haines, and...