10+ hour, 18+ min ago   (86+ words) Chilkat Valley News Haines voters will decide in October whether to add a 2% sales tax to alcoholic beverages. While the increase isn’t large, it brings up the issue of sin taxes, responsible spending and how to best fund a borough....

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (90+ words) Chilkat Valley News The Haines Borough Assembly met on Tuesday evening to discuss childcare, sales taxes the Chilkoot Corridor and more. First, they heard about an hour of public comments, most centered on a proposed park at Third and Main…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (60+ words) Chilkat Valley News Some community members are accusing organizers of a local election forum of hiding political bias; others say the forum is a good-faith effort at political dialogue. Organizing Wednesday’s forum was Citizens for Haines, an independent expenditure group…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (83+ words) chilkatvalleynews.com As winter settles over the Chilkat Valley, so does the danger that lives on our mountain slopes. Last year was a clear example of the risks posed by snowpack on steep terrain, when avalanches reached the highway corridor…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (88+ words) chilkatvalleynews.com Here we go again, another local election cycle, and once again we are watching a coordinated effort to promote a candidate who has lived in Haines for less time than the three-year term they are seeking. The concern…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (89+ words) Haines Borough voters should vote no on Initiative 2, which would reduce the senior property tax exemption. Our seniors spent decades working, raising families, building businesses, volunteering and contributing to the Haines community. Many now live on fixed incomes while facing…...

4+ day, 54+ min ago   (88+ words) Story and Kreitzer flagged in Department of Law’s review of campaign filings chilkatvalleynews.com It’s OK to put Treg Taylor back in the governor’s race despite a finding he violated state campaign law because the vast majority of candidates in…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (101+ words) Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the Deputy Editor for the Gulf…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (763+ words) Deep in some of the most remote areas of forest on Wrangell Island, U.S. Forest Service natural resource technician Anna Belback tramped her way through dense trees and brush to set up a pair of speakers. She cranked up the volume…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (807+ words) A Haines man is heading up an effort to collect supplies for a home rebuilding effort in Tok where the Mukluk Fire has devastated parts of the community. The Mukluk Fire started on August 17. According to the Alaska Division of…...