Haines News

Home Skillet Festival comes together through the combined efforts of many hands, minds and pocketbooks.

Gustavus-based charter Air Excursions is ready to fly scheduled flights in Southeast - if the federal government overrules an objection from a competitor that the company owes more than $600,000 in federal taxes.

Yet another cruise line has announced plans to cut back in Alaska for 2010 -- and in a big way.

Nathalie Mather-Dugas and her son, Liam, ride their tandem road bike in Whitehorse earlier in the year.

As of June 22, 2009, the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has confirmed 13 new cases of H1N1 in Alaska.

We all got dressed up for Tina's wedding. "No jeans," I shouted up the stairs to my teenagers.

Phil Leadbetter sent along this brief report about Grasstowne's recent Canadian tour, along with some photos of the guys taking in the sights.

June 17, 1999 - Misty, a white horse that roamed in the wild near Haines for more than 13 years, might not have survived the winter.

Swine flu is officially in Juneau. Health officials announced two confirmed cases Friday, both at the Ethel Lund Medical Center.

About a dozen Whitehorse residents reported feeling an earthquake Sunday afternoon.

Investigators are looking for clues in the 1982 murder of a Haines girl. The Alaska Bureau of Investigation's Cold Case Unit has reopened the case of Eileen Wafer, who was 14 when she disappeared from her home in 1982, according to Elizabeth Ipsen of the Department of Public Safety.

A Skagway man has been confirmed to have swine flu, one of six official cases in Alaska and the second in Southeast, Alaska public health officials said Tuesday.

Alaska tallied its fourth official swine flu case Thursday, but it may have actually been the state's first case.

SITKA, ALASKA The first documented case of the H1N1 swine flu in Southeast Alaska was reported at the SEARHC clinic in Haines yesterday .

Two new cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Alaska, the state Department of Health and Social Services said.

I would like to report objectively on the Haines High class of 2009 graduation. But I can't, because my youngest daughter was one of the 21 students who eventually received diplomas and because, if you had asked me in December, I would have placed the odds of her wearing that white cap and gown at 50-50 -- and I am perpetually optimistic.

Most parents want to protect their children from tobacco and alcohol, but it may surprise them to know where most youth who use tobacco and/or alcohol get their supplies.

Haines almost made the news again this week but happily dodged another disaster after a fire started by a road-building crew jumped into the brush and began to run up the hill below a neighborhood.

Ah, spring! It means a great thing is about to happen for anyone who enjoys their beer - Haines Brewfest.

The Yukon's first wildfire of the season flared up Monday near Haines Junction, but the forest fire danger remains low throughout much of the territory.