Haines News

With the aid of a belay and the G3 Alpinist Splitboard Skins Jonathan Cooper crosses a bergschrund and continues to ascend a slope near Haines, Alaska.

HAINES, Alaska -- If I bend over any farther, I will be swimming with the tadpoles.

The sunken barge found in Lutak Inlet just off the main Haines dock area is likely one that sank in a storm in 1976 during a dredging operation.

A former co-worker of a man accused in a 20-year-old murder in Ogden said the cold case suspect had a darker side.

Stephen Ellenwood, 40, was arrested about 2 p.m. Wednesday after a brief foot pursuit, according a press release from the Haines Borough Police Department in Haines, Alaska.

A local legislative race in Alaska has caught the attention of national media, and is being held up as model for political change elsewhere in the country.

A new turboprop aircraft will make it easier for a medical transport service to land in some Southeast Alaska communities.

You might think someone around Haines would remember the sinking of a 180-foot-long, 30-foot-wide steel-hulled vessel of some kind near the main dock on Lutak Inlet just north of the Southeast Alaska town.

Blustery weather outside didn't stop people from attending the Alaska Marine Highway System's 50th anniversary party aboard the Malaspina Wednesday in Ketchikan.

Over the past few weeks Wildsnow readers have been barraged with pictures and words from our crew raving about steep lines, deep powder, and beautiful mountains near Haines, Alaska.

Veteran's services and especially long-term veteran's housing options are scare in rural Alaska.

The SEARHC WISEWOMAN Women's Health Program and the Breast Cancer Detection Center of Alaska are happy to announce the schedule for the spring mobile mammogram clinics in Haines and Angoon.

A Duplicate Bridge Sectional Tournament was held at the American Bald Eagle Foundation Center in Haines Alaska from April 19 through April 21.

The village is being created in order to provide permanent affordable housing for veterans of all ages from any branch of service.

The ferry Malaspina awaits passengers at Juneau's Auke Bay. The importance of the Alaska Marine Highway System to Lynn Canal communities was one area of agreement at the summit.

The borough assemblies from Haines, Skagway and Juneau will meet Friday afternoon in the Skagway Assembly Chambers for what's being billed as "The Northern Lynn Canal Neighbors Summit." First-term Juneau Mayor Merrill Sanford has made reaching out to neighboring communities a priority for his first year in office.