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  By Brandon Wilks   With the onset of Fall and Winter, summer activities like the Haines Farmer’s Market wind down. With the conclusion of the Market season at the end of September, KHNS’ Brandon Wilks sat down with Farmer’s Market Manager Sierra Clark to...

Skagway’s school kids are trying to clean up the community. During the last borough assembly meeting, the middle school robotics team and the fourth and fifth graders made pitches to the assembly to treat water before it hits the storm drainage system and to upgrade...

      The Haines Volunteer Fire Department is currently hosting fire prevention week, and is teaching kids to increase fire safety in their home. It’s 9 am at the firehall and Mrs Armstrong‘s class of first graders is standing by the fire trucks,...

  A reconfiguration of the Skagway waterfront is in the design stage.  The municipality of Skagway is poised to take ownership of its waterfront next March, when the 55-year lease to White Pass is set to expire. The Ore Peninsula is of particular interest at the...

The Juneau office of NOAA put out a flood watch for the upper Lynn Canal. A weather system is moving onto Yakutat this afternoon and will arrive in our area by early evening. Just under four inches of rain are expected to have fallen by Friday morning, the winds may...

This week end an ABBA themed play and dance party was performed at the Chilkat Center.

 A state department of natural resources geologist was in town with a crew last week, to finish the LIDAR mapping of the slopes around Haines. The crew could not map above a thousand feet during previous visits, this time they hit the right weather window to finish...

Last week, the Haines borough hosted the Lutak Dock Town Hall. Alain d’Epremesnil has this story. The Haines Borough held a presentation by Turnagain Marine Construction last Thursday night, to inform the public about future work at the Lutak dock, and clarify how the...

  The Haines Glacier Bears Cross Country team took first and second place at the state competition this week end. Thirteen athletes, two coaches, and five supporting families took the drive from Haines to Anchorage this weekend to attend the state cross country...