The animal cruelty case against Steve Kroschel will be heard by a local jury in the Haines courthouse, likely after the new year.

Alaska Airlines will retire its fleet of Boeing 737-700 aircraft next year, switching over to larger 800 Series planes — providing more passenger and cargo capacity, particularly on Southeast Alaska runs.

607 votes in favor of rescinding, 490 vote to keep tax in results so far, a year after it is approved by voters.

A local group has changed an election day promotion that faced an allegation of violating state elections law. Resident Sheri Loomis submitted a complaint to local and state officials Wednesday alleging violations by Citizens for Haines, an independent expenditure group active in the past three years’ local elections.

All who testified in the Alaska subsistence hearings the U.S. Forest Service held via teleconference Wednesday said the 2001 Roadless Rule should be kept in place to protect subsistence harvest opportunities, particularly on the Tongass National Forest.

20-year multimodal outlook looks at connections between aviation, marine highways, roads, and bridges; plan could be altered after finalization in November if priorities shift.

A small-dollar collections suit has made a Lutak Road property one front in an unresolved, statewide conflict over land sovereignty. And despite losing the lawsuit — in which a tribal government defendant argued the borough’s tax policy ran afoul of federal law — the borough says its stance on the issue remains unchanged.

We’ve heard of seismometers identifying earthquakes, but what about them being used to identify and track landslides? This is something that students with the University of Oregon are working with, in conjunction with a slew of other devices to better understand the landslides in the Chilkat Valley.

Haines resident Sue Libenson surprised a bear while hiking on the Jones Point trail on Monday afternoon.

Alaska’s mariculture industry turned over a new leaf Friday when the tugboat Ethan B towed a floating mariculture laboratory into Sitka Channel, completing a three-day journey from Ketchikan.

The early morning fire Sept. 15 that destroyed much of the Marine Bar building was started by an “electric heating element” underneath the building, according to a preliminary investigation two days later by the state fire marshal’s office.

Public given an additional 15 days to give input on proposed rule and draft environmental statement.