The Haines Borough is the local government for Haines and the Chilkat Valley in northern Southeast Alaska. Its assembly and mayor set property, sales and resource taxes, run the port, harbors, roads and emergency services, and decide land use and planning questions.
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Haines, AK, USA
Haines voters choose a mayor and decide five tax and planning measures
Haines Borough voters are electing a mayor, Assembly, Planning Commission and School Board members and deciding five measures on Planning Commission appointments, sales tax, severance tax, an alcohol tax and the senior property-tax exemption.
by Alaska News1w ago2 min read
Live Alaska local results: Fairbanks, Kodiak and Wasilla report first totals
Preliminary election-night results from Alaska local elections, including close Assembly races in the Fairbanks North Star and Kodiak Island boroughs and early counts from Juneau, Palmer, Ketchikan City, Seward, Wasilla, the North Slope Borough and state-run REAA school-board contests.
by Alaska News1w ago11 min read
Haines Borough voters decide five tax and planning measures with no fiscal note
Haines Borough voters decide Oct. 6 on five measures: repealing the seasonal sales tax, a severance tax, a 2 percent alcohol tax, a smaller senior exemption and an appointed planning commission. The borough has posted no fiscal note for any of them.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Haines voters face five ballot measures, four of them about taxes
Haines Borough voters will decide five measures on the Oct. 6 ballot, four of them about taxes, including a new severance tax on resource industries.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Haines votes on whether to stop electing its planning commission
Haines voters will decide Oct. 6 whether to return the borough Planning Commission to mayoral appointment, three years after voting to make the seats elected.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
A Haines ordinance cuts more code than the commission voted to change
A Haines Borough ordinance deletes more of the land-use code than the Planning Commission voted to change, including a nonconforming-uses provision.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Haines woman seriously injured by bear on Mt. Riley Road
A Haines resident walking a leashed dog on Mt. Riley Road was attacked by a brown bear early Saturday and is being treated in Juneau. Investigators found food waste dumped near the road and closed the Lily Lake Trail. DNA samples go to Anchorage.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Palmer copper project advances as the Chilkat Valley pushes back
The Palmer Project near Haines is advancing as a critical-minerals exploration prospect with the governor's backing, as Chilkat Valley residents fight for the river.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago2 min read