Just about two weeks ago, a bear finished what a coyote started with Michelle Stigen’s 2017 Hyundai Tuscon Sport.

Wrong place, wrong time,” is how one local described a recent encounter with two bears near the Mount Ripinsky trailhead.

10 years ago Valley voters: Pot, Begich, wage hike Haines and Klukwan residents voted with the rest of Alaska on three ballot ...

10 years ago Valley voters: Pot, Begich, wage hike Haines and Klukwan residents voted with the rest of Alaska on three ballot ...

Residents in town, up the Haines Highway and in Klukwan supported U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, over Republican challenger ...