Five different appeals challenged the permit, mostly focusing on noise.
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A year after Haines’ deadly landslide, signs of recovery but still work to do
It’s been a year since heavy rains and deadly landslides swept through Haines. The small community mustered an extensive recovery effort, but some people don’t have homes to return to, and it’s clear that there’s still more work and more healing to do.
More Haines residents prepared to evacuate their homes as weather deteriorates
Snow, ice and then rain complicated the efforts in Haines of city and state crews that have been working to clear roads of landslides and debris, because most of them spent the morning clearing snow before they could get to work.
In Haines, clean-up and search efforts happen in brief good-weather window
State geologists on Saturday said the ground was too unstable and recommended that search crews stay away from the slide zone.
Haines leaders grapple with police, economic development budget questions
Should the Haines Borough have a five-officer police force? $95,000 in government funding? How should the borough go about giving money to nonprofits? These are some of the questions the assembly has to decide on next week, in the fiscal year 18 borough budget.