Dear readers,

The need to raise rates is one of the hardest conversations for any business to have with its local community and it’s particularly difficult for me, both as a journalist who believes that news should be available to everyone who needs it, and the new owner of the Chilkat Valley News. But, here we are. 

We are in a challenging time for local media and the Chilkat Valley News has held its subscription…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...