Editor’s note: A story following up on this one was published on Sunday afternoon and can be found here.

(left) Haines Police’s Michael Fullerton listens to Mike Ward as the two watch four of Ward’s stores burn down on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

A small crowd gathered Saturday night watching as a fire ate through the building that houses Haines’ Quick Shop, Outfitter Liquor, Outfitter Sporting Goods, Mike’s…

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...