Luke Davis ran into a hiccup getting back in time for his spring semester at Eastern Oregon University when the Hubbard ferry was stranded in Haines on Jan. 3. Davis, 19, and his mother Holly Davis were supposed to leave town on the evening ferry but instead waited for several hours while the crew worked to repair an electrical issue. Coast Guard spokesperson Sam Dapcevich said the ship’s emergency switchboard was not getting power and…

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...