Staff from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the United States Department of Agriculture talk while Steve Kroschel looks on during an August 27, 2024, inspection of his wildlife facility in Mosquito Lake, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

A popular wildlife center in the Chilkat Valley has regained a federal license to open to the public, but lost its state permit to operate and appears unlikely to regain that permit in time to…

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...