Former Haines-area wildlife trooper Colin Nemec assists with an investigation (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News).

Alaska State Troopers say they’re on track to fill a wildlife trooper position in the Chilkat Valley that has been vacant since late 2024 when previous Colin Nemec moved to Juneau. 

Trooper spokesperson Austin McDaniel said the agency does not direct-hire people for one-person trooper posts — meaning someone had to voluntarily transfer into the Chilkat Valley’s wildlife trooper position. The…

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...