(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Waitstaff at Deer Heart prepare to deliver meals during opening night on Friday, April 4, 2025, in Haines, Alaska.

Deer Heart sees success during first weekend over

Travis Kukull’s new restaurant Deer Heart opened over the weekend. And, while they called it a soft opening, it was probably a bit harder for the new staff who had to accommodate the 50 people who showed up all at once on Friday evening.…

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...