Teresa Albecker worked quietly late Friday afternoon in the Alaska Department of Motor Vehicles’ Main Street office. 

It was her last day in the office after 10 years. She’d hung a sign on the door.

The sign notes she’d retired, the DMV is looking for her replacement, and instructions on applying for the job. The local office was closed Monday morning and for the foreseeable future until her replacement is hired. 

Department of Administration spokesperson…

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...