New signs hang in Howsers IGA, showing viewers how to pronounce the Tlingít words for the household items and groceries they’re buying. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Voters  will decide whether to adopt a seasonal sales tax and cash in on the tourists who visit Haines each summer. 

Currently, the borough’s sales tax rate stands at 5.5 percent in town. It would jump up to 7% from April 1 through Sept. 30. In the rest of…

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...