An eagle lands in the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve on Jan. 28, 2024, near Haines, Alaska. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)

The 29th Alaska Bald Eagle Festival will draw raptor enthusiasts to Haines in early November, though it’s not clear how many people will show up as organizers say event registrations are slow. 

The Chilkat Valley is known as being home to one of North America’s largest congregations of bald eagles due to a late chum…

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...