The Haines Borough Administration Building, March 3, 2025. (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News)

The state has been promised a more-than-quarter-billion dollar windfall, and some of it could end up in the Chilkat Valley.

The $272 million materialized in Juneau just before New Year’s for the Rural Health Transformation Program — part of the Trump Administration’s tax and spending bill, often referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill, passed in July.

As a whole, it’s a…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.