Will Koussaila Hocine, 16, runs with the ball during a pickup soccer game on Saturday, August 1, 2026, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Forty people representing at least a dozen nationalities came together to play soccer in Haines on Saturday. 

People who showed up to play said it’s common to find people pulling together a soccer game a couple of times a week in the summers, but Saturday’s crowd was the largest anyone…

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...