Haines sport fisheries biologist and Alaska Department of Fish and Game area manager Alex Tugaw is leaving town after a year and a half. Tugaw, who arrived in October of 2023, said he has loved getting to know such a unique and biodiverse place. He and partner Shaelene Molerloaded all of their belongings onto the Feb. 17 ferry and are Sitka-bound, where Tugaw will be working as a fisheries biologist for the Sitka Tribe…

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...