Produce is on display at a Juneau market on Oct. 9, 2024. (Courtesy/Claire Stremple,Alaska Beacon)
Produce is on display at a Juneau market on Oct. 9, 2024. (Courtesy/Claire Stremple,Alaska Beacon)

Chilkat Valley residents are among the more than 66,000 Alaskans who could lose their federal food assistance benefits in November due to the ongoing federal shutdown.

“The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has directed states to stop the issuance of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for the month of November due to insufficient federal funds,”…

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...