(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) An eagle snacks on a fish head in the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, near Haines, Alaska.

The National Weather Service warns of extreme cold through noon Christmas day.

The weather service predicts a high of 5 degrees Fahrenheit  Monday with windchill as low as 20 degrees below zero dipping down to a low of about minus 4 during the evening. On Tuesday the high is again…

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...