• Home
  • Print Edition
  • News
    • Southeast News
    • Local News
    • Klukwan
    • Sports
  • Community
    • Duly Noted
    • Photos of the Week
    • This Week in History
    • Haines Herring
      • Obituaries
        • Submit an obituary or death notice
        • Obituaries
    • Blotter
  • Letters & Opinion
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Thank You Letters
    • Commentary
    • Publisher’s Column
  • Visitor’s Guide
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Log in
  • Advertise with us
Skip to content
Chilkat Valley News

Chilkat Valley News

Covering the Chilkat Valley and Haines, Alaska since 1966

  • Home
  • Print Edition
  • News
    • Southeast News
    • Local News
    • Klukwan
    • Sports
  • Community
    • Duly Noted
    • Photos of the Week
    • This Week in History
    • Haines Herring
      • Obituaries
        • Submit an obituary or death notice
        • Obituaries
    • Blotter
  • Letters & Opinion
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Thank You Letters
    • Commentary
    • Publisher’s Column
  • Visitor’s Guide
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Log in
  • Advertise with us
Home » Public Safety » Page 9

Category: Public Safety

A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter hovers over Sitka Sound during routine hoist training, Alaska, Apr. 25, 2023. Air Station Sitka aircrew regularly conduct rescue hoist training exercises with their Mh-60T Jayhawk helicopters to maintain proficiency with a variety of techniques used to recover persons from the water, a vessel, or land. (Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard Photo/Lt. Cmdr Wryan Webb)
Posted inSearch and Rescue, Public Safety, News, Local News

Longtime Chilkat Valley resident dead after boat accident on the Chilkat River

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News September 18, 2024September 18, 2024
Prince of Wales Island in the Craig Ranger District, on November 27, 2006 in the Tongass National Forest. (Courtesy/Brian Barr, U.S. Forest Service)
Posted inSoutheast News, Search and Rescue

Unusual whale mortality reported off POW

Anna Laffrey - Daily Sitka Sentinel by Anna Laffrey - Daily Sitka Sentinel September 14, 2024October 13, 2024
A Haines Borough Police car on Main Street on May 21, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Posted inLocal News, Police

Chilkat Valley man accused of raping underage coworker

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News September 11, 2024
Sam Wright, of Haines. (Courtesy/Annette Smith)
Posted inSearch and Rescue, Southeast News

Extensive private search led to the discovery of plane that went missing between Juneau and Yakutat

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News August 22, 2024February 10, 2025
A Haines Borough Police car on Main Street on May 21, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Posted inLocal News, Wildlife, Public Safety

Brown bear shooting sparks police and wildlife trooper response on FAA Road

Francisco Martínezcuello - Chilkat Valley News by Francisco Martínezcuello - Chilkat Valley News August 19, 2024October 13, 2024
An officer with a simulation rifle moves through a school hallway as a volunteer shooting victim trails behind.
Posted inLocal News, News, Public Safety

Police practice communication, mindfulness during active shooter training

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News August 1, 2024October 13, 2024
Sam Wright, of Haines. (Courtesy/Annette Smith)
Posted inSearch and Rescue, Southeast News

Community mourns pilots lost in the Fairweather mountains

Rashah McChesney and Francisco Martínezcuello - Chilkat Valley News by Rashah McChesney and Francisco Martínezcuello - Chilkat Valley News July 25, 2024October 13, 2024
A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew rescues two stranded miners on the Chilkat River, 23 miles from Haines, Alaska, Nov. 3, 2018. The Jayhawks crew located the stranded men by a fire they had built to stay warm near the Chilkat River. (Courtesy/Lt. Kellen Browne, U.S. Coast Guard)
Posted inSearch and Rescue, Southeast News

Coast Guard calls off search for trio who went missing flying from Juneau to Yakutat

Francisco Martínezcuello - Chilkat Valley News by Francisco Martínezcuello - Chilkat Valley News July 22, 2024October 13, 2024
A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter hovers over Sitka Sound during routine hoist training, Alaska, Apr. 25, 2023. Air Station Sitka aircrew regularly conduct rescue hoist training exercises with their Mh-60T Jayhawk helicopters to maintain proficiency with a variety of techniques used to recover persons from the water, a vessel, or land. (Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard Photo/Lt. Cmdr Wryan Webb)
Posted inSearch and Rescue, Southeast News

Yakutat-bound charter flight missing from Juneau

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News July 21, 2024October 13, 2024
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kimball, right, and a Japanese naval training vessel travel near the island of Unalaska in 2021. The Kimball intercepted a group of Chinese military vessels operating near the Aleutian Islands last weekend. (U.S. Coast Guard)
Posted inNews, Public Safety

Inside the U.S. Coast Guard’s Aleutian encounter with China’s military — and what it means

Nathaniel Herz - Northern Journal by Nathaniel Herz - Northern Journal July 12, 2024September 11, 2024

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 … 7 8 9 10 11 … 28 Older posts

Recent News

  • Listen: Borough assembly to consider Episcopal church taxation issue, lawsuits, plastic bags
  • Two Coppers Casino grand opening celebrates payoff for years of effort by tribal officials and family
  • Julie Jackson Piper named Eaglecrest’s new GM as city-owned ski area ponders private takeover of operations
  • Under new agreement, federal government limits obstacles to oil leasing in Alaska’s Arctic refuge
  • Blotter: June 28 – July 4
  • Facebook
  • RSS Feed

Chilkat Valley News
P.O. Box 630
Haines AK 99827
Ph: (907) 766-2688
© 2023 Chilkat Valley News

Chilkat Valley News

Sections

  • News
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Duly Noted
  • Blotter

Newspaper

  • Advertise with us
  • Contact
  • Subscribe
  • About

Website

  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy

Contribute

  • Have a news tip or question for us?
  • Letter to the Editor

Site developed by PaywallProject.com

© 2026 Chilkat Valley News. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic