(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) The northern lights hang over the Upper Lynn Canal on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 near Haines, Alaska.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Northern Lights hang over Haines on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025.
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Moose, a juvenile eagle, in a kennel awaiting transport to Sitka for injuries she sustained in Haines.
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Mark Fontenot holds a juvenile bald eagle he helped to rescue after it was stunned in late September near the Haines airport.
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A group of election workers get training from borough clerk Mike Denker on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, in Haines, alaska.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Tracks tell a story of a bear and a person walking barefoot in the mud on Chilkoot Lake on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025, near Haines, Alaska.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Audience members listen to candidates for the Haines borough planning commission answer questions on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, in Haines, Alaska.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Candidates for the Haines Borough assembly answer questions during a Chilkat Valley News and KHNS candidate forum.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Joe Parnell answers questions during a candidate forum on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, in Haines, Alaska.
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Maddox Rogers, 18, got his driver’s license after traveling to Skagway to take his driver’s test, shown here in the Chevy Equinox he’ll be driving on Sept. 23, 2025, in Haines, Alaska.
(Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) Passengers Natasha Dioril and Cindy Maestas wait in the Chilkat Center Wednesday evening, September 17, 2025.
(Courtesty/Mandy Reigle) Mandy Reigle sits on the SeaDoo she uses to commute between Haines and Skagway.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) (left) Austin Finnan and Wildlife Trooper Josh Whitby describe an antler shape during a pre-season hunting meeting on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, at the American Bald Eagle Foundation in Haines, Alaska.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) A pre-season hunting meeting attendee describes a moose antler shape on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, at the American Bald Eagle Foundation in Haines, Alaska.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) (left) Shane Horton and wildlife trooper Josh Whitby look at moose antler photos on Whitby’s phone during a pre-season moose hunting meeting on Thursday, September 11, 2025, in Haines, Alaska.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Baylee Pearson holds onto the rack of a moose she took on Monday, September 15, 2025, on the first day of hunting season in the Chilkat Valley. Pearson was the second person to report harvesting a moose at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game office in Haines. According to Fish and Game measurements, the moose had a 52.5 inch rack, and 5 points on both sides.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Nicole Zeiser listens to Craig Loomis tell the story of a successful moose hunt on the first day of the season on Monday, September 15, 2025, in the Chilkat Valley.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) A crowd gathers around Baylee Pearson and a bull moose she shot on the first day of hunting season on Monday, September 15, 2025, in Haines, Alaska.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) A gathering at Regal Realty’s new physical location drew dozens of people on Friday, September 5, 2025, in Haines, Alaska.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Mark Mencel throws an axe in front of a crowd of spectators on Friday, September 5, 2025, at the Hammer Museum in Haines, Alaska.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) (left) Jacques Turcotte talks to John Carlson about Carlson’s hewing axe on Friday, September 5, 2025, in Haines, Alaska.
(Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) Eldred Rock Lighthouse, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025.
(Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) Inside Eldred Rock Lighthouse, looking south, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025.
(Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) A hammock hangs at Eldred Rock, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025.
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(Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) Eldred Rock, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025.
(Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) Haines resident and Eldred Rock Lighthouse Preservation Association director Dan Humphrey at Eldred Rock Lighthouse, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025.
(Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) Haines resident and Eldred Rock Lighthouse Preservation Association director Dan Humphrey climbs into Eldred Rock Lighthouse, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025.
(Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) Last light in the keeper’s quarters at Eldred Rock Lighthouse, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025.
(Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) Gina St. Claire cleans windows at Eldred Rock, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025.