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Sam Wright, of Haines. (Courtesy/Annette Smith)

Southeast News, Search and Rescue

Community mourns pilots lost in the Fairweather mountains

by Rashah McChesney and Francisco Martínezcuello - Chilkat Valley News July 25, 2024October 13, 2024

Passengers jump off of a bus and headed down Haines' cruise ship dock toward a nearby Holland America cruise ship on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. About 150 people, primarily cruise ship passengers who had disembarked in Skagway, were trapped by a landslide in Canada and then bussed several hundred miles to Haines to rejoin their cruises. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Southeast News, Local News, Transportation, Tourism, News

‘We got a bonus tour’ cruise passengers stranded in Canada by rockslide rejoin their ships in Haines

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News July 23, 2024August 29, 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)

Southeast News, Search and Rescue

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

by Francisco Martínezcuello - Chilkat Valley News July 22, 2024October 13, 2024

(File photo/Chilkat Valley News) A family fishes on the Chilkoot River un 2021.

Local News, Salmon

Amid ‘strange year’ Chilkoot closes for red salmon fishing

by Francisco Martínezcuello - Chilkat Valley News July 21, 2024August 29, 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)

Search and Rescue, Southeast News

Yakutat-bound charter flight missing from Juneau

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News July 21, 2024October 13, 2024

Cruise ship visitors walk by a newly-installed sign on the cruise ship dock on May 24, 2024. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)

Local News, Photos of the Week, Business & Commerce

Photography shop re-opens near cruise ship dock

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News July 20, 2024October 13, 2024

Traffic monitoring devices have sprung up all over the Chilkat Valley. They're part of a state Department of Transportation effort to measure traffic patterns in the region. (Francisco Martïnezcuello/Chilkat Valley News) A traffic monitoring device being used by the state Department of Transportation in Haines, Alaska.

Local News, Transportation, News

State traffic counters return to Chilkat Valley

by Francisco Martínezcuello - Chilkat Valley News July 13, 2024July 13, 2024

Local News, Salmon, Environment & Natural Resources, News, Southeast News

Salmon disaster relief applications for permit-holders due August 24

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News July 13, 2024August 23, 2024

Local News, Salmon, Environment & Natural Resources, News

Local fishermen report mixed results in commercial season so far

by Francisco Martínezcuello - Chilkat Valley News July 13, 2024August 23, 2024

Haines Borough, News, Local News

Assembly approves a new tour permit, contracts for household waste disposal, considers advisory votes on contentious issues

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News July 13, 2024July 13, 2024