Photography

Children spray the buoy during the firehose battle on July 4, 2026 in Haines, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
(Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News) Snowboarder Shane Blue Sandblom looks on as Friday’s Freeride World Tour ski champion Toby Rafford, middle, convinces FWT head judge Lolo Besse to drink beer out of his bowl on Friday, March 13, 2026 in Haines, Alaska.
(Lizzy Hahn/ UAF Sun Star) University of Alaska Fairbanks student Graham Granger ate polaroids made in collaboration between MFA student Nick Dwyer and ChatGPT on January 13, 2026 in Fairbanks, Alaska.
(Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News) Jackets lay on the ground, covered in the shells from the Easter egg hunt in the Haines High School on April 5, 2026.
(Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News) The Steinway Model B piano sits open on the stage of the Chilkate Center on Monday, March 30, 2026 in Haines, Alaska.
(Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News) Kate Gallatig surfaces after practicing a flip in the Haines pool on Sunday, March 29, 2026 in Haines, Alaska.
(Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News) Michael Marks demonstrates what the Steinway Model B piano sounds like that was donated to the Chilkat Center in 1993. Photographed on Monday, March 30, 2026 in Haines, Alaska.
(Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News) Assembly member Mark Smith talks during the assembly meeting Tuesday, March 10, 2026 in Haines, Alaska.
(Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News) Haines, Alaska on April 5, 2026.
Shannon Miller won Haines’ first hot dog eating contest after eating eight hot dogs in 250 seconds on July 4, 2026 in Haines, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
“Mister 4th of July” Jaxon Grant throws candy at the crowd during the parade on July 4, 2026 in Haines, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
Haines Police Department officers Max Jusi, Travis Russell, Max Marty, left, battle Haines Fire Chief Zak Overmyer on July 4, 2026 in Haines, Alaska.
Rebecca Brewer fixes a fisherman’s net on the dock on June 26, 2026 in Haines, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay on June 20, 2026 in Haines, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
An American flag was raised on flag day, June 14, 2026 by Haines Industrial. The flag was taken down on June 17, 2026 in Haines, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
Reuben Cash, environmental coordinator with the Skagway Tribal Council, holds jewelweed roots on June 9, 2026 in Haines, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
Canadians Connor Cooper, left, kicks the hackey sack as Jason Dagger, Kaelen Lewis, Nate Schmidt, and Ashton Underhill look on while standing in line for the 32nd annual Beerfest in Haines on May 23, 2026. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
Jody Peters and the band Speed Control performs during Beerfest on May 23, 2026. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
Klukwan student Aaliyah Houghton-Bynum drums and sings with her classmates as they honored Orange Shirt day. Students spent the days prior learning about Phyllis Webstad, a Northern Secwpemc woman who was sent to a boarding school in Canada when she was six years old. Webstad was wearing an orange shirt to school, which was taken from her upon arrival. Answering one by one, students answered the question “how should students in our school feel.” They responded with: safe, brave, thought of, looked after, very happy, important and more. After singing two songs in Lingít, students passed out brunch to community members on September 30, 2026, in Klukwan, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
Candidates for the Haines Borough assembly Beau Bradley, left, Anne Marie Palmieri, Lee Robinson and Diana Lapham get ready for the candidate forum hosted by the Chilkat Valley News and KHNS on September 25, 2026, in Haines, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
Alaska Department of Fish and Game program technician Maria Knutson pries a tooth out of the moose that Billy O’Brien shot on September 16, 2026, in Haines, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
Crab pots sit outside of Haines Packing’s processing plant at Letnikof Cove in Haines, Alaska, on August 28, 2026. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
University of Oregon graduate students Maryn Sanders, left, and Maia Seeley use a ladder to cross the water channel on the 19 Mile fan while going to check on infrasound sensors, or sensors that pick up sound, on August 17, 2026, outside of Klukwan, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
University of Oregon undergraduate student Charlie Holmes checks on the game camera he helped set up on a landslide fan on August 17, 2026, outside of Klukwan, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
University of Oregon graduate student Maia Seeley checks on an infrasound sensor, or a sensor that picks up sounds, on August 17, 2026, outside of Klukwan, Alaska. Seeley replaced the SD card for the sensors to be able to check the data recorded from the past year. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)
University of Oregon professor Josh Roering pulled out a map that shows the 23 Mile and 19 Mile fans where students set up sensors to monitor each fan’s landslide activity on August 17, 2026, outside of Klukwan, Alaska. (Lizzy Hahn/ Chilkat Valley News)