Rashah McChesney

Daily News Editor

I help the newsroom establish daily news priorities and do hands-on editing to ensure a steady stream of breaking and enterprise news for a local and regional audience.

Government | State Government

As early Election Day results roll in, some races are beginning to take shape

November 4, 2020 by Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media and Rashah McChesney, KTOO

But, these are preliminary results, and, as Alaska is the last state in the country to begin to count absentee ballots, the outcome of close races won’t be known for at least a week after Election Day.

Community | Coronavirus | Health | Southeast

After another staff member at Wildflower Court gets COVID-19 an administrator asks Juneau to help her keep residents safe

October 31, 2020 by Rashah McChesney, KTOO

The facility hasn’t allowed visitors since March. Wildflower Court administrator Ruth Johnson said Saturday that both staff members who have tested positive in recent weeks contracted the virus outside of the facility.

Coronavirus | Health | State Government

Alaska reports 447 new COVID-19 cases and another death

October 31, 2020 by Rashah McChesney, KTOO

It’s the state’s second-highest daily case count since the pandemic began.

Newscasts

Newscast – Friday, Oct. 30, 2020

October 30, 2020 by Rashah McChesney

Juneau’s Montessori School in Douglas is closed after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19.
As of Friday afternoon, about 750 people have applied for housing and utility assistance through Juneau’s new pandemic relief program
A few years after the Libertarian Party was founded in the Lower 48, voters in Fairbanks elected the first Libertarian to any partisan office in the country. Most Alaskans register to vote as nonpartisan or undeclared, leaving a lot of room for that Libertarian seed to take root. But Alaska’s last successful Libertarian candidate left office in 1986. Why hasn’t the “party of principle” gotten much traction in Alaska?
The environmental group that captured executives of the Pebble Mine boasting about their sway over Alaska’s senators and governor have released new footage from those secretly recorded sessions.