In the months before Kelly Swihart announced he would retire as police chief in mid-2018, the department he leads was besieged by three separate inter...

February 22, 1918 The halibut schooner Pioneer, Captain Ingvald Hansen, which reached here a couple of weeks ago with a 35,000-pound catch, sailed...

School administrators in Petersburg are using recent student incidents to spark conversations and learn, while confronting the conversations with...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Doctors confirmed the presence of mumps in Juneau for the first time in more than two decades. There has been one confirmed case...

Experience Matters To the Editor: It is my understanding that the borough assembly wants to combine PMP&L and Public Works. There is a big difference...

It took police officers less than 10 minutes to locate two vehicles that were allegedly stolen on consecutive days by the same Petersburg man. Ron...

A prosecutor last week dismissed sexual assault charges against a Petersburg man who was accused last spring of raping a woman. On May 11, 2017 a...

February 14 — An officer gave a courtesy transport to a citizen walking in the cold from Frederick Point. An officer received a report of a vehicle f...

The Southeast Alaska Power Agency governing board earlier this month approved moving forward with a remote inspection of the tunnels underlying the...

The Trump Administration’s $4.4 trillion federal budget for next year takes some mean whacks to programs that affect fisheries. Off the top, the spend...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A study of bears and berries has determined that the big animals are the main dispersers of fruit seeds in southeast...