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Clearing work continues at slide; fundraising grows to help families
WRANGELL - Response to the deadly landslide continues, with extensive clearing work to remove...
State releases names of landslide dead and missing
WRANGELL - State officials have released the names of the four people killed and two others still...
Sitka responded to fatal 2015 landslide with monitoring system
A series of landslides hit Sitka more than eight years ago during heavy rain, with the largest striking a new subdivision and killing three workers....
Satellite link in a backpack provides Wi-Fi service for landslide responders
WRANGELL — First responders and volunteers working at the site of the deadly landslide have a Wi-Fi signal, thanks to a backpack satellite-link...
University of Alaska Southeast fisheries program attracts more students, and not just from Alaska
Now in its 15th year, the applied fisheries program at the University of Alaska Southeast draws students from across the state and across the...
Guest Editorial: The governor owes Alaskans an apology
Unconscionable. Indefensible. There are many words to describe the disrespect for the public and disregard for honest government by the actions of the...
Guest Editorial: Remembering a moment of sharing religions
Jews in Israel and Palestinians in Gaza are embroiled in the deadliest fighting in decades, prompted by an organized assault by Hamas soldiers who...
Building mariculture industry means growing production and market at same time
A statewide effort to build up Alaska’s mariculture industry is looking to expand production at the same time it grows the market, particularly for...
AK Seaplanes will end service to Wrangell and Petersburg
Alaska Seaplanes has decided to shut down its Wrangell and Petersburg operations, citing poor econom...
Wrangell has lot of decisions to make on next year's subdivision land sale
WRANGELL — While ground work is underway at the Alder Top Village (Keishangita.’aan) subdivision upland from Shoemaker Bay, borough officials are...
Stikine Sportsmen put up $2,500 reward in illegal cow moose kill
WRANGELL — The Stikine Sportsmen Association is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the conviction of whoever illegally killed a...
Alaska Airlines wants to find answer to relieve terminal crowding
Alaska Airlines would like to improve passenger flow at its Wrangell and Petersburg airport...
Higher oil revenues will enable more spending on public needs
With high oil prices driving up state revenues, Southeast legislators say to expect a larger capital budget next year for public works projects, more...
State plans to send Matanuska into shipyard for full-hull scan
The state wants to send the Matanuska, the oldest vessel in the Alaska Marine Highway System fleet,...
Alaskans could see $500 bonus payment next year
High oil prices could provide an additional $500 for Alaskans a year from now. As part of the end-of-session budget deal put together by legislative...
Guest Editorial
When I was much younger, hallucinations were an affliction of college students who figured drug-assisted education was the answer to life — or at...
Guest Editorial: Governor should help get the work done
Employers everywhere are finding it hard to recruit and retain employees. But it sure seems that the state of Alaska, under the disengaged leadership...
Oversupply and inflationary pressure on consumers drag down salmon prices
Oversupply from bumper harvests last year and inflationary pressures squeezing household food budgets have made it a terrible year for Alaska salmon...
Guest Editorial: Supply and demand matters greatly to Alaska
Oil and water don’t mix. We learned that in high school. And we learned it again when water got into a heating fuel line. In Alaska, oil and salmon...
Tlingit & Haida Head Start plans to cut 80 classroom spots
The Head Start program operated in 10 Southeast communities by the Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska wants to reduce its auth...
Guest Editorial: About time the pipeline dream ran out of gas
Elected officials who say the proposed Alaska North Slope natural gas project is closer than ever to putting steel pipe in the ground and money in...
WA State Ferries system suffers same problems as Alaska
The Washington State Ferries system still has not returned to its full pre-pandemic schedule, coming up short due to fewer riders, an inability to rec...
Guest Editorial: It's only permanent if we change it
The Alaska Permanent Fund has prospered for almost half a century, growing ever more important for the state’s future. What started as a source of...
Ferry system breaks even on hiring first six months of year
After the past few years when resignations and retirements far outpaced new hires, the Alaska Marine Highway System was able to hire as many new...
Guest Editorial
Opponents of ranked-choice voting in Alaska want to put an initiative on the ballot so that voters can overturn the law in the 2024 election. To do...
