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Alaska ferry service returns to Prince Rupert
Alaska state ferry service between Ketchikan and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, resumed on Monday...
Yesterday's News
June 23, 1922 Block 8 of the Petersburg townsite will be purchased by the Town of Petersburg from the Petersburg Packing Corporation for school...
Assembly makes child care task force appointments
The Petersburg Borough Assembly voted unanimously to appoint 11 people to the Early Childhood Education Task Force during Monday’s meeting. The...
Search ends for woman who fell from cruise ship in Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a 40-year-old woman who fell overboard off a cruise ship in Alaska’s...
Columbia's return nowhere on the horizon
The largest of the state ferries, the 499-passenger Columbia, was still listed as inactive on the Transportation Department website as of Monday,...
Kennicott delayed out of shipyard; parts part of the problem
Global supply chain shortages and delays have extended past grocery stores, car dealers and electron...
Yesterday's News News from 25-50-75-100 years ago
April 21, 1922 A reef of gold bearing ore several hundred feet in width and over five miles in length, which runs from four to twelve dollars in...
Extra ferry sailing will pick up waitlist travelers in Bellingham
With more than 260 would-be ferry passengers stuck on a waitlist for travel out of Bellingham, Washington, and sailings full until late July, the...
State ferry system silent on summer plans for Columbia
The Alaska Marine Highway System has been hoping since last August to bring back the Columbia to...
State moves shrimp fishery to spring; no harvest this year
The state Board of Fisheries' decision last month to move the Southeast commercial shrimp pot...
McCallum, Walther wed
Mark and Sue McCallum, along with Pamela Mae Post, happily announce the marriage of Tess Walther...
Yesterday's News
March 24, 1922 What about the tide flats in front of town? It is a certainty that work will start on the dredging of Wrangell Narrows this year and...
Columbia's return to service in doubt for lack of crew
A state Department of Transportation official told legislators that the ferry system is "burning...
Obituary
Thomas Andrew (Tommie) Willis, age 31, of Juneau, Alaska passed away unexpectedly on Monday, March... Full story
Ferry system still short of hiring target for summer schedule
State ferry system and Transportation Department officials plan to gather this week in Ketchikan to consider options for fulfilling the advertised sum...
Alaska Fish Factor
March means more fishing boats are out on the water with the start of the Pacific halibut and sablefish (black cod) fisheries this past Sunday,...
IPHC increases halibut limit by over two million pounds
The commercial Pacific halibut fishing period is set to begin on March 6 as determined during the...
House speaker questions ferry system's hiring expectations
State Transportation Department officials recently told legislators the ferry system needed to quickly hire at least 166 new crew in order to meet...
Ferry system may reconsider charging more when ships are fuller
State ferry management said they are working to be more responsive to community and passenger...
First baby of 2022
Beckett Buchan Thain is Petersburg's First baby of 2022. He was born on February 2nd, 2022 at 9:30...
Lack of crew could keep Columbia tied to the dock
Unless the Alaska Marine Highway System can recruit enough workers by March 1 to restaff the unused...
Alaska Fish Factor: Report looks at Alaska's potential to grow in seaweed business
The U.S. grows less than one-100th of 1% of the world’s $6 billion seaweed market, but Alaska has the goods to grow into a major contributor. A new...
Coastal legislators disapprove of governor's spending plan for ferries
Though they say the level of funding for the state ferry system in Gov. Mike Dunleavy's budget for t...
Alaska Fish Factor: Pacific Halibut Commission will set catch later this month
Wow, there is a lot of fishing going on across Alaska! Salmon is the heart of Alaska’s seafood industry but winter is when the fishing action...
Editorial: An introduction
I was nineteen when I first rode the M/V Columbia up to Petersburg, back in 2003, and I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I parked myself...
