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Forest Service announces eight potential cabin sites; Woodpecker Cove Road top priority for Petersburg District
After a yearlong public process, the U.S. Forest Service has announced eight potential sites for...
Viking Swim Club auction Saturday
The Viking Swim Club (VSC) annual dinner and auction takes place this Saturday, Oct. 28. Doors open at 6:00 pm upstairs at the Elks. The event is the...
Record number of Anan Observatory permits used this year
A record number of people visited Anan Wildlife Observatory this season - the largest amount since 2...
Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Candidates
Ambre Burrell My name is Ambre Burrell, I have made Petersburg my home for the past 17 years. My...
To the Editor
Do we really need a new hospital? To the Editor: When I first heard about the hospital project, like many of you, I had a lot of questions. Do we...
In new challenges to Tongass 'Roadless Rule,' pro-logging arguments have disappeared
The state of Alaska, a coalition of business groups and a pair of electric-power organizations have opened a new round in the generation-long fight...
Hospital Board Candidates Questionnaire
Jerod Cook What is your age? I am 54 years old Why have you chosen to run for Hospital Board at... Full story
State challenges roadless rule for Tongass
A legal challenge by the state to the Biden administration’s reinstatement of the roadless rule, banning logging and road building on more than n...
Artifact Archive
In 1935 Dick Estelle’s parents worked in the Matanuska Colony, part of the New Deal resettlement o...
Volunteer fire department calls for more help
Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department is dangerously understaffed. Last week the department pushed...
Yesterday's News News from 25-50-75-100 years ago
August 31, 1923 – The cannery of the Petersburg Packing Company, this year will set a new high mark for number of cases of salmon packed, having a...
Firefighters report more progress against Canadian wildfires and wait for rain
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Petersburg’s continually hazy sky hints at the wildfire conditions being battled by our neighbor to the South and...
Yesterday's News: News from 25-50-75-100 years ago
August 24, 1923 – Pioneering the way for direct shipment of canned salmon from Alaskan ports to the eastern coast of the United States via the Panama...
Rainfall sets record and brings landslide
Mitkof Island experienced record breaking rainfall on Saturday, according to data from the National...
Yesterday's News
August 17, 1923 – Word has been received from Juneau that a force of men will arrive here soon to finish the Petersburg Scow Bay road this fall. T...
Crew member on Petersburg-based seiner perishes near Point Warde
A crew member on the F/V Legacy, a Petersburg-based seiner, died earlier this month while fishing about 30 miles southeast of Wrangell, according to...
Assembly appeals ADNR municipal land selection decision
The Petersburg Borough Assembly voted to appeal an Alaska Department of Natural Resources decision...
Forest Service working to clear Petersburg Lake Trail
U.S. Forest Service personnel have spent the summer cutting through debris along the popular...
Budworm outbreak shows signs of ebbing throughout Tongass
Scientists and staff with the U.S. Forest Service are hopeful that the blackheaded budworm outbreak...
Informational signs on Indigenous culture coming to Sandy Beach
Four interpretive signs detailing the cultural and natural history of Sandy Beach are set to be...
Obituary
John Edgington was born in southern California and after high school he went to Alaska for the... Full story
Thirty-seven years in the making, Hoopie Davidson's chess set is complete
Before becoming one of Petersburg's favorite school bus drivers Hoopie Davidson started making a... Full story
PVFD recognized by assembly for Catholic Church fire response
The Petersburg Borough Assembly recognized Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department staff and...
Find an unknown salmon creek and earn $100
Up until last year, Southeast Alaska’s Mitkof Island was home to a creek with some unique salmon: They only turned left. Officially, anyway. There i...
Forest Service reminds public of unguided Anan permits
WRANGELL — The U.S. Forest Service again this year is making available permits for unguided visits to the Anan Wildlife Observatory, limited to f...
