KRBD - Ketchikan

Experts who have experience with Alaska’s new elections system have some advice: educate and test.

Freezing temperatures in Ketchikan brought the mercury down to single digits at night and in the 20s during the day in Ketchikan in early February. That’s thought to have caused a pipe to burst on the top floor of the Zeigler building at UAS.

Ketchikan beaches have elevated levels of bacteria that could make people sick even without dozens of cruise ships sailing through the Inside Passage and discharging wastewater.

Some Ketchikan businesses managed to limp through 2020 but wonder how they’ll survive a second season without cruise visitors.

The Wrangell-bound Boeing 737-790 turned back about five minutes after taking off “out of an abundance of caution,” according to the airline.

Attorneys for the state argued that Congress never intended to grant Metlakatla the fishing rights the tribe claimed.

Despite the expected multimillion-dollar shortfall, officials say the borough won’t burn through all of its savings.

She had recently returned to work from bereavement leave after losing her husband to complications from COVID-19 last month.

Jackson is primarily known for carving totem poles, masks and wood panels, but he also draws, paints and makes jewelry.

Authorities arrested 27-year-old woman from Prince of Wales Island who allegedly brought the drugs in on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle.