KRBD - Ketchikan

Eleven residents and two staff members have been diagnosed with the disease.

The budget proposed by the Finance Committee would have put away $1.2 billion in state savings accounts. But the plan that emerged from the Senate would take almost as much from savings, according to committee co-chair Sen. Bert Stedman.

The amendment adding energy relief payments passed 12-7 on a bipartisan basis with several members crossing caucus lines.

Statewide, officials say nearly 60% of fatal drug overdoses involved fentanyl.

Though it’s not clear how full the ships will be, the Ketchikan Visitors Bureau is projecting a record 637 port calls by 48 ships this year.

Officials in Ketchikan are expecting a soft start to the cruise season despite industry projections that passenger numbers could be nearly as high as pre-pandemic seasons.

Federal COVID-19 protocols that were mandatory for last year’s cruise season are optional now, but cruise lines visiting Alaska are still expected to follow them this year.

Investigators have not yet pointed to a cause for the crash.

A cedar monument in the park — “Thundering Wings” by Lingít master carver Nathan Jackson — depicts an eagle taking flight.

State transportation authorities announced Monday that they’d entered negotiations to sell the Malaspina to the owners of a private cruise ship dock in Ketchikan’s Ward Cove.