Ketchikan’s city and borough governments recently passed laws to start collecting sales tax on goods and services purchased on board cruise ships while they’re docked in the First City.
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A cannery in Southeast Alaska is at the forefront of America’s tinned fish renaissance
In recent years, the U.S. market for tinned seafood has surged by billions of dollars and boutique branded cans of fish are trending on TikTok. At the head of this swell is a small cannery on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska.
Delta pulls out of Ketchikan and Sitka, leaving Alaska Airlines as the only major carrier
Alaska Airlines says it won’t raise fares, but competition from Delta has meant lower prices in cities across the state.
‘World’s largest undeveloped gold mine’ faces legal challenges from Canada and Alaska tribal nations
The Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission says the outcome of the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell project, if it moves forward, “is really anybody’s guess.”
With Trump’s new pro-timber order, Alaska conservationists poised to rehash Tongass Roadless Rule
It’s possible the current administration could completely remove the Roadless Rule in short order and begin fielding proposals for new logging roads through the forest.
Washington state man dies while exploring abandoned mine on Prince of Wales
While deep within one of the mine shafts, the man suffered a medical emergency, which those with him believed was a heart attack.