KRBD - Ketchikan

Board President Kim Hodne said that he hoped the move was the start of a lasting tradition. The vote was unanimous.

Metlakatla avoided the coronavirus for nearly eight months, but that streak ended Thursday.

The Trump administration’s decision could be reversed through a court challenge or an act of Congress. Alternatively, another presidential administration could revisit the rule — but that would require public comment, meetings and another multi-year process.

Local and state transportation crews are responding to landslides that are blocking roads on Prince of Wales Island.

The tribe says the state doesn’t have the right to require state fishing permits for tribal citizens in state waters.

Business owners and local officials say they’re worried that keeping guests in a bubble would squeeze out most of Southeast Alaska’s small tour companies, retailers and restaurants.

In its outlook for October, November and December, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center said Southeast has equal chances of temperatures and precipitation that are above, below and near normal.

Congressman Don Young said he thinks the state should be the one deciding whether or not the mine goes forward.

Becker refused to walk back the statements condemned as offensive stereotypes of Alaska Native communities — instead, she read them aloud inside the Metlakatla Longhouse.

News outlet Axios reports that the CDC pushed to extend an order barring large cruise ships from sailing from U.S. ports, but the agency was overruled by Vice President Mike Pence.