The group also spotted an exceptional number of species.
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Trident Seafoods to sell Petersburg and Ketchikan processing plants
The company’s cost-cutting efforts also include laying off about a tenth of its corporate staff.
A Petersburg family is trying to change Alaska’s workers’ comp laws in honor of their daughter
One family in Petersburg, whose only daughter was killed on the job, is trying to change Alaska’s workers compensation laws.
Alaska Seaplanes to close Petersburg and Wrangell locations
Alaska Seaplanes is the only commuter airline service in competition with Alaska Airlines in Southeast Alaska.
A large increase in trash shipping costs in Southeast Alaska has leaders exploring solutions
Trash disposal in Southeast Alaska is expensive — and complicated.
Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell summit Devil’s Thumb, with help from a local climbing legend
“There’s just nobody else that knows nearly as much about Devil’s Thumb,” Honnold said of Dieter Klose. “He’s like, the local custodian — just, like, managing the mountain.”
First climber born and raised in Petersburg summits Devils Thumb
To locals, the Thumb is as much a part of Petersburg as the rain and the smell of fish in summertime. That’s part of the reason 35-year-old Kyle Knight wanted to climb the mountain.
Petersburg needs 300 houses in the next decade, survey shows
“It’s pretty simple,” one assembly member said. “If we don’t deal with it, we won’t have as many people in town.”
With prices low, many fishermen are skipping Southeast’s Dungeness crab season
OBI Seafoods says there’s still a lot of Dungeness crab left over from last year — it’s expensive and customers just aren’t buying it.
Halloween landslide in Petersburg takes out power, phones and internet
As of Monday night, there were no known injuries and no houses were known to be damaged.