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Wearable gets weird for milestone anniversary
Ketchikan's annual Wearable Art Show blends fiber, music and dancing in a wintertime extravaganza aimed at brightening the region’s dreariest days. The community pillar has now been an integral part of the city's culture for 40 years.
Ketchikan shipyard employment, business volume increases under new leadership
Employees at Southeast Alaska’s only major shipyard have been busy since JAG Marine Group took charge of the state-owned facility last fall. That’s because the switchover came with increases to both business volume and job opportunities.
Ketchikan band Ratfish Wranglers on their new album and the magic of live performance
The latest from The Ratfish Wranglers is a live album from their performance at Centennial Hall...
Protestors push back against ICE in downtown demonstration
A few dozen protestors gathered outside the Federal Building on Saturday, Jan. 31. The protest was...
Station Highlights
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KRBD announces new App available for Apple and Android
KRBD has an App! Search “KRBD” in your App Store or Google Play Store and download the...
KRBD 50 Year History Moments with Dave Kiffer
Have you been keeping up with the story? If you’ve missed a moment or two, don’t...
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Our 50 Year Birthday Logo Contest Deadline is extended to January 8, 2026!
KRBD Annual On-Air Board Meeting
KRBD’s Annual On-Air Board of Directors Meeting will be on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 5pm. This will be a short meeting to meet our board members, hear a status report on how we’re doing in this unprecedented...
Morning Edition Interviews
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Ketchikan volunteers address food insecurity
Diane Gubatayao and Peter Epler are just two of the volunteers trying to address food insecurity...
UAS Ketchikan instructors talk welding and power technology courses
UAS Ketchikan Maritime instructors talk welding and power technology course opportunities.
Ketchikan, Saxman will transition to new emergency alert software
The Ketchikan Gateway Borough, City of Ketchikan and City of Saxman will transition its emergency alert software from Nixle to Everbridge on Jan. 30.
Community Reports
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Museum report
The Tongass Historical Museum will soon unveil a new exhibit about cedar, and the Totem Heritage...
Job Center Report
Hear about some of the more than 500 jobs available in the Ketchikan area and other services...
SAIL and ORCA report
Hear about some of the services offered, an upcoming Spring Break event for high school students,...
Southeast News
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Conservative enrollment estimate leaves school board with additional funds
The Sitka School District will receive close to $1 million in additional revenue for the remainder of this fiscal year. At the Sitka School Board meeting on Wednesday (2-4-26), Superintendent Deidre Jenson said because of...
Assembly signals plan to keep funding schools to cap
The Sitka Assembly will likely fund schools to the cap again this year, or the maximum allowed by state law. At a joint meeting with the Sitka School Board on Thursday (2-6-26), assembly members shared their intentions to not...
Wrangell assembly preview: JAG Marine and inactive vessels
Wrangell City Hall on June 26, 2024. (Colette Czarnecki/KSTK) Wrangell’s Borough Assembly on...
Alaska News
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Bethel Sen. Hoffman says ‘it’s time’ as he prepares to wrap up 40-year career in state politics
Hoffman recently visited his hometown, where he says he plans to spend some quality time after...
Washington and other Democratic-led states drop lawsuit against Arctic Refuge oil drilling in Alaska
A group of environmental and tribal groups had filed suit in 2020 at the same time as the...
State closes Kenai River sport king fishery, limits Kasilof king sport fishery
The state’s sport fishing division issued a flurry of emergency orders Monday that target...
NPR
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The airspace around El Paso is open again. Why it closed is in dispute
The Federal Aviation Administration abruptly closed the airspace around El Paso, only to reopen it...
A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted of sexually abusing children
A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol...
What are the latest developments in the Jeffrey Epstein case?
Journalist Vicky Ward first profiled sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. She discusses the fallout from the millions of publicly released documents, and why this story took so long to come out.
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