Author: Eric Stone

Staff, residents in good spirits as 24-hour shelter opens at Ketchikan rec center

Ketchikan doesn’t usually have a 24-hour homeless shelter. Both downtown facilities are ordinarily...

Craig confirms first case of COVID-19

State public health officials are still investigating where the person may have caught the virus.

All 14 coronavirus patients in Ketchikan have recovered. So what’s next?

“We’re not in this for the short term right now. We’re in it for the long term,” emergency manager Abner Hoage told KRBD. “Exactly how long that long term is, I don’t yet know.”

PeaceHealth names new chief of Ketchikan hospital

PeaceHealth says incoming chief administrator Dori Stevens is familiar with life in an isolated community — she spent a decade working at a hospital in Honolulu.