Ketchikan city council’s plan to revamp its cruise ship docks attracted a full house Thursday evening. Residents raised concerns over handing management of city-owned berths to a private operator. The city is also moving forward with buying up a shuttered restaurant to create more harborside parking.
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Ketchikan’s City Council will return to a familiar question for its first meeting of the new year: should the city purchase a downtown property to add about 60 harborside parking spaces?
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A Ketchikan woman has been charged with felony arson. That’s following an early Tuesday morning fire that heavily damaged her ex-boyfriend’s rural home on North Tongass Highway. And a sworn statement by police indicates that an Alaska State Trooper may have driven her to the scene of the crime.
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Ketchikan’s School Board voted 4-2 on Dec. 27 to open contract negotiations with Interim Superintendent Beth Lougee.
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Chinook salmon, also known as king salmon, are getting smaller, and a team of scientists at the University of Washington think they know why. A new study says killer whales might be behind Chinook’s declining size.
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