Author: Eric Stone

In Ketchikan, district officials are looking at cutting nearly 60 positions, but they’re hopeful that the Alaska Legislature will ease the pressure by boosting state education funding.

Local governments around Southeast Alaska are speaking out against a lawsuit that threatens to shut down trolling for king salmon across the region this year.

A federal appeals court has affirmed Metlakatla tribal members’ right to fish in their traditional waters without state permits. But a new opinion issued Tuesday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals leaves open the question of where exactly those traditional fishing grounds are.

Mary Lynne Dahl and her husband Jim were in Smithers, BC when crews discovered crumbling asbestos and corroded steel on the ferry that brought them to Prince Rupert. Now, they’re facing a 13-hour drive and a two-day ferry ride to get home.