Author: Eric Stone

Ketchikan’s revised back-to-school plan increases face-to-face time, shuffles grade levels

The school district has been grappling for weeks on a reopening plan that would continue educating students while keeping everyone safe.

2 new coronavirus cases reported on Prince of Wales Island Friday

One new patient is in Craig, officials say, and the other is in an unspecified community of fewer than 1,000 people.

Alaska Republican Party sends thousands of absentee voting applications to incorrect addresses

“The printer that was hired by our consultants had a malfunction in his computer equipment, and it misaligned the names and the addresses when he was printing and did not get caught before they got mailed out,” the chair of Alaska’s Republican Party said in a phone interview.

Ketchikan emergency manager: Climbing COVID-19 case numbers could mean more ‘hunkering down’

“If we see this continue to climb, as we have this week — if that were to continue into next week, you will find me going to the mayors and asking them to declare an emergency again, potentially where we’re asking people to hunker down, and I don’t want to get to that point,” Hoage told KRBD in a phone interview Thursday.

Prince of Wales Island records one new coronavirus case in unnamed community

“The case is in a Prince of Wales community which will not be disclosed to the general public per state policy of not disclosing communities under the population of 1,000,” Craig Public Health nurse Stacey Mank said in a prerecorded message on the Prince of Wales Island COVID-19 hotline.