Author: Hunter Morrison

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. 

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.

The Ketchikan Indian Community purchased a former resort north of town with the goal of converting it into an addiction healing center. But a handful of residents in the neighborhood expressed opposition for the project at a recent borough planning commission meeting.