Author: Jack Darrell

Troopers, community search for missing Saxman man

A Saxman man was reported missing Monday at roughly 11 a.m. and Alaska State Troopers are investigating.

Ketchikan sends this year’s Together Tree to the Governor’s Mansion

During the holiday season, the Governor’s Mansion in Juneau is decorated with a tree from the Tongass National Forest. Each year, the community that provides the tree rotates. This year, it was Ketchikan’s turn.

Researchers awarded federal grant to search for rare earth elements in Prince of Wales seaweed

A team of researchers have been given almost $2 million to see if seaweed in Southeast Alaska is absorbing rare earth elements.

The rain never bothered us anyway: “Frozen” makes its Alaskan debut in Ketchikan

The drama students of Ketchikan High School are the only theater troupe in Alaska licensed to perform the official Broadway musical Frozen. The Kayhi Drama Kings were chosen by Disney in a national competition as one of 55 schools in the country given the rights to perform the play which has never before been seen off-Broadway.

Borough Assembly votes on controversial code change. But what does it have to do with the library?

A controversial – and what some called confusing – ordinance was narrowly voted down at the November 20 Ketchikan Gateway borough assembly meeting. The ordinance sought to bar assembly members from voting on outside committees. Some assembly members said the ordinance was really part of Ketchikan’s ongoing debate about banning books at the local library.