Author: Leila Kheiry

Council OKs water-rate hike, SEAPA study

City water rates will go up across the board following a Ketchikan City Council vote Thursday, and the city will join other Southeast Alaska Power Agency members to fund an analysis of that agency.

Flags to be lowered Friday for victims of Helo-1 crash

Gov. Sean Parnell has ordered state flags to be flown at half-staff Friday in honor of the Alaska State Trooper and trooper pilot who were lost in the recent Helo-1 crash. State flags will remain at half-staff until Sunday at sunset.

City Council to consider water rate increase options

An ordinance calling for a water rate increase will be back in front of the Ketchikan City Council Thursday, with a few options for the Council to consider.

Local projects in draft Finance Committee budget

Ketchikan fares much better in the Senate’s Finance Committee’s draft version of the capital budget than the spending plan submitted in December by Gov. Sean Parnell.

Kanayama students drop by KRBD to chat

They’re a little shy and they giggle. A lot. But if there’s anything that a conversation through a translator with this group of 15 or so exchange students from Kanayama-Gero, Japan, reveals, teenagers are teenagers no matter where they’re from.