Author: Leila Kheiry

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.

Borough Assembly rejects Herring Cove rezone

Citing concerns about safety and added congestion Monday, the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly unanimously rejected a request to rezone a parcel in the Herring Cove area from low-density residential to general commercial.

Local nonprofits get $25K through Pick.Click.Give.

Women in Safe Homes received the most from the state charitable giving program, with $5,350 pledged; followed by First City Players, $4,850; and Ketchikan Humane Society, $3,725.