Author: Leila Kheiry

Kayhi senior wins state VFW essay contest

Ketchikan High School senior Marco Torres was honored at Thursday’s Ketchikan School Board meeting by local representatives of the Alaska Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Third sales-tax holiday planned for fall

Last fall was the second annual sales tax holiday, and it was popular enough that the community wants to do it again.

Subsistence eulachon fishery closed again

Citing anticipated low returns, Ketchikan-Misty Fiords District Ranger Jeff DeFreest has closed District 1-area federal waters to eulachon fishing through the end of April.

School Board rejects purchase of new laptops

A poorly worded agenda statement led the Ketchikan School Board to unanimously reject a motion to purchase about $60,000 worth of new laptop computers.

Senators reintroduce bill to repeal Roadless Rule

Calling it a “cookie-cutter” approach that is “stifling the Southeast Alaska economy,” Alaska’s two senators are co-sponsoring legislation to repeal the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule.