Author: Leila Kheiry

Local projects don’t make governor’s budget

Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Island didn’t fare too well in the governor’s proposed Fiscal Year 2015 budget.

Expected telephone outage for AT&T upgrade

Some Ketchikan residents will experience a disruption in their long-distance or cellular telephone service Friday night, lasting until early Saturday morning.

USFS taking comments on Soule River dam EA

The Environmental Assessment would authorize exploration of the remote-recreation site for potential development.

Gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker visits Ketchikan

Walker’s talk focused on his current job as general counsel to the Alaska Gasline Port Authority rather than his campaign, but he did stray a couple of times into politics.

Fault in Swan Lake power line causes outage

At deadline, the exact cause of the outage was still under investigation, but a KPU official guessed it was the result of a landslide or a tree falling into the line.