Author: Leila Kheiry

The Ketchikan City Council meets Thursday night, and will consider moving forward with plans to demolish the old hospital, also called Bawden Street Apartments.

Experts pretty much agree with the overall message of a recent warning from the state Department of Health and Social Services: Don’t eat personally harvested shellfish, ever. The science methods cited by the state, however, have raised the eyebrows of a couple of aquaculture researchers. They say high toxin levels in algae blooms don’t necessarily mean poisonous shellfish.

NOAA scientists have completed the Southeast phase of a survey effort, looking for marine debris along Alaska’s coast, including possible debris from last year’s Japanese tsunami.

A school-bonds proposition might be on the October ballot, with about $5.5 million worth of projects identified.