Author: Leila Kheiry

Ketchikan Indian Community has donated more than 100 computers for the local Alaska Native Brotherhood/Alaska Native Sisterhood to refurbish and distribute to people in the community.

Former U.S. Senator and Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski visited Ketchikan Wednesday, and spoke at the Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce luncheon about a proposed tunnel to link the larger community of Ketchikan to the airport on Gravina Island.

The Ketchikan School Board on Wednesday will decide whether to approve a new teachers’ contract with the Ketchikan Education Association, and will interview three candidates for a vacant board seat.

Ketchikan angler Kevin Hansen’s 43.2-pound king salmon held on to the top rung of this year’s Ketchikan CHARR King Salmon Derby, winning the three-weekend event that ended Sunday.

The Ketchikan City Council on Thursday approved the city’s mill rate, signed off on a liquor license for a new pizza restaurant on the West End and renewed the hospital lease for another decade.