Author: Leila Kheiry

The Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce hosted a four-person panel on “Growing Our Own Food” at the weekly lunch meeting Wednesday.

Ketchikan’s Emma Scott soon will head to Mobile, Alabama, to represent Alaska in the 56th annual Distinguished Young Women national scholarship competition, which is June 27 through 29.

The popular boxing and mixed-martial-arts event is drawing criticism from some city officials, who say the Ted Ferry Civic Center isn’t the right place for that kind of activity.

A Ketchikan man arrested last August on multiple drug and weapons charges pleaded guilty in Superior Court Wednesday to three charges in exchange for the prosecution dropping the rest.

This week on Street Beat, visiting tourists were asked, “What is something you’ve learned about Alaska that you did not know before?”