Author: Leila Kheiry

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

The U.S. Forest Service has announced the dates for this year’s Youth Fishing days.

A jury has been chosen, and the trial has begun in the case of a Metlakatla man accused of killing his aunt last September.

According to The Associated Press, Ketchikan’s Barbara Bigelow soon will be the new administrator for Providence Valdez Medical Center.

The boroughwide property tax rate will stay at 5 mills following Monday’s nearly five-hour Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly meeting. The proposed budget had included a half-mill property tax increase.