Author: Maria Dudzak

Assembly cuts library funding

The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly voted to cut its share of funding for the city-owned Ketchikan Public Library.

OceansAlaska grant money not carried over

Borough Assembly votes against carrying over funding for OceansAlaska into next fiscal year, but may revisit the issue.

Four running for House District 36

Three candidates will vie for the Republican nomination on the August primary ballot; all are from Ketchikan. The winner will face independent Dan Ortiz in the General Election.

KGB and State argue education funding

Judge William Carey heard oral arguments in Ketchikan Superior Court this morning in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough’s lawsuit against the state over education funding.

Murkowski’s chief of staff tells the good and bad

If Republicans reclaim the Senate this fall, Alaska’s Lia Murkowki would be the chair of the Senate Energy Committee. If not, she would lose standing in that committee. That was the message from Murkowski’s chief of staff, Edward Hild.