Category: Local News

4 questions with Ketchikan City Council candidate Jack Finnegan

by Hunter Morrison | Aug 14, 2026 | Featured News, Local News | 0

Ketchikan City Council member Jack Finnegan filed to run for reelection in the October 6 municipal election.

Gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker talks fiscal plans, resource development during trip to Ketchikan

by Sydney Dauphinais | Aug 13, 2026 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0

Walker, who served one term as governor from 2014 to 2018, is running again.

Ketchikan nonprofit awarded grant to improve scheduling for youth mental health services

by Sydney Dauphinais | Aug 13, 2026 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0

This award is part of the first round of a series of funding announcements from the state’s Rural Health Transformation Program.

Parts of Southeast Alaska under heat advisories this week

by Angela Denning, CoastAlaska | Aug 12, 2026 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0

Communities in the southern part of the region are under heat advisories for parts of this week, with temperatures forecast in the low 80s. That includes the Ketchikan area and communities on Prince of Wales Island. Haines and Skagway in Lynn Canal in the northern part of the region also have advisories.

School districts on Prince of Wales join forces to revive island’s career and technical education

by Hunter Morrison | Aug 11, 2026 | Local News, Syndicated | 0

There are few places on Prince of Wales Island to learn the ins and outs of construction work, but a new high school class is looking to change that. It’s the start of one school district’s push to bring back the island’s career and technical education programming.