The CDC’s no-sail order has expired. In its place is a 40-page framework that requires comprehensive testing and for cruise lines to obtain permission to bring ships into port communities.
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A century-old family business in Ketchikan was hit by a natural calamity earlier this year. A...
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The U.S. Forest Service says lifting the Roadless Rule would open up about 168,000 old-growth acres to potential logging. That’s about 2% of the area protected by the rule, or 1% of the total Tongass.
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A 16-day wolf trapping season is proposed on and around Prince of Wales Island. That’s following release of 2019 figures that project last year’s record harvest took more than half of the Alexander Archipelago wolf population.
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Slides are blocking traffic on a key highway linking Klawock and Craig with smaller communities. Three additional slides have blocked a road south of Craig.
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It’s the end of the line for Prince of Wales timber sale halted by conservationists in court. But the U.S. Forest Service is already working on a small project that would offer some of the same old growth trees for commercial logging.
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State officials say the 2019 population estimate for Prince of Wales Island’s grey wolf population is complete. But wildlife agencies aren’t releasing those numbers before finalizing the winter hunting and trapping season.
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With a split vote, the Ketchikan City Council opted to continue to manage its cruise ship docks...
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