City officials are looking into the legality of the deal after a member of the City Council raised questions about whether the city could, in effect, advertise for Royal Caribbean by placing the cruise line’s logo and promotional text on city-owned educational placards along Ketchikan Creek.
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State ferries haven’t run the 120-mile route linking the panhandle with the northern British Columbia road system since 2019. But Ketchikan independent Rep. Dan Ortiz says plans to resume service by May 1 are on track.
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Documentary filmmaker Ward Serrill says the isolation of Southeast Alaska was key to getting to know himself during his young adulthood in the 1980s and ‘90s.
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Regulators in Canada have granted a two-year extension for the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell mine’s environmental review which will effectively give the project’s owners until July 2026 to find major investors.
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A two-month comment period is open as the Biden administration says it’s pivoting from commercial logging to tourism and fisheries as key to economic development for Southeast Alaska’s federal forestlands. Alaska’s elected leaders have called the restrictions federal overreach that could hinder resource extraction and hurt the region’s economy.
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After COVID-19 hospitalizations in Ketchikan hit a record high last week, public health officials asked local officials to step up their public pandemic messaging.
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The Biden administration says it’s taking formal steps to restore Roadless Rule protections to more than half of the Tongass National Forest. It’s the latest turn in decades of fighting over access to Southeast Alaska’s federal forestlands for logging, energy and mining.
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Under the new rules, masks will be optional at Ketchikan schools when fewer than 50 COVID-19 cases are active in the community. The change comes as cases and hospitalizations are near record levels, straining some medical resources.
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