Three people were arrested on Prince of Wales Island after postal inspectors and state troopers found nearly one-and-a-half ounces of methamphetamine in a package bound for a logging camp near Keete Inlet. That’s according to a state trooper dispatch dated Thursday.
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Tribal leaders will have more input on school hiring in Ketchikan after the school board approved a plan in a split vote Wednesday night. In an unrelated matter, the Ketchikan board will be looking for a new board president in January.
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A Prince of Wales Island man convicted of murdering his girlfriend in 2016 was sentenced to 99 years in prison on Tuesday, Dec. 10.
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Local officials are pushing back against a plan to close Ketchikan’s state trooper dispatch center, and to relocate its seven staff to Anchorage. The plan — which also includes transferring dispatchers in Wasilla and Soldotna — was the subject of much concern at the latest meeting of the Ketchikan Borough assembly, whose mayor believes that centralizing dispatch operations could leave Southeast communities high and dry in a disaster.
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Black Friday marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, and for some retailers, that...
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24-year-old Timothy Alan Ryan was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Preston Atwood in Seward last August.
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Ketchikan Fire Marshal Andrea Buchanan says a power strip sparked the Sunday night house fire at 1776 First Avenue.
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Kacie Paxton with (from left) borough mayor Rodney Dial and former mayors Dave Kiffer and David...
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