Swastika appears on South Tongass Highway, the second incident of racist vandalism in less than a week
The spray-painted anti-Semitic and white supremacist symbol drew widespread condemnation from community members.
Read Moreby Eric Stone | Apr 14, 2021 | Local News, Syndicated | 0
The spray-painted anti-Semitic and white supremacist symbol drew widespread condemnation from community members.
Read Moreby Eric Stone | Feb 9, 2021 | Local News, Syndicated | 0
Alaska State Troopers reported Tuesday that authorities had seized a half pound of heroin and more than 200 illicit pills during a Friday bust at Ketchikan International Airport.
Read Moreby Eric Stone | Apr 17, 2020 | Local News, Syndicated | 0
officials in Thorne Bay say they’re having trouble enforcing state and local emergency orders requiring that most out-of-state travelers quarantine for 14 days upon arrival.
Read Moreby Eric Stone | Apr 14, 2020 | Local News, Syndicated | 0
“Nobody’s taking it seriously,” said Ketchikan hardware store manager Janice Walker. “And why should they? If nobody’s going to do anything, why bother?”
Read Moreby Eric Stone | Dec 31, 2019 | Local News, Syndicated | 0
A Ketchikan woman has been charged with felony arson. That’s following an early Tuesday morning fire that heavily damaged her ex-boyfriend’s rural home on North Tongass Highway. And a sworn statement by police indicates that an Alaska State Trooper may have driven her to the scene of the crime.
Read Moreby Eric Stone | Dec 13, 2019 | Local News, Syndicated | 0
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.
Read Moreby Eric Stone | Dec 9, 2019 | Local News, Syndicated | 0
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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