Candidate Forums on KRBD
Mark your calendars! KRBD is hosting live forums with candidates for local office. Here are the times to tune in: Borough Assembly – Friday, 9/13 – 6-7 pm City Mayor – Wednesday 9/18 – 6-6:30 pm House District...
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Tag: Ketchikan City Council
Ketchikan City Council to increase water and electric rates
Ketchikan City Council raises utility rates among claims by KPU of underfunding and infrastructure failure.
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Ketchikan grand jury indicts four on felony drug trafficking, downtown business owners frustrated
A Ketchikan grand jury last week indicted four people and police arrested another on felony drug charges. That adds them to a growing list of roughly 20 people actively facing felony charges for fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine in the city. Outside the courtroom though, the broader community is bearing the brunt. The topic came up at a Ketchikan City Council meeting on December 11.
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Ketchikan City Council candidate gets protective order against another candidate
On September 18, Ketchikan District Court Judge Kristian Pickrell approved a one-year protective order requested by Judy Zenge against Brian Buchman. Zenge was concerned about Buchman stalking her.
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Ketchikan City Council green-lights local hiring preference for city and borough residents
City Council members acknowledged that the move was largely symbolic.
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Ketchikan officials to crack down on camping in some city-owned parking lots after new measure passes City Council
City officials cited complaints from downtown residents about noise, theft and drug use at an Edmonds Street parking lot just a block away from Ketchikan’s police station as the impetus for a measure that strengthens an existing ban on overnight camping in city-owned parking lots.
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Ketchikan City Council to consider new port director and finalize parking lot camping restrictions
Ketchikan has been without a port and harbors director since Steve Corporon retired in November 2020.
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ATVs are road-legal in Ketchikan after City Council declines to ban four-wheelers from city streets
While they’re legal in Ketchikan, some Prince of Wales Island communities have restricted the use of ATVs on city streets. A working group in Craig is studying the issue.
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