Ketchikan News

The Ketchikan School Board on Wednesday night decided to move forward with an application for a No Child Left Behind Grant.

New shuttle ferries are slated to be built at the Ketchikan Shipyard, operated by Alaska Ship and Drydock.

The Alaska Housing Finance Corp. is seeking comments on a plan to ban smoking in more than 600 of its public housing units.

Rick Fritsch, a lead forecaster with the National Weather Service in Juneau looks at weather trends in the Ketchikan Area and discusses Global Climate Change.

The Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center board reached within its ranks for a new executive director and has named board member Jim Lavrakas to succeed current director Monte Davis after Davis leaves Homer in mid-August. "Jim is passionate about Homer and we are excited about moving forward with Jim at the helm," board president Pat Melone ... (more)

Gary Freitag works the controls for the underwater Remote Operated Vehicle while Ketchikan High School oceanography students watch the ROV's live video feed.

The board will vote Wednesday to approve $27,000 for staff training on Apple computers.

The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly added $300,000 in local funding to the school district budget Monday before approving the document in second reading.

Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Ketchikan Saturday afternoon to break the Guinness World Record for the largest rainboot race.

Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Ketchikan Saturday afternoon to break the Guinness World Record for the largest rainboot race.

"I'm at a phase of practice where I need to cut back," said the now semi-retired psychiatrist, who's spent a few days a month for the past three decades serving Ketchikan's mental health needs.

HAINES, Alaska -- If I bend over any farther, I will be swimming with the tadpoles.

Even for Southeast Alaska, this is a lot of rain. Teams of at least a dozen men at a time slog through downpour, grunting and groaning as they carry the nearly 1000-pound load the few hundred feet that may as well have been miles.

This graphic image provided by Forest Service Geologist Jim Baichtal shows the newly discovered volcano in Behm Canal near Misty Fiords National Monument.

Passengers board the ferry Malaspina while vehicles wait to load at the Auke Bay terminal in Juneau.

Saturday, May18th, is the Ketchikan Rain Boot Run - an attempt to break a Guinness world record for the most people running/walking in rubber boots.

Juneau parking violators will soon get a "notice of violation" and those who want to appeal will appear before a city hearing officer, not a district court magistrate.

Eighth-graders from Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Island will gather at Schoenbar Middle School and the UAS Tech Center all day Thursday for the fifth annual Career Fair.

Governor Sean Parnell was in Ketchikan Saturday, and came by the KRBD station for an interview.

At about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Ketchikan Troopers received a 911 call from a 35-year-old Georgia man, reporting that he and his 14-year-old son were stranded near the Harris River Drainage near Hollis on Prince of Wales Island.