Ketchikan News

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.

Bob Pickrell moved to Alaska before a few years before the ferry system started up.

A Houghtaling Elementary School student is sitting pretty thanks to Ketchikan High School junior Cameron Showalter and Kayhi shop teacher Steve Thomas.

Children at an elementary school in Ketchikan have been scared by a man wearing a mask, and are being told to stay away from the field behind the school.

Taylor has been involved as a Girl Scouts volunteer for more than two decades, including as a troop leader, camp counselor and cookie manager.

The Ketchikan Gateway Borough School Board met in regular session last night. It was a productive session in terms of policy, but the citizen comment portion of the meeting grew heated.

One the top deck of the St. Nona, a couple along for the tour for tour guides looks out at New Eddystone rock, which is the hardened core left over from a volcano that has eroded away.