Ketchikan News

KETCHIKAN, ALASKA The debate over what to do with the Ketchikan Gateway Borough's portion of the former Ketchikan Pulp Mill site will continue for now.

United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today, November 9, 2009, that Eulogio Seludo, a resident of Ketchikan, Alaska, was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage to 63 months for his convictions of trafficking methamphetamine in Ketchikan.

Industry representatives told the state House Finance Committee Wednesday that small businesses battered by this year's decline in visitors cannot suppply the funds themselves.

The Alaska Marine Highway System ferries LeConte and Fairweather returned to service last week following regularly scheduled overhauls.

ALASKA STATE MUSEUM, 395 WHITTIER ST. Three solo exhibits will open at the museum this Friday, each of which will be on display through Jan.

KETCHIKAN, ALASKA Hundreds of area residents are expected to flock to this weekend's annual Ketchikan Health Fair.

Link: Juneau Empire The Coast Guard is looking to move into the realm of heating with biomass products, and the first project it's considering is in Southeast Alaska.

InnerSea Discoveries is a new brand created by the owner of American Safari Cruises, which has operated luxury yacht cruises in Alaska since 1997.

A plan to move away from oil-fired burners by the U.S. Coast Guard in Southeast Alaska could provide a spark for the region's foundering timber industry.

For the first time, Holland America Line's flagship ms Rotterdam will sail from Seattle to Alaska in 2010, featuring convenient, seven-day, roundtrip cruises.

The Coast Guard is recognizing the crew of the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Taku in a ceremony today for their rescue of two men off the fishing vessel Alaskan Pride in Chatham Strait last week.

Juneau's unemployment rate climbed to 5.7 percent in September, with more than 1,000 residents unemployed, as employment in seasonal industries such at fishing and tourism dropped off.

For the past 10, Jan Haynes has taught at the same school, this year in the universal preschool.

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While Alaska is feeling the effects of the down economy, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough is deflecting some of the economic problems with a string of important projects.

Things are slow? Don't tell that to the Mat-Su Borough. A gradual slowdown of Alaska's economy is affecting the sprawling Matanuska-Susitna Borough along with the rest of the state, but the borough government is hustling a string of projects that is taking some of the sting out of the slowdown and laying a foundation of long-needed regional ...

Former Gov. Frank Murkowski speaks to a group at the First Bank Building in Ketchikan.

Some Alaska ports of call have asked the Environmental Protection Agency to rethink - or at least slow down - its plans to impose stricter air quality requirements for cruise ships and other large oceangoing vessels.

Ketchikan, Alaska, may be known as the 'salmon capital of the world', but for these whales and seagulls, the schools of herring swimming in local waters proved much more of an appetising meal.

Concerns about plant and animal invaders in Alaska will bring scientists, experts and citizens' groups together in Ketchikan Oct.