Ketchikan News Archives

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.

Eyes wide, she grabbed the hand of her adult guardian and pulled her toward the window where they stood for a happy minute, pointing at the fish and myriad other marine critters that inhabit the sea-water tank.

A SAFETY device created in North Wales for cruise passengers at sea helped "save" hundreds of lives in a major sea exercise in Alaska.

PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia - Petty Officer 1st Class Cody Howard a resident of Mobile, Ala., Seaman Michael Glewwy a resident of Live Oak, Calif.

The Empire's "Attack On A Tax" article is a good beginning in educating its readership about the important public debate over our state's cruise tourism future.

Submitted by Joe Campbell on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 09:10. Plans for Alaska's so-called Bridge to Nowhere are long scrapped, but the state continues to look for ways to improve access between the Panhandle town of Ketchikan and its airport on nearby Gravina Island.

Seated by a window table in the dining room, I start to hear the commotion. People are jumping to their feet and pointing out to sea.