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ADN editors find the news from all over Alaska every morning so you don't have to.

Ketchikan Ketchikan is Alaska's southernmost major city. Its waterfront buildings rise above Tongass Narrows supported by a forest of pilings and joined together by a picturesque boardwalk.

Published: May 15th, 2008 12:16 AM Last Modified: May 15th, 2008 01:01 AM KETCHIKAN POPULATION: 7,622 LOCATION: On the southwestern coast of Revillagigedo Island, near the southern boundary of Alaska, 235 miles ... via Anchorage Daily News

Wainwright high school students Nellie Aguvluk, left, Alyssa Rae Agnasagga and Cynthia Ekak watch carver Fred Trout work on a pole for Saxman Totem Park on Thursday at the Saxman Carving Center in Saxman, near ... via Juneau Empire

“When I came here the diocese was divided and that was because of the bishop prior to me”

ADN editors find the news from all over Alaska every morning so you don't have to. via Anchorage Daily News

“It's like Christmas in spring”

From our friends at the Ketchikan Daily News comes a powerful reason why Gov. Sarah Palin should save the state hundreds of millions of dollars and veto projects in the excessive capital budget. via Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

“There are a lot of moving parts, and we are just going to have to spend some time trying to figure out what we have here.”

' It could be one for the record books. The latest version of the capital budget has something for everyone, whether a columbarium for a Kasilof cemetery, a wood chipper in Tok, restoration of a totem pole in ... via Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

It's sure to be one for the record books. The latest version of the capital budget has something for everyone: from the restoration of a totem pole in Saxman to a new roof over the Kotzebue armory. via KTVA Anchorage

“You could feel the whole hull vibrate”

ADN editors find the news from all over Alaska every morning so you don't have to. via Anchorage Daily News

“My grandmothers and my great-grandparents lay in Mother Earth up here, in the state of Alaska - not in California”

Sealaska, Southeast's regional Native corporation, has drawn disapproval from some local shareholders for scheduling its annual meeting in San Francisco instead of an Alaska city. via Juneau Empire

Gold made Alaska famous at the turn of the last century. The Klondike gold rush and other gold strikes brought swarms of prospectors to Alaska and Canada's Yukon Territory. via Reno Gazette-Journal

A yearly boat procession in around Ketchikan is set for Dec. 23. The 26th annual Tongass Narrows Boat Parade is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. near Peninsula Point. via KTVF Fairbanks

“Politically, we've been able to combine our resources to raise awareness ... and articulate common interests”

TEACHING BUSINESS: Small Native organizations will get input from larger ones. Published: November 16, 2007 Last Modified: November 16, 2007 at 01:43 AM Alaska's Native village corporations have decided to do ... via Anchorage Daily News

In the land of tall cedars, the people carve their lives and their family histories. via Waller County Texas News Citizen

For this week's show we're visiting the country's largest state, a place where there are more glaciers than stop lights, more mountains than buildings and more wildlife than people: Alaska. via KING5 Seattle News

This is the day. Ketchikan area voters will be asked to decide who their newest local leaders are, and at least one ballot question . via Ketchikan Daily News