Ketchikan News

The Seventeenth Coast Guard District Command Center located in Juneau, Alaska received an anonymous phone call this morning in which the caller threatened to detonate fuel tanks at the Petro Marine fuel ...

The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. has sold its interest in the Plaza Port West shopping mall in Ketchikan, its only real estate investment property in the state.

SITKA, ALASKA Sitkan Bill De Armond was born here 70 years ago in 1938, grew up and went to school in Sitka as well as Pelican, Ketchikan, and Juneau, where he finished high school.

An Alaska ferry cruises the Inside Passage. Alaska celebrates 50 years of statehood Jan.

A local road construction and maintenance official may soon sink his spade into the politically volatile earth of Southeast Alaska's transportation sector.

Three local women have opened a new spa with an aim of providing a full-spa treatment with a Ketchikan feel.

Local groups have joined together to organize 50 events for Ketchikan's celebration of 50 years of Alaska Statehood.

Crystal Cruises returns to Alaska for the first time since 2005 with a single early season itinerary departing Yokohama April 16.

An ancient mariner who lived and died 10,000 years ago on an island west of Ketchikan probably doesn't have any close relatives left in Alaska.

A Craig man faces three years in prison after illegally hunting and selling sea otter hides and skulls to undercover agents.

The Alaska Cruise Association has been rallying support around the state to loosen water pollution standards set in the 2006 cruise ship initiative approved by Alaska voters.

A new district ranger has been named for the Black Hills' Hell Canyon near Custer.

Fear of potential fisheries legislation influenced by politicians and anglers in the Matanuska-Susitna region has spurred the city of Kenai to form a salmon task force.

A blast of winter in the nation's northern tier stranded travelers far and wide Sunday just a few days before Christmas, with dozens of flights delayed or canceled and bus passengers sleeping on cardboard at a ...

As its title indicates, David Vann covers some very shadowy territory in his fiction debut.

Borough officials approved just one project with money collected from a cruise ship commercial passenger fund, leaving others on the table for a January meeting.

Beatriz A. Martinez Quiroz and Ricardo T. Quiroz will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Dec.

After years of catering primarily to Juneau's summer tourists, the Red Dog Saloon is under new ownership and ready to fully embrace the locals.

There won't be any Alaska Airlines flights into and from the Southeast Alaska community of Petersburg from March 23-April 21.

KETCHIKAN, ALASKA Weather conditions and a pilot's 'poor decision-making and inadequate planning' on take-off contributed to a fatal plane crash in Traitor's Cove near Ketchikan last summer.