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Sitting Ketchikan Borough Assembly member Sharli Arntzen files for reelection The first ever female Eagle Scout was sworn in in Juneau last night
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Sitting Ketchikan Borough Assembly member Sharli Arntzen files for reelection The first ever female Eagle Scout was sworn in in Juneau last night

A man is charged with leaving the scene of an accident after crashing into a tour bus The Alaska Supreme Court hears arguments about the constitutionality of an elementary school’s bathroom policy

Local governments weigh a citizen-led ballot measure that would transfer Ketchikan’s library powers Damage to a docking facility leads the Alaska Marine Highway System to stall all operations to Skagway

Dan Ortiz has filed to run for another term on the borough assembly We hear from a Skagway resident who survived a recent landslide

Jack Finnegan has filed to run for another term on the Ketchikan City Council An aircraft made an emergency landing in the Mendenhall River in Juneau during the glacial outburst flood

Former governor and current gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker visits Ketchikan The Sitka Chamber of Commerce continues to brainstorm solutions to the towns childcare shortage

A Ketchikan nonprofit will receive a Rural Health Transformation Grant Southeast Alaska heats up

School districts on Prince of Wales join forces to revive the island’s career and technical education programming. Plus, sport fishermen in Southeast can catch more king salmon following an emergency order, and a group of Petersburg teens are performing a production of “Dracula” at the largest theater festival in the world.

Pink salmon are finally showing up in Southeast Alaska. Plus, an answer to Juneau’s plea for a solution to glacial outburst flooding is on the horizon, and a Catholic church in Petersburg gets a new building after the old one burned down.

Two teenagers who died in a dirt bike accident on Prince of Wales Island are being remembered for their golden hearts. Plus, Southeast Alaska’s commercial troll fishery will briefly close next week, and volunteers successfully free an entangled humpback whale near Petersburg.

How one southeast tribe is using AI for salmon monitoring A wildfire broke out in Haines

A hiker is rescued near George Inlet outside Ketchikan. Plus, an environmental nonprofit is undertaking a project to enhance fish habitat on Prince of Wales Island, and a skin from a humpback whale is discovered on a sunken sailboat near Glacier Bay National Park.