Nearly 200 people testified at 18 hearings last year specifically geared towards people who rely on the forest for their way of life — and large majorities supported keeping the rule in place.
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Ketchikan Borough Assembly passes pro-police resolution seen as ‘backlash’ to LGBTQ rights measure
The borough mayor broke a 3-3 tie, passing a resolution calling on the the state legislature to add police officers to the list of classes protected from discrimination.
Misprinted absentee ballot envelopes prompt Ketchikan officials to ask residents to double-check addresses
Ketchikan election officials say more than a dozen registered voters were mailed absentee ballot envelopes with the wrong return address.
Visible haze from Lower 48 wildfires makes it to Ketchikan, but air quality in the region is still good
Smoke from the record wildfire season in California and the Pacific Northwest has been visible all over the northern half of the Lower 48.
$500 million in federal help now available for fishermen hurt by trade war
Thousands of U.S. fishermen could be eligible for a new program designed to help fishermen hurt by the tariff on seafood.
‘What you thought you were getting with Trump’: Libertarian candidate campaigns in Ketchikan
On a four-city tour of Alaska, the Libertarian Party nominee suggested selling all federal lands and removing all subsidies from fossil fuels.