Ketchikan, Alaska - Most of the stories about Alaska’s involvement in World War II deal with the Japanese attack on the Aleutians and the tragic relocation of hundreds of Aleuts from their homeland to ...

Ketchikan, Alaska - When it gets a little wetter, or colder, or hotter than usual, Ketchikan residents immediately head to the historical records. Was that 5 inch rainfall the other day a record ...

Ketchikan, Alaska - A half century ago, two identical passenger planes performing identical missions crashed in the waters off Southeast Alaska. One plane, with 102 people on board, successfully ...

(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - A Ketchikan man is safe after his Ford Explorer crashed into a rock wall in front of Hometown Furnishings and burst into flames Monday afternoon. The driver, identified ...

Ketchikan, Alaska - To some Ketchikan’s downtown tunnel seems redundant. After all, according to a “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” newspaper column in 1967, it was the only tunnel in the world that could ...

Ketchikan, Alaska - Twenty years ago this week, the hammer fell on the community of Ketchikan. On March 25, 1997, Louisiana Pacific announced the closure of the Ketchikan Pulp Mill, the primary engine ...

(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - Every so often, when exploring a remote island in the Alexander Archipelago, one can come upon aset of puzzling remains. Fences and wire and sometimes dozens of rotting ...

Ketchikan, Alaska - It has been more than a century since Ketchikan was carved out of the Revillagigedo hillside and the mudflats of what was then called Fish Creek. All of the original founders are ...

(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - This summer's announcement that a multi-ship cruise terminal is planned for the old Ketchikan Pulp Mill site in Ward Cove is a reminder of the important economic role the ...

Last August, 2022, three Angoon high schoolers portaged and paddled across Admiralty Island supported by Kootznoowoo Inc., the Southeast Alaska Sustainability Strategy, and some classic hip hop. This ...

(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - Considering that Ketchikan residents spend a lot of time staring across Tongass Narrows at Gravina Island, there is a lot that most people don't know about it. Yes, we ...

(SitNews) - What is likely the most famous novel ever written in the First City was neither about Ketchikan nor even Alaska. It was written by an author considered one of the greatest Native American ...