Ketchikan, AK — Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) is thrilled to announce that Ketchikan has been officially reclassified as a “Rural” community on the Federal Register by the Federal Subsistence Board. This long-awaited change restores many of our Tribal citizen’s traditional harvesting rights, granting priority subsistence rights to all Ketchikan’s rural residents on federal public lands […]
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Due to reduced wildland fire activity and successful suppression efforts on the Himalya Road Fire group, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Eastern Interior Field Office issued a fire closure order to reduce the area closed in the western portion of the White Mountains National Recreation Area. Fire order AK020-25-007 immediately opens public […]
SEATTLE – Coast Guard units from throughout the Northwest District and Pacific Area are participating in Seattle Seafair and Fleetweek 2025. Coast Guardsmen assigned to Coast Guard Station Seattle, Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Teams, as well as the Coast Guard Cutter Osprey are scheduled to participate in the Parade of Ships, July 29, […]
The effects of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are winding their way through the American economy, and a new piece of analysis claims that corporate America is using them as “cover” to further jack up prices. Progressive advocacy group Groundwork Collaborative issued a new report on Tuesday that uses corporate executives’ own words to show how many firms […]