Ketchikan, Alaska — The Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) has received approval from the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly to rezone key portions of the Salmon Falls property to General Commercial, marking a significant milestone in the Tribe’s efforts to develop a Tribally led, integrated Community Healing and Wellness Center. The Assembly’s decision to rezone three primary […]
A free two-day workshop is planned in Craig and Klawock for participants to learn about milling and drying lumber, with an opportunity to earn an Alaska lumber grading certificate. Matt Labrenz, forest products specialist with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, will lead the workshop April 22-23. The Alaska Lumber Grading program […]
(Juneau, AK) – Monday, a Juneau jury found John “J.P.” Buller, 40, of Yakutat guilty of Sexual Assault in the Second Degree, Sexual Assault in the Third Degree, and Attempted Sexual Assault in the Second Degree following a three-day trial. Evidence at trial indicated that Buller had sexually assaulted one woman in Dec. 2023 […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – Following a five-day trial, a federal jury convicted a Washington man Wednesday of distributing fentanyl pills that resulted in the overdose death of two men in Skagway. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, between Jan. 1 to 13, 2023, Jacob Cotton, 34, of Spokane, Washington, agreed to sell […]
