SITKA – SEARHC announced Monday that Eric Gettis has been promoted to Vice President of Clinics. Gettis will have system-wide responsibility for creating standard operating procedures and uniform processes to improve access to care at specialty and primary care clinics and ensure alignment of patient and provider satisfaction. He will work in concert with […]
The Coast Guard and Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad located the last of the remaining two missing people deceased near the crash site of the Beaver float plane, Tuesday night. In total ten people were rescued and six people were found deceased. The Coast Guard, partner agencies and good Samaritans conducted exhaustive search and rescue […]
Five people are reported dead and one other missing following a mid-air collision of two aircraft carrying sight-seers near Ketchikan on Monday. Ten of 11 persons aboard a de Havilland Otter DHC-3 were transported to the Ketchikan hospital after that aircraft and a single-engine de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver impacted over George Inlet after a […]
Groups argue that U.S. Bureau of Land Management must consider future impacts of mining before approving advanced hardrock exploration. Juneau, AK — Groups that sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over its approval of a hardrock mining exploration plan in Southeast Alaska’s Chilkat River watershed today appealed a decision from the federal […]