(Juneau, AK) – On July 29, 2025, a jury found 21-year-old John Bisset guilty of two counts of Sexual Assault in the First Degree after a two-week trial. The jury acquitted Bisset on two counts of Sexual Assault in the First Degree and one count of Sexual Assault in the Second Degree. The convictions relate to […]
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 […]
Second reported sighting in eastern North Pacific waters south of the Aleutian Island chain. A new scientific paper discusses the first NOAA Fisheries record of a bowhead whale in Southeast Alaska. It is only the second documented sighting of this Arctic species in the eastern North Pacific, south of the Aleutian Islands. The whale was observed by […]
Ketchikan, AK — Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) is thrilled to announce the complete demolition of old buildings at its 2334 Tongass Avenue project site—the former Galley Restaurant and an adjacent warehouse—marking a pivotal advancement in its mission to address homelessness among vulnerable Tribal Elders and seniors in Southeast Alaska. With demolition fully wrapped up as […]