JUNEAU, Alaska – A Ketchikan man was sentenceTuesday to five years in prison and will serve three years of court mandated supervision upon release from prison for possessing a firearm as a felon during a domestic violence assault. According to court documents, on Oct. 27, 2024, the Ketchikan Police Department (KPD) received a 911 phone […]
On August 7th, 1938, a Pan American Airways, twin-engine “baby clipper” departed the Sand Point Naval Air Station, five miles northeast of Seattle, and headed north for Ketchikan and Juneau in an air service experiment to Alaska. The aircraft flew an outside route over water in what was to be a seven-hour flight to Ketchikan but was delayed […]
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 […]