Ketchikan, AK – In a powerful statement of resistance, President Gloria Ilsxileé Stáng Burns of the Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) condemned ongoing efforts to lift protections from the Tongass National Forest, warning that the future of Indigenous communities and ecosystems alike hang in the balance. “We, the people of Kichxáan, are the Tongass,” Burns declared. […]
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(Ketchikan) – Tuesday, a Ketchikan jury convicted 40-year-old Andrew Hanson on multiple drug related charges. Hanson was found guilty on two counts of Misconduct Involving Controlled Substance in the Second Degree for possessing fentanyl pills and powder, respectively, with the intent to manufacture or deliver; one count of Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance in the Third […]
(Anchorage, AK) – On February 23rd, Superior Court Judge Daniel Doty sentenced 55-year-old Michael Williams to serve 25 years for Sexual Assault in the First Degree for the 1993 sexual assault of a fourteen-year-old girl near Ketchikan High School. In Jan. 2024, a Ketchikan jury found Williams guilty of one count of Sexual Assault in the […]