Scientists and local volunteers have detected a new invasive species in the waters of Southeast Alaska. Alaska Sea Grant’s Gary Freitag, Marine Advisory agent in Ketchikan, is a member of the scientific team that discovered Bugula neritina, an invertebrate filter feeder also referred to as a branching bryozoan. These tiny organisms form colonies and are […]
Ketchikan-based Alaska State Troopers pulled over a bicyclist near mile six of the North Tongass Highway just before midnight on Saturday night and arrested him on multiple charges it was reported in the trooper dispatch. At 11:47 pm, troopers on patrol observed 36-year-old Paul Jackson abandoning a vehicle and attempting to leave the scene on […]
Skagway man, 67-year-old James Terrance Williams, owner of Inside Passage Arts is the target of a 10-count federal indictment it was revealed on Friday morning. According to U.S. Attorney Byran Schoder, Williams was indicted by a federal grand jury for Lacey Act violations of smuggling walrus ivory into the U.S., sales of smuggled walrus ivory, and […]
The Klawock husband and wife who the U.S. Justice Department said prioritized traveling and gambling instead of paying their income for over 20 years were sentenced in federal court on Friday. “Archie W. Demmert III, 58, and Roseann L. Demmert, 61, both of Klawock, Alaska, were sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess […]