Solar power in Southeast Alaska is not a punch line about the region’s rainy weather. It could be an important part of a diversified power system to keep Wrangell homes and businesses lit up and …
It’s not easy or always profitable working in commercial fishing or running a seafood processor — going after salmon and a lot more in the coean, packing it on ice or freezing it for customers, …
Nothing affects everyone in town more than electricity. Well, maybe the weather, but there’s not much anyone can do about that, other than invest in rain gear. An equally good investment is …
The Tongass is the largest national forest in the country, and that’s no small thing to trifle with. But trifle the Trump administration is doing, treating the Tongass, the U.S. Forest Service …
SEARHC is the largest health care provider in Southeast Alaska, with facilities in 15 communities and traveling services for 13 more towns across the region. Its largest operations are in Juneau, and …
Little kids can’t help but play with their food. Gamblers can’t stop playing with a pair of dice or deck of cards. Cats can’t help but play with a ball of yarn. It’s the same with legislators …
Nothing lasts forever, particularly steel hulls floating in salt water their entire life. The Alaska state ferry Matanuska, built in a Seattle shipyard in 1963, has been tied up in Ketchikan since …
Hostile intruders, often armed and looking to hurt people, have become an unacceptably and sadly frequent occurrence in America. And although there has not been a school shooting in Alaska in nearly …
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security stopped more than a month ago when congressional Democrats and Republicans and the president put partisanship, reelection campaigns and social media …
The borough’s role is to decide how much it can afford to contribute to the school district operating budget, and the school board and administration’s role is to decide how best to spend that …
The enticing proposal of a privately run, large-vessel shipyard at the former 6-Mile Mill property certainly would relaunch the town’s economy, reversing a quarter-century of decline from the loss …
If the governor really wanted to improve state ferry service for the 33 coastal communities that depend on the ships, he would get out of his office and go on a national recruiting tour to help find …
Spending more than $125 million to build a new state ferry terminal 42 road miles north of downtown Juneau, 39 miles from the hospital and 34 miles from the airport and shopping makes about as much …
The Alaska Marine Highway System has never fully paid its own way with ticket revenues; it’s always needed state money to cover the gap between what it costs to operate the fleet and what it can …
The Nolan Center is as indispensable to Wrangell as the post office, fresh seafood, ice cleats in the winter and raingear the rest of the year. The center, which opened in 2004, provides a home …
The schools superintendent and school board were not assigned extra homework for misbehaving in class or for unexcused absences. They took on the extra work to help determine if the schools are …
Wrangell is a small town of large and helpful hearts. It also can be a town of quick and not so helpful opinions. Though spoken from the heart, sometimes those opinions spill out a little too …
There’s no warm, dry and cozy way to say it: This winter has been cold and wet and miserable across Alaska. People will talk about the winter for years to come, but not in fondness. More of a …
Alaskans this fall will vote for the third time whether they prefer open primary elections to choose their favorite candidates for Congress, governor and the state Legislature. For the third time, …
If Santa had attached a snowplow to the front of his sleigh, mounted a grader blade to the side and hung a sand spreader off the back, he couldn’t have kept up with the snow and ice that covered …