The borough assembly unanimously passed an ordinance March 24 that eliminates the need for residents to pay the state’s vehicle registration fee on older vehicles. “This is actually something …

Brian Herman, owner of Canoe Lagoon Oysters, didn’t attend last month’s Mariculture Conference of Alaska in Anchorage. He was busy at work. Last year, he shipped out about 110,000 oysters …

Tickets to ride the Alaska Marine Highway System will go up a little more than 2% effective May 1, the first fare increase since 2019. That 2019 increase instituted “dynamic pricing” of higher …

Following a mid-March luncheon, a group of Wrangell residents launched a formal petition to challenge new shrimping regulations that closed the Southeast fishery from March 1 to April 30, and …

The borough assembly is moving to repeal a 60-year-old ordinance governing traveling merchants and door-to-door solicitors. Members voted unanimously on March 24 to approve the repeal ordinance, …

More than 400 music students from across Southeast will gather in Ketchikan April 9-11 for the 52nd annual Spring Music Festival, with jam-packed days of performances, judging and workshops led by …

The borough assembly is moving forward with a strategic plan to strengthen the region’s maritime industry after unanimously approving on March 24 a new partnership with Ketchikan. Borough …

The total assessed value of privately owned land, residences and commercial property in Wrangell is up about 1% this year, coming in at $260.6 million. Last year’s total on the more than 2,000 …

The state is seeking takers for Alaska’s oldest ferry. The Matanuska began serving Southeast communities in 1963. In 2022, a planned maintenance overhaul revealed extensive rusted steel and …

The future of fish is looking a lot like … salami? And meatballs. And fried chicken. And breakfast sausage. And, of course, spareribs and burgers. This is America, after all. Welcome to the era …

Emergency responders and officials gathered March 16 at the Public Safety Building for the borough’s first tabletop exercise to establish a unified plan for responding to an armed hostile intruder …

After a year on the market, the Sourdough Lodge has officially changed hands. The sale was finalized on March 6, with ownership of the 15,000-square-foot cedar building transferring to Oregon-based …

The school board’s latest draft budget relies on pulling $710,884 from the district’s operating reserves to balance spending for the 2026-2027 school year. That would leave the district with …

The Wrangell Volunteer Fire Department and the chamber of commerce brought welcome news to much of the community on March 18, announcing that the annual fireworks display will return to its …

The deadline is the same every year, March 31, and every year some Alaskans fail to file on time for their annual Permanent Fund dividend. “My worst day is April 1,” said Sarah …

Following on a proposal from three weeks ago to increase and maintain the borough’s annual contribution to the school district — in exchange for a new school district fiscal policies — City …

All nine teachers at Evergreen Elementary School have called on the school board to address critical staffing shortages and operational gaps they say are hindering their ability to educate students …

The community’s annual Easter egg hunt, put on by the Elks Lodge for at least the past 30 years, is for the kids, but it needs some adult help to pull it off. “We’re still looking for …

Two crew members of a tugboat were killed and two others were injured in what the U.S. Coast Guard described March 18 as a “confined space incident” aboard a barge moored in Southeast …

Smaller might be better. That’s the message City Hall took from the auction earlier this month when no one bid to set up their summer business on either of two large spaces offered in front of the …