Alaska's Ketchikan Gateway Borough hires new manage

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) – A California city manager has been selected to serve as the new manager for Alaska’s Ketchikan Gateway Borough.

The Borough Assembly picked Ruban Duran for the job on Friday. He’s leaving his position as manager of the Southern California city of El Centro and will take over for the borough’s outgoing manager, Dan Bockhorst, on Dec. 19, The Ketchikan Daily News reported.

Duran was chosen to manage the borough over two other candidates – Washington state-based municipal employee Robert Grumbach and Albert Scott, who most recently managed a homeowners association near Da...