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The Ketchikan City Council, in a regular meeting, Thursday is scheduled to consider approving changes to the Ketchikan Municipal Code addressing camping in parking lots, as part of an effort

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The Ketchikan City Council on Monday evening held its first meeting to discuss the draft City of Ketchikan 2022 General Operating and Capital budget budget, cutting expenditures in several departments,

A robust conversation was held by the Ketchikan City Council at the regular meeting Thursday about the search for a new City of Ketchikan/Ketchikan Public Utilities manager, and whether those

The 2021-22 season of the Tonto Community Concert Association opens with a performance by Holy Rocka Rollaz at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 2 at the Payson High School auditorium.

Holy Rocka Rollaz opens the 2021-22 season of the Tonto Community Concert Association with a Payson performance at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 2 at the Payson High School Auditorium.

The Ketchikan City Council in its regular meeting Thursday is set to consider accepting a bid by BAM construction to replace the Schoenbar Road raw water transmission main for a

The Ketchikan City Council in a regular meeting Thursday voted to spend up to $10,000 to install portable toilets at the Ketchikan Port to serve community members in lieu of a previous proposal to open the Berth 3 restrooms for the summer season, which would have necessitated an expenditure of about $75,000 to pay two employees to monitor them. The vote was 5-2, with council members Mark Flora and Sam Bergeron voting against the motion. Due to technical issues, the conversation during that port...

In a normal year, the big topic of conversation would have been the heavy summer rainfall or the December deluge that threatened to cause Ketchikan Lakes Dam to breach. Or it might have been the month-long visit of "Phoenix" the humpback whale who bubble fed just about every day for four weeks in November at the downtown Ketchikan docks. But in Ketchikan, in 2020, the biggest news was the same as it was all over the world, the COVID-19 Pandemic and how it changed nearly every facet of our lives...

Anthony “Tony” Flora, longtime organized labor advocate and community activist, died Friday of complications from a stem cell transplant related to his 14-month battle with non-Hodgkins T-cell lymphoma. He was 70. Flora, born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in the Long Island suburb of Massapequa, settled in South Bend because it was the hometown of his wife, Kristina Ann Lackman, who died in 2011. He is survived by their sons, Matthew and Mark Flora, of South Bend. Flora, who graduated...