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After Wrangell’s deadly landslide, search and rescue teams worked for days looking through debris for missing people. Teams of dogs assisted.

Al Gross, an orthopedic surgeon and commercial fisherman with deep familial roots in Alaska politics, is polling in a near tie for first place against Sarah Palin in this year's special election for the state's lone U.S. House seat. Gross, who received more than 40% of the vote for U.S. Senate as

The Wrangell Borough is taking a closer look at the cost of shipping goods by barge to Wrangell.

Posted by Sage Smiley | Jan 27, 2021 Fog on the Tongass National Forest (Sage Smiley / KSTK) Wrangell’s assembly says it supports Southeast Alaska’s exemption from the Roadless Rule, which would break down barriers to development on more than 9 million acres of the Tongass National Forest. But at the moment, it isn’t willing to put up the money to defend the feds in a lawsuit.  Listen to the story here. Earlier this month, the City and Borough of Wrangell was asked by Juneau attorney J...

Posted by Sage Smiley | Dec 21, 2020 Some of Wrangell’s Assembly with Dr. Anne Zink (bottom right) at their meeting on Friday. (Via Zoom) Although Wrangell doesn’t have a mask mandate in place, Alaska’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink told the borough assembly Friday that mitigation measures like masking remain important, even as vaccine distribution kicks off across the state. She explained with a metaphor: “You never want to be like the soldier who dies after the victory was calle...