Stay updated with breaking news from Local Paper. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Ketchikan, Alaska news. Southeast Alaska news, Alaska news, national and world news.
za 26 jun 2021, 8:00 • keer gelezen UDEN | Weet jij alles van wielrennen en de Tour de France? Denk jij te weten wie dit jaar het prestigieuze wielerevenement weet te winnen? Schrijf je dan snel in voor het gratis Kliknieuws Tourspel 2021! Dit kan nog tot 12.00 uur vandaag. Aan jou de taak om een topteam te selecteren. Deelname is heel eenvoudig. Je registreert je eenmalig via poules.com/nl/poules/kliknieuws/tour-de-france-2021 en selecteert een eigen wielerteam. Hierbij kun je kiezen uit alle deelnemende ploegen en renners aan de Tour. Het is b...
Ketchikan: Ketchikan Community Risk Level Raised to HIGH; Ketchikan High School Closed Through Friday, May 7th - The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center and Ketchikan School District have seen an increase in COVID-19 cases in the past couple of weeks, including an increase in community spread cases. There are 12 new cases reported in Ketchikan today, and 9 cases reported on Monday. Seven of those cases were determined to be close contacts to a known positive case, three were attributed to community spread, three were determined to be related to recent travel, and eight of the cases rema...
At a Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce meeting in the early 1970s, Len Laurance said that eventually Ketchikan would host more than one million cruise ship passengers each season. The proclamation, made at a time when less than 70,000 cruise passengers visited the First City, was met with guffaws by the audience. But Laurance, who died at 88 on April 8, was right. In both 2018 and 2019, Ketchikan had more than one million cruise visitors and would likely have had more than 1.3 million in 2020 if not for the COVID 19 pandemic that shut down the entire Alaskan cruising industry. In an interview in ...
Edited By MARY KAUFFMAN - Today, Senator Bill Wielechowski (D-Anchorage) introduced Senate Joint Resolution 12, joining others in urging the United States Congress to remove the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset clauses from the United States Social Security Act. Both provisions affect the calculation of the Social Security benefits for individuals who also receive a state pension or one from a political subdivision. The Windfall Elimination Provision applies to direct public employees while the Government Pension Offset reduces benefits of spouses and survivors w...