Alaska's ferry link to Prince Rupert, B.C. looks likely to resume krbd.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from krbd.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
AMHS seeks input on draft schedule ketchikandailynews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ketchikandailynews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
LISTEN: Governor's chief of staff talks Alaska ferries krbd.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from krbd.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Alaska draft winter ferry schedule leaves Southeast wanting Posted by Jacob Resneck, CoastAlaska | Jul 14, 2021 The Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Matanuska steams up Lynn Canal on June 26, 2021 near Juneau’s Eagle River. (Used by permission of Skip Gray) The Alaska Marine Highway System’s proposed winter schedule released late Tuesday (7-13-2021) projects long gaps between ferries over a seven-month period. Southeast towns like Sitka, Wrangell and Petersburg would receive infrequent ships, whereas Kodiak Island and some Southcentral communities could see improved service. From October through the end of April, the state-run ferry system will have at most five ships running at any one time. And one of those vessels shuttles between Ketchikan and Metlakatla leaving at most four ships to provide regional service across coastal Alaska.
Catholic missionaries first started venturing into the Alaska territory in the late 19th century, not long after Russia sold the land to the United States for 2 cents per acre. The Catholic church built missions and churches, and in the 1950s, bought land in the Copper River Valley from the U.S. government for a mission school largely serving Native students. Even at a modest $1.25 per acre, the sale netted the U.S. government a tidy return on investment. Now, 50 years after the once-thriving school was shuttered, the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau wants to sell the 462-acre property back to its Indigenous inhabitants for more than $4,000 an acre â or put it up for sale on the open market.
Alaska village eyes return of ancestral lands STEWART HUNTINGTON, Indian Country Today May 22, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3In this April 22, 2021, photo, signs of spring thaw appear along the Tazlina River in Tazlina, Alaska. The Catholic Church wants to sell 462 acres that once housed the Copper Valley mission school to the Native Village of Tazlina, a federally recognized tribe. The tribe is scrambling to raise the nearly $1.9 million asking price so it can regain stewardship of its ancestral land. (John Tierney/Indian Country Today via AP)John Tierney/APShow MoreShow Less 2of3This April 22, 2021, photo, shows a sign in tiny Tazlina, Alaska, northwest of Anchorage. The Native Village of Tazlina, a federally recognized tribe, is trying to raise money so it can buy 460 acres of ancestral lands from the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau. The land once held a mission school. (John Tierney/Indian Country Today via AP)John Tierney/APShow MoreShow Less
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Representatives from the private entity that operates the state-owned Ketchikan Shipyard gave a presentation to the Ketchikan City Council on the organizations’ accomplishments in 2020 as well as the outlook
The Juneau Chamber of Commerce and others are awaiting some word from the Governor on that matter. Juneau Senator Jesse Kiehl said on Action Line that he s received some indication from the Administration. Kiehl said the Governor s chief of staff has said that the idea of a Cascade Point Ferry Terminal so that the Lynn Canal run, Juneau - Haines - Skagway and then back from Haines - Juneau could be done by the two newer boats, the Hubbard and Tazlina in a single crew day which means no overtime. If you could run a one day, day boat roundtrip fare you have the potential to move a lot more people, vehicles, freight among our three communities at the same or reduced cost. So that s got real potential, Kiehl said.
U.S. Congress 2019-2020: Bills Introduced (Over 5,000 in the House and over 3,000 in the Senate) Ketchikan 2020 Year in Review:COVID cancels entire cruise ship season; International pandemic affects all residents, even those that remained healthy By DAVE KIFFER - Like the rest of the world, the biggest news story in Ketchikan was the quarantine caused by the Corona Virus or COVID 19. Most of Ketchikan was shut down from mid-March through the end of April harkening back to the month- long closure of the Ketchikan economy and social world for a month during the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918. By the end of the year, the COVID 19 virus had infected more than 250 residents and local visitors. One Saxman resident, Julie Wasulli, 56, was medivaced to Bellingham in November and died on December 11.