Southeast Alaska’s summer commercial Dungeness crab season will close three weeks early, after Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Dungeness harvest estimate came in the lowest in at least 25 years.

At Wednesday’s Commercial Club meeting strong opposition to taking any action toward making Sandy Beach a city park was expressed. Some of the members felt that the place was spoiled for picnics or ...

Abbey Jackson Ferree, from Petersburg now living in Fairbanks, swam solo across the English Channel on June 21, crossing from England to France - around 40 miles in 14 hours and 23 minutes. The swim ...

June 24 – An officer conducted a welfare check on Hungerford Hill Rd. Emergency Medical Service (EMS) was contacted and responded. There was a report of a dead deer in the roadway on Mitkof Hwy. The ...

Petersburg burned notably less diesel than usual during this month’s annual Southeast Alaska Power Agency maintenance shutdown, as mild weather, low industrial demand and customer conservation ...

Petersburg's Fourth of July weekend schedule has been released for an eventful three days in the town–the traditional two-day ...

The Alaska Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Alaska Division of Elections to include Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg on the primary ballot as a candidate for U.S. Senate. The ruling upholding a lower ...

JAG Ketchikan LLC, which began operating the state-owned Ketchikan Shipyard in September, has secured a nearly $100 million contract for a service-life extension project involving a federal research ...