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Ketchikan’s unofficial election results are in
Ketchikan held its city and borough elections Tuesday.
Hunter rescued from remote area near Ketchikan
The hunter was found near Saddle Lakes, about 25 miles via gravel road from Ketchikan. He was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Motion seeks to halt timber sale near Ketchikan
The motion filed in federal court is asking to stop the Shelter Cove Timber Sale. It follows a lawsuit filed in August challenging the larger South Revilla Integrated Resource Project.
Education funding, capital investments dominate Ketchikan legislative forum
Five Southeast Alaska lawmakers answered questions from constituents during a forum at Southeast Conference this week.
Station Highlights
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KRBD’s 2026 Election Center
We want to help you get informed for Ketchikan's upcoming municipal election.
KRBD Lauches Community Survey to Collect Strategic Feedback
We’re asking the questions that will shape our next few years. We’d love your answers....
KRBD 50 Year History Moments with Dave Kiffer
Have you been keeping up with the story? If you’ve missed a moment or two, don’t...
Get the KRBD App available for Apple and Android
KRBD has an App! Search “KRBD” in your App Store or Google Play Store and download the...
Morning Edition Interviews
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Olympia, Washington based comic Sam Miller tours Southeast
Comedian Sam Miller, known for dealing frankly on issues of addiction and incarceration, is...
The dangers of screen use and what it does to your brain
Residential Youth & Community (RYC) provides behavioral health services for youth and young...
An interview with Biriba Union
Biriba Union is performing in Ketchikan. Stephanie Patton spoke with Mike Block, a member of the...
Community Reports
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Arts Council Report
The Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities Council Main Street Gallery. (KRBD staff) The current...
UAS Ketchikan Report
Hear about Spring Registration, financial aid, maritime classes and more. Sophia Mullins gives...
Ketchikan Public Library Report
There is a special Senior Safety program Thursday, a presentation on Brain Health, crafts and...
Southeast News
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Wrangell will receive $43 million boost from federal gov
Wrangell’s efforts to add to its downtown waterfront, develop the former 6-Mile Mill property for...
At revived press in heart of Southeast Alaska, artists imprint their love for the Tongass
Artist Meghan Chambers arranges antique wood type into the century-old Vandercook printing press. (KCAW/McKenney) Deep in Lisianski Inlet, gnome-like buildings sit where the long tidal grass meets the trees. Inside one, you can...
WCA in final steps to create climate adaptation plan
Wrangell’s tribal government, the Wrangell Cooperative Association, is taking the final steps to...
Alaska News
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Almost 40% of Alaska households don’t earn enough to make ends meet, according to new report
That’s dramatically more than the number of households below the federal poverty line.
No vote on MMHOP: The controversial housing proposal is postponed
Sponsor Erin Baldwin Day called for a work session Wednesday to sort through more than a dozen proposed amendments.
3 Alaska governor candidates say they’ll make Juneau mansion home
Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and Republicans Bernadette Wilson and Dave Bronson all pledged to live in the Juneau mansion during a candidate forum in the capital city. Republican Treg Taylor did not attend the event.
NPR
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Suicide is up among Black Americans. We need to talk about it.
NPR’s Michel Martin hosted a panel conversation about mental health and suicide in the Black community, exploring a difficult subject in deeply personal conversations.
New U.S. indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture
U.S. authorities charged the former Venezuelan president with conspiring to torture his fellow...
4 people on NASA’s Crew-12 mission return to Earth after 8 months in space
Four people — two NASA astronauts, one from the European Space Agency and a Russian cosmonaut —...
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