Author: Leila Kheiry

Ketchikan Medical Center has won a three-year, $3 million grant from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services. The grant will go toward improving patient care coordination.

City of Ketchikan voters approved a bond proposition Tuesday by a wide margin, allowing the city to issue up to $5 million in bonds for harbor improvements. Voter turnout was low, however, with only 7 percent of registered voters showing up to vote.

Starting Wednesday morning, a short section of Water Street will be closed between Lund Street and Tongass Avenue to repair a broken water pipe.

Warm weather combined with a large algae bloom in Southeast Alaska has scientists advising extra caution to recreational shellfish harvesters. Scientists have identified unsafe levels of Dinophysis algae, which produces...