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The council will decide whether to appoint a temporary replacement or leave the seat vacant until the next election in October.

The plan consolidates Kindergarten through third grade at Point Higgins and Fawn Mountain and fourth through sixth at Houghtaling.

The idea of closing Point Higgins Elementary is a reaction to the possibility that the state may not approve any additional school funding.

Harry Olsen was charged with six felony counts of sexual abuse of a minor. Troopers believe he may have had additional victims.

The Alaska Board of Fisheries voted to reopen resident and nonresident sport fisheries for yelloweye rockfish.

For years, the Ketchikan Indian Community has argued that Ketchikan’s nonrural designation prevented tribal citizens from practicing their traditional subsistence way of life.