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Student government convention in Sitka petitions for $1,000 BSA hike, inflation adjustments

2 weeks ago | juneauempire.com | Anna Laffrey

High schoolers from across Alaska reported to Sitka High School at 7:15 a.m. today for the second of a three-day conference of the Alaska Association of Student Governments.
ALASKA: Southeast king salmon harvest limit cut by 60,000 this year

1 month ago | savingseafood.org | Anna Laffrey

April 10, 2025 — The 2025 Southeast Alaska harvest limit for king salmon will be almost 40% less than last year, a drop of 60,000 fish. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game on April 1 announced an overall allocation of 130,800 treaty king salmon — fish that don’t originate in Alaska hatcheries — for all gear groups targeting kings in waters off Southeast Alaska and Yakutat.
Chinook harvest limits to be almost 40% lower than ‘24

1 month ago | juneauempire.com | Anna Laffrey

Southeast Alaska fishermen discovered last week that harvest limits for chinook salmon in 2025 will be almost 40% less than last year’s. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced an overall allocation of 130,800 treaty chinook salmon — fish that didn’t originate in Alaska hatcheries — for all gear groups targeting chinook in waters off Southeast Alaska and Yakutat in 2025.
Former The Galley Restaurant be leveled for new service for unhoused

2 months ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Anna Laffrey

Twelve cots line the bright, clean, colorful interior of the building at 2334 Tongass Ave. that formerly housed The Galley Restaurant, and now serves as Ketchikan Indian Community’s overnight shelter for unhoused tribal citizens. Since January, the building has offered a safe, warm place for dozens of KIC tribal citizens to sleep, eat warm meals and connect with health care providers.
Ooligan harvest closed with exception

2 months ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Anna Laffrey

Federally qualified subsistence users can take one five-gallon bucket of whole ooligan per household this spring from federal public waters of the Unuk River drainage using dip nets or cast nets, the U.S. Forest Service announced Monday. State-managed subsistence, personal use and commercial fisheries on ooligan will be closed in all state waters of District 1.
Kasaan to host culture camp

2 months ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Anna Laffrey

Students and families across Prince of Wales Island will be traveling to Kasaan next week for the Dagwíi Gáwtlaas youth culture camp that’s scheduled to run from Monday through Friday. Meanwhile, community members are anticipating a house post raising on Saturday, March 8 inside the Organized Village of Kasaan’s Totem Trail Café. Kasaan on Saturday will welcome visitors from around the island and the region to raise Yaahl Gáats’aay, a house post that is representative of Raven clans.
Saxman lifts boil water notice

2 months ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Anna Laffrey

Saxman city leaders announced on Thursday that a city-wide "boil water notice" was lifted almost one month after it went into effect on Jan. 14. During the water notice period that ended on Thursday, all Saxman residents were advised to boil tap water for two minutes before drinking or consuming it.
Sunday event set to honor Elizabeth Peratrovich at Kayhi Commons

2 months ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Anna Laffrey

A Sunday afternoon gathering in the Ketchikan High School Commons is set to honor Ḵaax̱gal.aat Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich for defending the civil rights of Alaska Native people and other marginalized groups in the years before Alaska became a state. Peratrovich graduated from Ketchikan High School in 1931. Today, Peratrovich is known across the U.S. for championing the Alaska Anti-Discrimination Act that territorial Gov. Ernest Gruening ratified on Feb. 16, 1945.
Fishery Board Cuts Herring Catch Rate

Feb 10, 2025 | sitkasentinel.com | Anna Laffrey

20 YEARS AGO February 2005 Assembly members agree the solid waste fund is growing since household pickup rates were adjusted last year but disagreed on whether rates should be reduced. Mayor Marko Dapcevich’s goal is lowering residential rates now that the solid waste fund has a $200,000 surplus. But Doris Bailey and Bill Paden and some members of the public who testified said the fund faces a number of major expenses.
Board of Fisheries Day 11 includes Ketchikan Creek

Feb 8, 2025 | ketchikandailynews.com | Anna Laffrey

During the 11th day of the Alaska Board of Fisheries’ 13-day Southeast Alaska finfish and shellfish regulatory meeting in Ketchikan on Friday, the seven-member Board held a town-hall-style committee session and began deliberations over 35 regulatory proposals regarding subsistence, personal use, sport and commercial harvest of salmon and trout species, as well as proposals addressing salmon enhancement, and common property fisheries in terminal harvest areas where salmon return to hatcheries...