Ketchikan Daily News

The Ketchikan Daily News serves as the main daily newspaper for Ketchikan, Alaska, and has been in operation since 1934. Lew Williams, Jr. took on the role of managing editor in 1966 and was a prominent opinion columnist recognized throughout Alaska. His columns, which initially appeared in the Anchorage Times, were frequently featured in various Alaskan newspapers until his passing. Today, the paper is managed by his family, including his son, Lew Williams III, who is currently the mayor of Ketchikan.

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Atkinson family honored at keel laying ceremony

4 days ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Scott Bowlen

Family members of the late Solomon Atkinson of Metlakatla traveled to the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, this past month to participate in the keel laying ceremony for the new U.S. Navy ship that will be named USNS Solomon Atkinson. Solomon Atkinson had an extraordinary 22-year Navy career before returning to Metlakatla, where he served as mayor and was deeply involved in the community and veterans issues until his passing in 2019.
Deer proposals set for hearing

5 days ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Scott Bowlen

A public hearing on requests for three special actions to change federal subsistence regulations for deer harvests in Game Management Unit 2 is scheduled for Tuesday in Klawock, according to an announcement from the Federal Subsistence Board. The requests from the Southeast Alaska Subsistence Regional Advisory Council are either partly or fully related to the Federal Subsistence Board’s 7-3 vote on Feb.
Shipyard the focus of AIDEA public meeting

1 week ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Scott Bowlen

The state entity that owns the Ketchikan Shipyard wants to find a new shipyard operator quickly and hopes to avoid a gap between its arrival and the exit of the current operator.
Kayhi soccer to play Soldotna, baseball hosts Sitka

1 week ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson

In games next Friday and Saturday, the Kayhi boys and girls soccer teams will host Soldotna in their final contests against varsity teams before the state tournament, and the Kings’ baseball team hosts Sitka in a Southeast Conference series in its final home games before the Region V Championships. Meanwhile the Kayhi softball and track and field teams are in action in Sitka this weekend.
Coss zooms through hilly Totem to Totem

1 week ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson

It wasn’t the Hills from Hell, but it was still a hell of a lot of hills that runners had to negotiate over this year’s provisional 13.1-mile Totem to Totem course that rolled along the Tongass Highway and through neighborhoods around Point Higgins on Sunday.
Dilts pleads out to 2nd-degree murder

1 week ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Scott Bowlen

Blaise A. Dilts, 24, has pleaded guilty to a single count of second-degree murder related to the March 21, 2023, beating death of Lincoln Peratrovich, 80, at Peratrovich’s home in Klawock. Dilts’ guilty plea was accepted by Ketchikan Superior Court Judge Daniel Doty on Thursday afternoon during a change-of-plea hearing at the Ketchikan Courthouse.
Kayhi boys soccer beats Wasilla to claim Kenai Cup

2 weeks ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson

When the Division I Wasilla Warriors scored just two minutes into the Kenai Cup championship game on Saturday, it appeared as though the Kayhi boys soccer team might be in trouble. But the early goal didn’t phase the Kings, who quickly regrouped and controlled the vast majority of the contest, storming back to claim an impressive 3-1 victory in the prestigous Kenai tournament.
Weapons and drugs nabbed during North Tongass arrest

2 weeks ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Scott Bowlen

On Saturday afternoon at the City of Ketchikan landfill a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit from Anchorage detonated explosive materials from two unrelated circumstances, and which had been found within a short distance of each other by two different parties. On Thursday, the Alaska State Troopers received a report that a survey crew had found an unexploded grenade on a beach near mile 8 North Tongass Highway.
Trump fast-tracks deep sea mining permits

2 weeks ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Sibi Arasu |Tammy Webber

Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for minerals, saying it could irreparably harm marine ecosystems and ignores an ongoing process to adopt international rules for the practice. Trump's order Thursday directed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to fast track permits for companies to mine the ocean floor in both U.S. and international waters.
Ferry board approves Long-Range Plan

2 weeks ago | ketchikandailynews.com | Scott Bowlen

The Alaska Marine Highway Operations Board on Friday endorsed the Long-Range Plan that’s intended to guide Alaska Marine Highway System operations, finance, workforce development and capital investment strategy through the year 2045. Meeting in Juneau, AMHOB members also unanimously recommended that the AMHS and the Alaska Department of Transportation “make all due effort to move toward the planned and reasonable removal” of the 62-year-old ferry Matanuska from service.