Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report:

Friends and colleagues remember longtime city official Lew Williams III, who died Saturday — a suspected drug dealer arrested in Ketchikan in November now faces federal charges — and seven Ketchikan students win scholarships to attend arts camps later this year.

Ketchikan’s borough assembly won’t object to a proposed marijuana café north of town — the Coast Guard is still struggling to restore reliable relays for VHF channel 16 — and a look at how a community with no domestic violence shelter takes care of those in need.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report:

Ketchikan sees more than a foot of snow in its first big winter storm — Sitka’s assembly opposes a proposed rule that would create special protections for humpback whales in Southeast — and we look at how city planners balance the rights of homeowners and businesses in a tourism-focused economy.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report:

Residents pack city council chambers and ask the council to maintain control of the downtown cruise ship docks — Ketchikan’s borough assembly will consider an application for on-site marijuana consumption — and, in another installment of CoastAlaska’s Shelter Series, we look at seasonal housing in Haines.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report:

New information indicates a trooper’s cell phone was not used to report an arson threat, a look back on top stories in Ketchikan for 2019 and a new guide offering medication assisted treatments for opioid addictions is released.

A Ketchikan woman is behind bars after allegedly setting a garage on fire near Refuge Cove — we preview Thursday’s Ketchikan City Council meeting — and, for the first installment in CoastAlaska’s Shelter series, we explore liveaboards.

All that and more coming up.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report:

Ketchikan’s school board will open negotiations with the now-interim superintendent for the permanent job — a Harvard senior from Ketchikan has a novel plan for bipartisan climate change legislation — and Juneau libraries get new bathroom signs in both English and Tlingit.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report:

A new study says killer whales might be behind the declining size of king salmon — tens of thousands of non-native salmon escape after a fire at a B.C. fish farm — and KFSK’s Angela Denning takes a ride on a new bus for seniors and the disabled in provided by Petersburg’s local tribe.

All that and more coming up.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report:

State attorneys want a Ketchikan judge to dismiss a class-action lawsuit challenging rate hikes at the state-run Pioneer Home — neighborhood groups get together in Juneau to talk tourism — and what a Supreme Court case from Hawaii means for the Palmer mine project near Haines.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report:

Ketchikan’s heavy-load airport ferry will be out of service through the middle of January — the governor’s proposed budget leaves some communities without ferry service for up to six months — and opposition to the Donlin Gold prospect in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is gathering momentum.

We're off Dec. 24 and 25, but we'll be back Thursday, Dec. 26.