An eye care clinic in Ketchikan is now offering laser procedures, the first of its kind for southern Southeast Alaska. Plus, a new public use cabin opens in Juneau, and a clown entertains visitors to downtown Sitka.

Tribal organizations across Southeast speak out against a social media trend of people dancing around Alaska Native totem poles. Plus, a critical deep ocean observation network off the coast of Alaska has been saved from getting dismantled, and a U.S. Department of Defense agency is exhuming the remains of an unidentified WWII soldier buried in the Sitka National Cemetery.

The Race to Alaska’s winning team crosses the finish line in Ketchikan. Plus, a bear monitoring program in Haines is being revived, and Petersburg hosts its first-ever classical music festival.

Ketchikan hires a new city manager

Coast Guard helicopter crashes in Sitka

The Ketchikan Visitors Bureau looks for feedback on how tourism affects residents

A local jeweler will have to pay a settlement to the state for misrepresenting their products

A look at what could be next for Ketchikan’s now-closed Point Higgins and Fawn Mountain elementary schools. Plus, the state will assess oil pollution near a popular Juneau park, and Haines residents have mixed feelings about the state’s decision to reopen a king salmon sport fishery. 

A Juneau artist creates a magazine for Indigenous writers and creatives. Plus, high school students in Petersburg get a taste of the real world through a simulated “financial reality fair,” and an underwater academy in Sitka teaches the ins and outs of mermaiding.

A man died while hiking to Blue Lake on the Deer Mountain trail this weekend.

Talks of a new cruise ship dock in Juneau.

Independent US House candidate Bill Hill visits Ketchikan 

Mermaids classes now offered in Sitka

A former Metlakatla man files a federal civil rights lawsuit that alleges he was wrongfully prosecuted for murder.

Republican lawmakers work to repeal a key environmental policy that protects over 9 million acres of the Tongass.