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At its meeting on Aug. 25, the Wrangell City and Borough Assembly were updated on developments of a number of civil improvement projects just getting started or currently in progress. In his monthly report, Borough Manager Jeff Jabusch explained... Full story

Though the leaves have hardly begun to turn, Wrangell’s Ministerial Association is already thinking about Christmas as it prepares for its annual gift drive. For the past 15 years, Wrangell volunteers have loaded and wrapped up shoe boxes for Operati...

Monday, August 24 Citizen Assist. Traffic Complaint. Police arrested Robert James Berry, 21, on a charge of Driving Under the Influence. Courtesy Transport. Tuesday, August 25 Citation issued to Jimmy Pritchett, 35, for Dog at Large and License Requi...

Applications for candidacy in the Oct. 6 regular borough-wide election closed on Monday. Candidates have filed for all available seats, with those on the Wrangell School Board in contest. Among those open to the polls this year are two 3-year seats...

Marian Kowalske, has received the Alaska Performance Scholarship after schooling at home through the Galena IDEA program. She will be attending University of Alaska Southeast....

In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. August 26, 1915: The editor is in receipt of a copy of the book “Alaska Days with John Muir” written by S. Hall Young, who is well known to many of the old timers here, having been in charge of the Ala...

Mine ‘dots’ become lines in B.C. To the Editor: As I look east from Southeast Alaska, I see a picturesque, pristine landscape of mountain peaks, often snow covered - Canada. I was shocked to see a B.C. development map and learn that just beyond my...

A body was discovered and reported to the Wrangell Police Department around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. Lester Daniels Ortua, 34, was found dead on the fishing vessel Pacifica, moored in Reliance Harbor. The probable cause of death was reported to be...

Fish deaths, drought in California, tropical creatures appearing in cold waters – those freakish happenings and more are being blamed on a giant splotch of warm water that for two years has been pushing against coastlines on the West Coast, Canada a...

ANCHORAGE (AP) – President Barack Obama brought the power of the presidential pulpit to Alaska on Monday, aiming to thrust climate change to the forefront of the global agenda with a historic visit that will put the state’s liquefying glaciers and si...