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The Wrangell board of adjustment voted 4-0 to overturn a denied three-foot housing variance Monday. James Brenner, who intends to build a house near the intersection of Zimovia Highway and Pine Street on property owned by Bert and Tammy McCay, was...

A May 23 landslide on a Stikine River tributary in British Columbia will likely not affect salmon runs on the river there, officials with a nearby First Nations band said. The landslide sent large rocks tumbling into the Tahltan River and could have...

Representatives from the US Forest Service presented publicly for the first time potential large-scale logging alternatives for Wrangell Island. The five alternatives presented at the borough’s economic development committee meeting Thursday e... Full story

At least two prospective local business owners have submitted entries to this year’s Paths to Prosperity sustainable business competition. Last year’s competition saw Wrangell guitar maker Steve Helgesen and soon-to-be Wrangellite Kevin Skeek win... Full story

Young Wrangellites will take to the sidewalks for a borough-wide annual entrepreneurial experiment Saturday. Wrangell will celebrate Lemonade Day a week ahead of other towns, which will celebrate it on June 14, to accommodate families who might be...

A pair of motions passed during the May 21 school board meeting might seem unrelated. One vote moved Evergreen Elementary school to school-wide Title I funding from the schools previous status as a targeted Title I school. The other move extended...

Authorities charged Chloe “Coco” Massin in connection with a February vehicle-pedestrian collision that landed a Wrangell man in the hospital, according to court documents. Massin, 55, of Wrangell, faces one count of assault in the first degree, lea...

According to news reports, a Tlingit hat sold for $365,000 on the auction block at Sotheby’s of New York May 21. The hat’s sale had been opposed by local Alaskan Natives and board members of the SEALAKSA corporation on the grounds that as a sac...

How much land does a borough need? The answer may be a surprisingly large number. Wrangell is in the process of selecting 849 additional acres of land from a bevvy of local sites on Wrangell island, other nearby islands, and the mainland to complete...

A shortage of workers willing to take on part time jobs has temporarily slowed plans for a spring cemetery cleanup. Officials had planned the cleanup in response to public criticism about the condition and size of graves, as well as standing borough...

In the coming months, members of the hospital board’s building committee will start a push to update city officials and the public in detail about plans for a new hospital. The medical center’s nine-person building committee has spent the last sev...

Preliminary budget figures show a looming $64,000 reduction in funding for the Nolan Center. The draft budget, released publicly for the first time May 13, and discussed in a budget workshop before the regular borough assembly meeting, also shows a p... Full story

It may not be among the sexiest causes in the world, but it might be crucial to anyone who makes their living near the Stikine River. The Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition went before the US Forest Service’s Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) seeki...

A concerned mother and teacher asked the school board to consider amending the bullying policy Monday. Mikki Kauppila presented school board members with a photocopy of a hurtful text message she said was circulated about her daughter on private...

If past years are any indication, more than 100 students will complete the public library’s summer reading program this year. For the first time this year officials at the Irene Ingle Memorial library have opened the reading program to include h...