The boat shop on Wrangell’s downtown inner harbor had passed through three generations of shipwrights and owners who all shared one thing in common: Wood. The business started as Hansen Boat …

Apartment rents in the Wrangell-Petersburg area are higher than last year and the 3.4% vacancy rate is lower, according to an annual state survey. The vacancy rate on rental units is the lowest in …

The borough has told a Wasilla developer who wants to buy municipally owned land and build multiple housing units behind the former Wrangell hospital building that she needs to file a new application …

The port commission has started work on a proposed ordinance intended to solve the problem of inactive vessels taking up moorage space while a growing waitlist strains harbor …

Wrangell will get an early listen to new music from Diyet & The Love Soldiers when the Indigenous Canadian trio plays the Nolan Center at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18 — one day before the official …

Wrangell officials are considering hiring an outside firm to audit delinquent sales tax returns, but first they plan to review the municipal code to ensure the borough can enforce …

Solvay Gillen needs help — and that’s an objectively true statement. Among the needs is someone to drive the center’s new van. The van arrived last month, purchased with grant funds by …

The merger of two insurance pools into a single self-insurer for Alaska municipalities and school districts generated a payout this year of $63,940 to the Wrangell borough, which the assembly has …

It took a lot of planning, a team of workers from the U.S. Forest Service and the Sitka Conservation Society, almost $180,000 in federal money — and waiting for high water — but it all came …

Wrangell police are investigating reports that an adult posed as a young girl on Snapchat to add adolescent girls to his friends list and tried to arrange in-person meetings, according to Police …

Every year, copious amounts of plastic foam boxes are used to ship Alaska seafood. Instead of using plastics that contribute huge amounts of carbon emissions in their manufacture and huge amounts to …

Alaskans are much more overweight than they used to be, with adult obesity rates nearly tripled since 1991, according to a new state report. The 2025 Alaska Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity …

Along with more than 200 public radio and TV stations nationwide and across Alaska, KSTK was hit by a sweeping federal action canceling $136 million in funding for improvements to emergency warning …

Val Massie, the Women In Safe Homes (WISH) rural board representative for Wrangell, is convening a local focus group to identify gaps in domestic violence and sexual abuse prevention and response and …

For decades, the Totem Bar was where people gathered after long days, where the chatter drifted through the doors like the aroma of old coffee and new beginnings. On June 28, the doors closed for the …

The contractor installing utilities and roads at the Alder Top Village (Keishangita.’aan) subdivision shut down work last month after finding a midden — a buried mound of discarded shells, likely …

A dozen candidates have filed for eight openings on the borough assembly, school board and port commission, with contested races in the two of the elections. Incumbent Assembly Members Brittani …

The school district’s new fee structure charges a higher flat rate for the entire school year per activity than last year’s rates which charged a lower annual fee but tacked on a separate cost …

Tidal Network, which is looking to expand the reach of its wireless internet service in town, is considering its next steps after the planning and zoning commission unanimously rejected the tribal …

It was a busy August for Head Start staff, parents and volunteers but it all went according to schedule and classes started Tuesday morning, Aug. 26, in new rented space at Evergreen Elementary …