It looks like the sac roe herring fishery in Seymour Canal was just not to be this year. Fishery managers say all the gillnetters left the grounds off Admiralty Island… more

Petersburg leaders were happy to see the Redistricting Board’s latest changes to the legislative lines in Southeast Alaska. It’s the only Southeast municipality that had challenged the Board’s previous redistricting… more

A teenager who spent two cold, wet nights lost in the dense, Southeast Alaska rainforest is home and safe in Port Protection thanks to dozens of volunteer and professional searchers.… more

Several Petersburg High School students got a hands-on opportunity to learn about a variety of medical professions earlier this month in a three-day job shadow at the local hospital. It… more

The Alaska Redistricting Board will start redrawing Southeast Alaska’s legislative districts on Monday. In a ruling issued late Thursday afternoon, the Alaska Supreme Court ordered that the board’s amended redistricting… more

The U-S Coast Guard says Monday’s ferry accident in Petersburg was not caused by a mechanical problem. What did cause the Matanuska to run bow-first into the Ocean Beauty Seafoods… more

Ocean Beauty Seafoods still plans to run its Petersburg plant this summer despite this week’s ferry accident. According to Vice president of Marketing Tom Sunderland, the company hopes to make… more

Searchers found a missing teenage girl on Prince of Wales Island Tuesday. 13-year-old Makayla McRoberts was apparently uninjured. Alaska State Troopers spokesperson Megan Peters got word shortly after noon. … more