Ketchikan: 'Reflection' - On Memorial Day, May 30, at 3 p.m., local time, the nation and hundreds of other nationwide and local participants will ask Americans to pause for the National Moment of Remembrance. - More...
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Ketchikan: Stedman Calls Legislative Session a Success - Calling the 2004-2005 Legislative Session "a success for the people of Southeast Alaska and the entire state", Senator Bert Stedman (R-Sitka) headed home Thursday after the conclusion of the special legislative session in Juneau. Stedman represents Senate District A, which includes the Southeast communities of Ketchikan, Sitka, Wrangell and Petersburg. - More...
Friday - May 27, 2005

Bryce Timm, Marika Garner and Kenny Pearson. Photos by Dick Kauffman

Ketchikan: Chamber Presents 2005 Youth Recognition Awards By DICK KAUFFMAN - The Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce presented its annual youth recognition awards to three Ketchikan youth Wednesday. Speaking on behalf of the Chamber, Carol Schafer Co-chair of the Chamber's Workforce Development and Education Committee presented the awards to Bryce Timm, Marika Garner and Kenny Pearson.

Shafer said, "Our first recipient was distinguished by two members of the community. Both Daniel Greer and Gretchen Klein nominated Mr. Bryce Timm." Shafer said Greer and Klein both described Timm as "that rare teenager who finds kind words to describe their peers and is always polite and respectful of his elders." - More...
Friday - May 27, 2005

Ketchikan: ATIA Awards 5 Tourism Scholarships in Southeast - Among the Alaska Travel Industry Association (ATIA) scholarship awards recently announced, four went to Southeast Alaska students.

Ryan Seaver of Ketchikan will also receive a $2,500 scholarship from the Kris Geldaker Memorial. Seaver is studying at California Maritime Academy to obtain a Bachelor's degree in Marine Transportation. He notes that the sea plays a major part in a visitors Alaska experience and presents one of the challenges of the visitor industry in Alaska. - More...
Friday - May 27, 2005

Alaska: Memorial Day Weekend Kicks Off Alaska's Summer Season - Memorial Day Weekend is the traditional kickoff for Alaska's summer season. The Alaska State Troopers, along with law enforcement officers across the State, will be on the roads, in the air, and on the beaches concentrating on enforcement of safety belt and child restraint, DUI, impeding, and personal flotation device laws. It is also the second enforcement period for Operation C.A.R.E., the Combined Accident Reduction Effort. The Alaska State Troopers ask you to remember to drive with CARE and help reduce accidents. - More...
Friday - May 27, 2005

Alaska: Pink salmon sales multiply in Korean market - Alaska's fishing industry is making substantial progress in entering the Korean market, according to the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development Although details of the business transactions are confidential, at least three Alaskan processor-marketers have made new pink salmon sales to four buyers in Korea for 2005. Their product lines include skinless, boneless fillets and cans. Additionally, sales for a test-market of salmon burgers are being sold to a Korean fast-food chain. - More...
Friday - May 27, 2005

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Alaska - Canada: Tribe threatens development of oil-sands mines By ROBERT COLLIER - This town on a bend in the Mackenzie River has a general store and little else besides endless forests and distant blue mountains. Not an oil derrick is to be seen. But its angry Native tribe is standing in the way of what could be the biggest energy boom in North America's history.

The tribe, the Deh Cho First Nation, is blocking an 800-mile pipeline that would pass through its lands carrying natural gas from the Arctic Ocean to the booming oil-sands mines of Alberta. The tribe says the money and development brought by the pipeline could destroy its culture while leaving little lasting economic benefit. - More...
Friday - May 27, 2005

National: Abbas pays first official visit to White House By BILL STRAUB - President Bush lauded Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas as "a man of courage" after an Oval Office meeting Thursday, expressing U.S. support for his efforts to bring peace to a habitual trouble spot. - More...
Friday - May 27, 2005

National: Sparring over funding of sexual-dysfunction drugs By LEE BOWMAN - Lawmakers' efforts to drop coverage of "lifestyle drugs" for sexual or erectile dysfunction under the new Medicare prescription-drug plan, as well as Medicaid, are seen by many caregivers and advocates as political meddling in health decisions. - More...
Friday - May 27, 2005

National: Senate panel orders study of offshore drilling By JOAN LOWY - A Senate committee took a step Thursday toward lifting the federal moratorium on offshore energy drilling by directing the Interior Department to study how much natural gas is contained in the outer continental shelf. - More...
Friday - May 27, 2005

Washington Calling: TV or not TV ... gas-price search ... 'Store Wars'! By MARY DEIBEL - Start saving those pennies for digital TV when your old sets go dark.

House Republicans plan to pull the plug on analog broadcasts Jan. 1, 2009, but don't foresee rebates to ease the cost of the changeover for the 85 percent of Americans who haven't yet switched. - More...
Friday - May 27, 2005

National: It's your boss's e-mail By DAVID MORRISON - Every day, millions of employees send and receive e-mails on the job, but how often do they think about who owns the e-mails? - More...
Friday - May 27, 2005

Dale McFeatters: Another detour on the highway bill - Congress generally assigns low numbers to bills with high or symbolic importance. So you would think HR 3, the huge, six-year highway and mass-transit bill, would move expeditiously to passage. But you would be wrong.

The old highway act expired at the end of September 2003, but lawmakers, unable to agree on a new bill, have repeatedly extended the old law with its much lower funding levels. - More...
Friday - May 27, 2005