Jack Darrell

Heavy rains and flooding in Southeast Alaska triggered a series of small landslides in Ketchikan on Wednesday that blocked roads and damaged a home.

Many communities along Alaska’s southern coast are dependent on state ferries to get around and to fuel their economies. But those ferries move thanks to teams of on-board engineers, who say they are critically understaffed.

Gross-Alaska is parting ways with its historic Coliseum Theater in Ketchikan after more than a century.

In a small town — especially one you can’t drive away from — it can feel like there’s no escaping the conflict.

A Ketchikan woman now holds the Guinness World Record for “largest female mouth gape.”

Ketchikan High School's Rick Dormer testified before a joint hearing of the Alaska House and Senate education committees amid local school district shakeups.

Officials are urging residents to make plans for an extended closure after Thursday morning's slide near Wolfe Point.

The deaths of French bulldogs Whiskey and Yoda remain under investigation, after troopers found their submerged remains Friday near Thorne Bay.

Marie Pearl Zellmer Robinson of Ketchikan can easily fit a 12-oz. aluminum can between her teeth.

The U.S. Coast Guard said only one person was believed to be aboard the Canis Majoris when it was last heard from Feb. 20. Its owner, David Klein, is listed as missing.