Sydney Dauphinais

Passengers disembark from a cruise ship in downtown Ketchikan in June 2024.

Ketchikan expected to see record number of cruise ship passengers

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More than 1.6 million cruise ship passengers are expected in the First City this summer. That’s more than the island has ever seen and up 100,000 from last year.

The Southeast Alaska Coast Guard Sector sent a response boat from Ketchikan with members from the South Tongass Volunteer Fire Department.

Public Safety

Crewmembers in fatal barge incident identified

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The U.S. Coast Guard has identified two people who died Sunday while working in a confined space on a freight barge near Ketchikan.

The western shores of Carroll Inlet in 2015. This region about 10 miles northeast of Ketchikan is part of the South Revilla project area, where the U.S. Forest Service proposes to offer more than 5,000 acres of old-growth Tongass National Forest to commercial loggers.

Environment

Forest Service moves forward with logging project near Ketchikan

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Most of the harvest will be old-growth trees, which some people worry will be devastating to the forest.