Ketchikan, Alaska - Most of the stories about Alaska’s involvement in World War II deal with the Japanese attack on the Aleutians and the tragic relocation of hundreds of Aleuts from their homeland to ...

Ketchikan, Alaska - Sixty years ago this Fall, long before digital cable and large screen televisions, the residents of Ketchikan were just beginning to experience the first cable television operation ...

Ketchikan, Alaska - When it gets a little wetter, or colder, or hotter than usual, Ketchikan residents immediately head to the historical records. Was that 5 inch rainfall the other day a record ...

Ketchikan, Alaska - Sixty five years ago, this week, Ketchikan experienced one of its most spectacular fires when the Canadian National steamship Prince George was destroyed after it caught fire at ...

(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - This summer's announcement that a multi-ship cruise terminal is planned for the old Ketchikan Pulp Mill site in Ward Cove is a reminder of the important economic role the ...

Ketchikan, Alaska - At the beginning of most cruise ship sailings, the passengers gather for a safety lecture. It's not really a drill because they don't get into lifeboats or rafts that are then cast ...

Ketchikan, Alaska - To some Ketchikan’s downtown tunnel seems redundant. After all, according to a “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” newspaper column in 1967, it was the only tunnel in the world that could ...

Ketchikan, Alaska - Twenty years ago this week, the hammer fell on the community of Ketchikan. On March 25, 1997, Louisiana Pacific announced the closure of the Ketchikan Pulp Mill, the primary engine ...

(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - What does an old ghost town on Prince of Wales Island have to do with the only New York Governor to be impeached? Nothing. And everything. "Sulzer" still appears on maps ...

(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - Every so often, when exploring a remote island in the Alexander Archipelago, one can come upon aset of puzzling remains. Fences and wire and sometimes dozens of rotting ...

(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - One hundred and fifty years ago, the United States' government attempt to militarize the border in Southern Southeast Alaska ended. A century and half after its brief ...

(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - On The National Register of Historic Places. Guard Island Lighthouse is located on a small island near the entrance to Tongass Narrows north of Ketchikan. The lighthouse ...