Ketchikan News

U.S. woman who disappeared from an Alaskan cruise off the coast of B.C. jumped from the ship and drowned...Nelson Salter says 67-year-old Edelgard Carney of Sutter Creek, Calif., was suffering from an undisclosed medical condition and had wrapped up some...

The EPA wants all large vessels to stop using so-called bunker fuel within 200 nautical miles of U.S. shorelines, saying that reducing air pollution from the dirty fuel could save the lives of 8,300 people each year, help an additional...

David Vann and his father on a trip to Deep Creek, Alaska Legend of a Suicide , David Vann's first book of fiction , won a short-story prize in the US, but isn't exactly a story collection – or, for...

A new small-ship cruise line will start weeklong voyages between Ketchikan and Juneau in 2011. InnerSea Discoveries is a new brand created by the owner of American Safari Cruises, which has operated luxury yacht cruises in Alaska since 1997, according...

With more than 40,000 miles of rugged coastline to navigate, much of it challenging even in clear, calm weather, Alaska mariners of yore relied on lighthouses to provide a beacon, guiding them to safe harbor.