Petersburg News

Alaska's halibut fishery ended Nov. 15 with little fanfare. Brutal winter weather wreaked havoc on deliveries in the final week and bumped up prices as buyers scrambled for the last fresh fish of the year.

Oregon Zoo officials say Pete, an 18-year-old black bear who loved to lounge in a tractor tire, has been euthanized because of his age and debilitating arthritis.

This image provided by Newsweek shows the news magazine's Nov. 23, 2009 cover, featuring a photo of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1pm, Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun.

Junior firefighters Asa Aulbach and Lauren Yeager out on a drill. PETERSBURG-AK Fire protection in Alaska's remote communities depends on a relatively small group of local residents, who devote a lot of their free time to staying prepared for the worst.

AK Some of Petersburg's Elementary and Middle School students will be surveyed this fall about substance abuse.

Its hard to imagine that its been almost 25 years since my parents secretly smuggled many of our family members out of Iran due to brutal religious persecution.

AK More than one hundred of the best high school musicians from around Southeast Alaska gathered in Petersburg this week to practice and perform as a band and choir.

People in Florida thought Dan Burke was crazy when he left his job on a 175-foot Coast Guard buoy tender out of St.

Some of the young adults in Petersburg Alaska residents dress as Vikings and Valkyries as part of... Some of the young adults in Petersburg Alaska residents dress as Vikings and Valkyries as part of their annual 17th of May Little Norway Festival and wait to be pulled into the parade.

Link: KFSK A man hunting near Kake in Southeast Alaska recently bagged a moose that was legal based on its antlers, but he soon discovered the animal was female.

Juneau resident: Since 2003, but born in Petersburg. Family: Brother, Skip Hallingstad; parents, Casper and Luella Hallingstad, of Petersburg.

JUNEAU, Alaska The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Elderberry, a 65-foot inland buoy tender homeported in Petersburg, Alaska, is scheduled to begin removing 18 navigational buoys Friday in the Gastineau Channel which runs through the Mendenhall Bar.

AK Planners are taking a closer look at the problems of combining a road with the power line project from Petersburg to Kake.

PETERSBURG, AK Commercial dive fisherman and crabbers in Southeast Alaska are worried about losing crab, urchins, sea cucumbers and clams to what may be an expanding population of sea otters in the region.

The installation of "Habitat," a 20-foot tall cubist construction resembling a squatting man created by British artist Antony Gormley, has been postponed.

Local Officials pose at Monday's groundbreaking for the new Fire and EMS hall. PETERSBURG-AK Earthwork is now underway on the location for a new fire and emergency medical services facility in Petersburg.

PETERSBURG, AK The city of Angoon has won a preliminary permit for studying a proposed power plant at Scenery Creek, in Thomas Bay north of Petersburg.

Grammy-award nominated guitarist Alex de Grassi is one of the premiere steel string soloists in the world, and seeing him in concert might not be your average musical experience.

The red and blue king crab commercial fishery will not open in Southeast Alaska this year, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced last week.