Wrangell News

On June 9, the City and Borough of Wrangell recognized Mark Walker, executive director of Alaska Island Community Services , for his efforts to improve health and health care services in Wrangell and the surrounding area.

The Coast Guard was searching Monday for a Coffman Cove man who was missing after his powered canoe turned up with no sign of him.

Yet another cruise line has announced plans to cut back in Alaska for 2010 -- and in a big way.

A proposed electrical intertie between Southeast Alaska and the western power grid has been inexplicably left off of a new report by the Western Governor's Association aimed at promoting the region's renewable energy resources.

A second straight year of weak king salmon returns around the rim of the Gulf of Alaska has state fisheries biologists wondering if they might be staring into the face of a bleak future.

Explore the first day of the Copper River commercial salmon fishery in our photo essay.

The Coast Guard Captain of the Port for Southeast Alaska has placed a captain of the port order on the 42-foot commercial fishing vessel, Moonshadow and the owner has placed an oil containment boom around the vessel after it reportedly grounded 30 miles west of Wrangell at 10 a.m. Monday.

A boat full of tourism operators drifts past a large chunk of glacial ice in LeConte Bay in early June.

The Coast Guard says a fishing boat with one person aboard has grounded near Wrangell.

Most Alaskans think cruise tourism to the state is something relatively new. Indeed, the big and shiny ships bringing thousands of visitors to Alaska each summer are a relatively new sight in Alaska's coastal waters, but tourists have actually been coming north on ships to sightsee for more than a century.

Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska , the State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services, Behavioral Health/Prevention and Early Intervention Services provided a Suicide Prevention Symposium June 1-2, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall in Juneau.

The Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office administers land sales on behalf of the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority.

The Wrangell Chamber of Commerce will host the 2nd Annual Smoked Fish Contest on Saturday, June 13 in the Nolan Room in the Elks.

Most parents want to protect their children from tobacco and alcohol, but it may surprise them to know where most youth who use tobacco and/or alcohol get their supplies.

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On May 17, 2009, a son, Brody Tyler Hommel, weighing 6 pounds, 11 ounces, to Amber and Kyle Hommel, of Wrangell.

Gov. Sarah Palin has signed two bills, one extending the boating safety program and the other temporarily suspending the experience cap for teachers.

Alaska's Congressional delegation has voted to tighten regulations on credit cards - and to allow loaded guns in national parks.

Governor Sarah Palin speaks about House Bill 151 as Wrangell Mayor Don McConachie looks on.

In 1971, Congress settled the aboriginal claims of all Alaska Natives: It gave them 44 million acres, $1 billion and mandated the creation of 13 regional and more than 200 Alaska Native corporations.

In an effort to promote boating safety and ensure that vessels are in compliance with Coast Guard regulations throughout Southeast Alaska, Coast Guard Sector Juneau units commenced their summer pulse operations in April.