Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

An exemption for an additional registration requirement for commercial fishing boats in Alaska is moving in the Alaska legislature.

A dedicated group of girls is spending their Wednesday afternoons at Stedman Elementary School in Petersburg building robots, hydraulic machines and learning to code. The club is one of several that have formed in Southeast Alaska to develop the next generation of women in computer science jobs using the curriculum from a national organization.

The Alaska Marine Highway is contracting for two boat trips in the northern panhandle to fill in for the near total shutdown of the ferry system.

The head of a regional hatchery organization in Southeast Alaska is retiring after a 40-year career with the Sitka-based non-profit.

Rotary club president-elect Bennett McGrath has one food collection box at Anchor Properties to...