Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

Three Petersburg men have accepted plea agreements and sentencing in two separate drug cases. One will serve jail time and the other two are on probation.

Some communities in Alaska that release treated waste water into the ocean could be facing big costs for upgrading sewage treatment. State environmental regulators have been meeting with local government representatives about the need to reduce bacteria levels in shoreline mixing zones.

Cases of COVID-19 at the Petersburg Borough’s Mountain View Manor assisted living facility reached 14 in the first outbreak to impact the facility since the start of the pandemic. Nearly all have since been listed as recovered.

The cost of using Petersburg’s harbors could be going up this spring.