Both sport and commercial fishing interests are backing a bill to reestablish a surcharge on sportfishing licenses to pay for hatchery maintenance and some king salmon production in Southeast Alaska.
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Petersburg is reporting no active COVID-19 cases for the first time in over two months.
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For about two decades, the parks and public spaces around Petersburg have bloomed each spring with the hard work of groundskeeper Jesse O’Connor. He leaves that job at the end of this month.
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Southeast Alaska leaders and residents last week testified for restoration of state funding cuts and in some cases additional state money to make up for a loss of federal funding. Those were some of the voices heard by the Alaska House finance committee as it considers a state operating budget for the upcoming year.
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The state’s Department of Natural Resources has issued another preliminary decision on transferring state land to the Petersburg borough.
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