Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

Petersburg residents are reporting scam, robo-phone calls regarding their social security accounts.

A bill to reestablish a surcharge for sport fishing licenses to fund Alaska hatchery programs got its first hearing in the state legislature late last month.

For the first time in over a week Petersburg’s active COVID-19 case count dropped Monday.

Petersburg remained at 62 total active cases of COVID-19 Sunday, February 28, with the number of new cases in the community’s outbreak slowing a little over the weekend.

Despite some of the worst weather in recent memory, winter trolling for king salmon in Southeast Alaska has been on par with recent seasons, with a low catch and relatively good price for those fish.