Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday approved an agreement for voluntary COVID-19 testing for employees at the borough’s Mountain View Manor assisted living facility. They also voted to extend other agreements for airport testing and quarantine or isolation space for individuals without a permanent home.

Health care workers and others in Petersburg received the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in Petersburg last Thursday and Friday.

Donald Trump Jr. was spotted in Petersburg this month and posted video leaving Petersburg’s harbor on a guided hunting trip.

The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Petersburg Thursday afternoon and the Petersburg Medical Center planned to start giving the first shots soon after.

Scientists are on the lookout for an invasive crab species expected to move north into Alaskan waters. This year in Southeast Alaska, they added a new tool to the monitoring effort for European green crab, a threat to the state’s shellfish and salmon.