Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

Petersburg emergency officials are still working on a plan that offers recommendations for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic depending on the number of cases in the community and other factors.

Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday approved a revision and expansion of local law on responding to emergencies, but not before removing some of the most controversial language in the draft ordinance. And some on the assembly are interested in taking another look at the local health mandates that are still in place.

Southeast Alaska won’t have a commercial fishery for red king crab again this fall.

Police and volunteers responded to a truck that went off the road about three miles south of Petersburg Monday morning.

Alaska’s Board of Fisheries this week voted to delay the dates for meetings planned in Cordova and Ketchikan this winter because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Board members want to hold those meetings in-person and will consider springtime gatherings instead. Next month, they’ll hold an online meeting with more information about the schedule for the upcoming year and decisions the board has to tackle before the spring.