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The Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting that was planned for this month in Ketchikan will be held in Anchorage instead in March. The decision is a loss for Ketchikan’s winter economy and is leaving some feeling cut out of the decision-making process.

Petersburg’s number of active COVID-19 cases rose early this week and the Petersburg Medical Center says it’s likely the omicron variant is spreading here like it is elsewhere.

Petersburg’s active COVID-19 case count was at 77 late Friday evening.

A bill that would create new Alaska Native corporations in Southeast Alaska and grant them federal forestlands from the Tongass National Forest has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate.