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Local residents welcomed the start of 2010 with parties and an icy dip in the waters of South Harbor.

Local police today are investigating the death of Bradley Fletcher, a 24-year-old Petersburg man.

A city manager firing, city council arguments, lawsuits and landslides were some of the biggest news stories of 2009 in Petersburg. Hydro-electric power development and work at Petersburg's airport were also among the top headlines of the year.

On their late-fall research trip to study humpback whale and krill interactions in Seymour Canal, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration made some exceptionally clear recordings of individual whale songs. KFSK Public Radio played some of these recordings for wildlife biologist Chris Gabriele. She leads an underwater acoustic monitoring program at Glacier Bay National Park and she studies whale vocalizations. Matt Lichtenstein asked Gabriele about the Seymour whale songs

Returns of chum salmon to Southeast Alaska’s largest hatchery facilities next year may not keep pace with 2009’s crop. Hatchery managers say they’re forecasting a drop-off in chum numbers around the region.