One commercial dive fishery in Southeast Alaska is off to a strong start this fall, while another struggles with heightened challenges from ocean conditions and its main market.
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Petersburg High School is getting automated, unmanned cameras for the gymnasium to stream and record events. Viewing sports will require a paid subscription but other events will not.
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One of the five hunters involved in last week’s fatal boating accident in Duncan Canal has written his account of that night. Mike Payne of Petersburg was skippering the Fish Hawk on an annual duck and goose hunt. Two men were in a skiff that flipped. One man was rescued from the chilly waters on a stormy night, while another perished.
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Petersburg School District is considering adopting a proposal that restricts sex offenders on campus. The state’s school board association sent a sample policy to all public school boards but Petersburg has to figure out some local details first before approving its own policy.
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The moose hunt in central Southeast Alaska ends this week and hunters have already equaled the total harvest from last year.
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A Coast Guard helicopter Friday found the body of a man from a capsized skiff in Duncan Canal west of Petersburg.
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Environmental groups are asking the U.S. Forest Service to shelve a Tongass National Forest timber sale it’s working on, while a legal challenge to a similar project plays out in court.
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Searchers are looking for a hunter from a skiff that capsized sometime overnight and is missing in the salt chuck at the northern end of Duncan Canal west of Petersburg.
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