Ketchikan is surrounded by the Tongass National Forest, a temperate rainforest that encompasses much of southeast Alaska. Landslides strike often in the region, but garner little notice when they ...

The cruise industry was already booming in Alaska, but some locals say its continued growth is putting a strain on the ...

The U.S. Forest Service’s draft environmental impact statement for the South Revilla timber sale proposes chain-sawing 5,115 acres of old-growth forest near Ketchikan. It also would allow bulldozing .