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 ...

A disaster was declared in Alaska following a landslide in Ketchikan as further landslides are feared. The landslide in ...

"The Rock" statue in Ketchikan, Alaska honors the city's heritage. Jim Powell, an assistant research professor at 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 .

Ketchikan, Alaska, thrives on the cruise industry ... professor at the University of Alaska Southeast’s Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center said the dynamic has changed “dramatically” in ...