Mason Vallarma is the interim manager of the City and Borough of Wrangell. The deadly Nov. 20, 2023 landslide happened on his first day on the job. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) The lethal ...

Some more adventurous hunters in Southeast Alaska are anticipating the start of moose season this month. Some will nab their prized bull, others won’t — a little over 8 percent of the moose killed in ...

WRANGELL — Zimovia Highway snakes along the west coast of Wrangell Island for 14 miles, with steep mountain slopes on one side and the ocean on the other. Many of the houses far out the road sit on ...

At least three people are dead and three others are believed to be missing following a "large landslide" in Alaska, officials said. The landslide was reported along the Zimovia Highway at mile 11 ...

The Wrangell High School boys basketball team had every right to not compete Thursday in their opening game of the 2025 ASAA March Madness Alaska 1A/2A State Basketball Championships at Anchorage’s ...

Sand Point eliminated both of the Southeast teams at the ASAA/First National Bank Alaska 2A State Volleyball Championships on Friday, knocking off Wrangell one round after beating Metlakatla in losers ...

A landslide that ripped down a sopping, heavily forested mountainside in southeast Alaska killed three people, injured a woman and left three other people missing as it smashed into three homes in a ...

Four people are now confirmed dead and two remained missing Sunday, days after a massive landslide in Wrangell on Monday destroyed three homes and left behind a broad field of debris that crews ...

The Juneau Empire’s expanded coverage of the Region V tournament is made possible by Sealaska Corp. Thanks to this sponsorship, this article —and all 2023 Region V coverage — is available online ...

The Stikine River has drawn anglers, loggers and gold miners to Wrangell for decades. Now this southeast Alaska town attracts tourists, many of whom arrive via small cruise ships. The only Alaska ...

After a Monday landslide that authorities say killed at least three people near a remote community in southeast Alaska, a group rescued about 20 people from the affected area, a resident involved in ...

“The Wrangell village was a rough place. No mining hamlet in the placer gulches of California, nor any backwoods village I ever saw, approached it in picturesque, devil-may-care abandon. It was a ...