Author: Sage Smiley

Wrangell Public Schools passes $5 million budget for the coming fiscal year

The budget passed by the school board on March 20 is more than $300,000 less than the current year’s revised budget. But even with expenses tightened down, the FY24 budget projects a $53,000 deficit, which will be paid using the district’s savings.

Southeast commercial salmon fisheries to see continued restrictions as managers try to preserve kings

With Southeast Alaska king salmon stocks in a years-long slump, fisheries across the region can expect restrictions aimed at letting more kings return to spawn.

With looming financial burdens, Wrangell’s school board and assembly discuss consolidating schools

Whether the Wrangell district ultimately decides to consolidate its schools, it won’t happen this next school year. But community leadership agrees that all possible solutions to the district’s budget woes should remain on the table – at least for now.

State lawmakers join tribes, local governments calling on feds to intervene in Canadian mining upriver of Alaska

Southeast Alaska lawmakers are joining tribal and municipal governments, calling on the federal government to stop – at least temporarily – British Columbia’s mining activities in transboundary watersheds.