The Ketchikan Visitors Bureau estimates the First City will see roughly 1.47 million visitors on more than 500 ships this season. That number is relatively consistent with last year’s numbers.

The country’s only Indigenous-owned cruise line. Founded in 1970 by Bob and Betty Allen when they renovated an old boat that would be renamed St. Michael after a Russian Orthodo ...

This oceanfront property in southeast Alaska, with concrete floors and a ... of custom-building a home over the water in rural Ketchikan. Photo: Kyoko Fierro for the Wall Street Journal This ...

In the immediate aftermath, a coalition of private boat owners volunteered to ferry stranded people and students around the slide. Dubbed the “Ketchikan Navy,” the boat corps gave way to an ...