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 ...
The top of Wrangell’s upper reservoir dam in March 2022. (Sage Smiley / KSTK) The dams holding back drinking water in the Southeast Alaska community of Wrangell are over a century old. They’re leaky, ...
Bigger than Denali and Gates of the Arctic combined, this Alaska giant is a playground of peaks, glaciers and untamed ...
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This is a developing story. An 11-year-old girl found Saturday evening is the fourth confirmed fatality of a landslide last Monday in Wrangell, with two other people still missing, the Alaska ...
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 ...
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 ...
Three people have been found dead, including a young girl, and others are still missing after a large landslide covered a highway near a remote community in southeast Alaska on Monday, according to ...
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 ...