A hub of tourism and commercial fishing in Alaska's scenic southeastern panhandle, Ketchikan is known as the gateway to the Misty Fiords National Monument, one of the area's major outdoor attractions.

During the past 10 years, Ketchikan, Alaska -- the Alaska Queen's future home -- saw the number of visitors nearly double, to 840,000 people in 2006, according to a city tourism bureau.

Alaska Native stories are a major part of this small-ship cruise tour between Ketchikan and Sitka. Alaskan Dream Cruises is the only Indigenous-owned cruise line in the United States, and guests ...

Ketchikan's pulp mill was the last one still operating in Alaska when it shut down in 1997. Hundreds of good-paying jobs and the businesses that supported them went with it.

Emergency crews in the Alaska tourist hub of Ketchikan braced on Monday for more landslides after a large, rain-drenched slope gave way on Sunday, killing one person, injuring three others and ...