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Construction on a new set of breakwaters at Banana Point wrapped up on Aug. 7. Petersburg Public Works Director Aaron Marohl said the project will improve safety at the boat launch, which is about 25 miles south of town. "This will create a safer boat ramp for both the water taxis and our sporting teams that go back and forth between here and Wrangell," he said. Banana Point is an...

For the second time in three years, federal legislation to create a land-owning Native corporation in Wrangell and four other Southeast communities has passed out a Senate committee. But the bill still has a ways to go before it could become law. It would have to win passage in the full Senate and concurrence in […] The post Landless Natives bill wins approval in U.S. Senate committee appeared first on Chilkat Valley News.