Juneau News

OPINION: Acrimony over current events has reached a fever pitch. And we all need to get a sense of humor about it, myself included.

The University of Alaska Southeast campus in Juneau will eliminate four positions as it deals with a $2 million deficit this year.

Mention daycare to pretty much any parent in Southeast Alaska, and you'll get an earful.

The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium will receive a $53 million settlement from Indian Health Service for about fifteen years of unpaid contract costs.

Alaska DOT fined $118,000 by EPA: The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has agreed to pay a $118,000 penalty for hazardous waste violations, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency news release.

Surrounded by the late Tlingit elder's family and friends, Gov. Sean Parnell signs legislation establishing Nov. 14 as Dr. Walter Soboleff Day in Alaska.

Two male inmates were hospitalized Tuesday after they overdosed on controlled substances at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau, according to an online dispatch from Alaska State Troopers.

More than 100 Juneau volunteers recently joined City and Borough crews to pull weeds, sweep, hose, scrub and pick up what some estimate to be thousands of cigarette butts.

OPINION: Those in favor of saving SB21 from a referendum rest their position on fallacies; Alaskans will suffer higher taxes if we don't repeal the tax cuts.

Managers of Juneau's most popular tourist attraction say they're planning for a more sustainable facility, even as the very object of many a visitors' fascination continues retreating at a faster rate because of climate change.

The Juneau Economic Development Council is asking that question as it conducts a market demand study of senior housing and support services.

Gladi Kulp shows her senior tax exemption card at IGA. She says she normally doesn't use it for small purchases, but her cashier knows her and prompted her for the card number.

In this Nov. 6, 2005 file photo, Ralph Strickland guides a crab pot full of red king crabs onto the deck of F/V Frigidland during the current fishery in the waters off of Juneau, Alaska.

This isn't the first time Sophia Nylen has donated her earnings to a cause. Her mother says she's given money to The Glory Hole.

Not all of Alaska's research materials and government records will move to Seattle when the National Archives and Records Administration closes its Anchorage branch.

Palin launches online channel: Exhorting viewers to "live life vibrantly, purposefully and boldly" former half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Sunday announced on Facebook the launch of her own online media site .

Mention daycare to pretty much any parent in Southeast Alaska, and you'll get an earful.

In June, city landscapers thinned the alder trees near a sledding hill between Saint Ann's Avenue and the Treadwell Ice Arena.

Ucore Rare Metals Inc is pleased to provide the following update on operational activities in progress on the Bokan - Dotson Ridge Project in South East Alaska .

A black bear, like this one, was hunted by conservation officers and tracking dogs at a popular Port Coquitlam park Friday.