Juneau News

The preliminary magnitude 6.0 temblor was centered about 96 miles west of Juneau, according to the Alaska Earthquake Information Center.

A federal inspector has been sent to examine the Alaska site where a tourism train derailed this week, leaving 19 people with minor injuries, a U.S. Transportation Department spokesman said on Thursday.

A group of Japanese fishermen is touring the Northwest United States to get an education in fisheries.

Air quality initiative headed to Fairbanks ballot: Interior Alaska voters will get another chance to decide whether the Fairbanks North Star Borough should have the authority to regulate air quality in the region.

Anchorage Judgeship Parnell appoints Corey to Anchorage bench Eds: APNewsNow. JUNEAU, Alaska - Gov. Sean Parnell has appointed a private practice attorney to the Anchorage Superior Court.

The former Alaska governor was pulled over July 16 and cited for driving between 10 and 19 mph over the speed limit.

A downtown cleanup begins at 8 o'clock Friday morning at Pocket Park on the corner of Front and Franklin streets.

The City and Borough of Juneau's Planning Commission may have decided the first neighborhood appeal related to a group home for women leaving prison.

Mod Carousel founder The Luminous Pariah, aka Seneca Harper, has returned to Juneau with his troupe of "boylesque" performers to entertain and enchant his favorite audience - his hometown.

No serious injuries were reported after a White Pass & Yukon Route train reportedly derailed north of Skagway Wednesday afternoon.

Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series about efforts to improve the condition of downtown Juneau.

Coast Guard Station Ketchikan 47-foot Motor Life Boat crewmembers medevaced an injured mariner from a fishing vessel near Kendrick Bay and an Air Station Sitka Mh-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced an ailing passenger from a cruise ship near Zarembo Island.

Twilight Cafe wins top Storefront Star award from the Juneau Economic Development Council for most improved.

Ucore has contracted with SRK Consulting of Vancouver, BC, to compile baseline data and qualitative results from ongoing engineering studies to produce a formal Plan of Operations for the Bokan Project.

The public was encouraged to participate in an oil tax discussion last week during a debate between current and former state government officials broadcast across Alaska.

The Governor's Office is hoping for sunny weather for the fifth annual Governor's Family Picnic.

Work is scheduled to begin in October on an update to a Juneau-area harbor. Statter Harbor, at Auke Bay, is set to get a sea walk, picnic pavilion and added parking.

Juneau artist Ricky Tagaban holds a Chilkat headband with sea otter fur and shot gun shells.

Chum salmon fisherman Fumiiro Sugawara says, in Japan, Alaska is known for its king salmon.

Coast Guard conducts dual medevacs in Southeast: The U.S. Coast Guard conducted two medevacs in Southeast on Sunday, deploying responders to aide an injured 21-year-old female aboard a fishing vessel near Kendrick Bay and to airlift an ailing cruise ship passenger near Zarembo Island.