Juneau News

Turkey and stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn-on-the-cob ... and gumboots, hooligan oil and wild celery sauce? "We eat gumboots and wild celery, and devil's club," said Metlakatla native Hannah Henderson, whose mother is Tsimshian and father Irish.

Portland-based SeaPort Airlines has been sued by an Alaska couple because it stopped making payments on a Juneau airplane hangar purchased last year.

Food donations to local charities have poured in the past few days. Darren Adams, manager of the Southeast Alaska Food Bank, said a one-day food drive outside the Alaskan & Proud market downtown on Friday netted nearly 18,000 pounds of food - almost triple its goal.

Gov. Sean Parnell has appointed Juneau's Phyllis Carlson to the state's Suicide Prevention Council and re-appointed Bill Martin to the council.

A woman who acknowledged stealing from a Juneau Little League could be sentenced to up to five years in prison as part of a plea agreement.

Tim Doebler, director of the University of Alaska Anchorage Culinary Arts/Hospitality Program, visited Juneau last week to meet with the Juneau School District to finalize a Tech Prep agreement, so that Culinary Arts I and II and Nutrition high school culinary classes will be offered by Thunder Mountain High School's Culinary Arts teacher Kathleen ...

The Alaska Association for Historic Preservation recently announced its awards and grant recipients: Lifetime Achievement Award went to Steve Peterson, of Anchorage; the Restoration Project Award went to Don Corwin, of Skagway; and the Ten Most Endangered Grant went to St.

The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea, the world's most powerful non-nuclear icebreaker, maneuvers in Gastineau Channel as the crew prepares mooring lines which will secure the cutter to the South Franklin Pier Wednesday, Nov.

A 28-year-old woman on felony probation was caught allegedly smuggling more than 2 1 2 ounces of cocaine inside her most private of places into Juneau last month.

A lack of funding and interest from Whitehorse will keep at least one of the three proposed flights between Juneau and the nearby Canadian city from happening this winter.

A 28-year-old Juneau man indicted for selling OxyContin while out on bail on a separate drug charge pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony counts.

Alaska lawmakers are looking for a bigger building in Anchorage for additional office and meeting space.

Today is the official release date for former Gov. Sarah Palin's anticipated memoir, "Going Rogue," but some local booksellers weren't sure until the 11th hour if it would be available on time.

A 46-year-old man was arrested Thursday night after striking a 28-year-old man in the head multiple times with a glass bottle earlier that evening at a Mendenhall Valley home.

Gastineau Ave. was reopened at about 10 a.m. on Sunday, and residents were allowed to return to their homes, with the exception of a six unit apartment building that was damaged in Saturday's mudslides.

It's in a place often described as isolated where ultrarunner Geoff Roes trains daily.

The federal government is putting a federal prosecutor in Juneau. The U.S. Department of Justice has created a new position in Alaska's capital city.

An early morning mudslide has forced 80 downtown Juneau residents out of their homes, Nov.

JUNEAU, Alaska - They made shelters out of cardboard boxes and duct tape. They warmed themselves around a fire.

Lieutenant governor candidate Jay Ramras made his first campaign trip to Juneau on Thursday, but that follows many trips by the outspoken Fairbanks Republican as a member of the state House of Representatives.