Juneau Independent

President Trump has said he wants to eventually shift the burden of disaster relief and recovery onto states. It’s already happening.

Residents of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok began evacuating en masse on Wednesday, flying in military aircraft from their western Alaska communities which were devastated by ex-Typhoon Halong.

The Southeast Alaska Cities Against Drugs task force seized narcotics with a combined estimated value of about $111,000 this week during an investigation in Juneau.

Tlingit dance group celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day at UAS.

In Juneau, people over 55 currently represent 30% of our population and growing.

Alaska has joined more than half of the country in creating artificial intelligence guidance for education as it becomes a larger part of the school day…( Read full story )

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A year after the 2024 presidential election, technologists and election experts are wrestling with their new reality; tech-aided misinformation and disinformation campaigns are and will continue to be a part of the United States’ democratic process.

As Juneau wraps up another long cruise ship season, Mayor Beth Weldon says the city recently hosted a delegation from Greenland seeking advice on how to develop its own cruise tourism industry…( Read full story )

DEI and free speech concerns persist for Alaska’s university community.

Though the federal government shutdown jeopardizes the program that subsidizes scheduled air service to more than 170 cities nationwide — including Wrangell and Petersburg — Alaska Airlines has said it will continue uninterrupted service to its contract communities in the state.

This column is for people who remember — or who heard stories from their parents or grandparents — that staticky, buzzing melody of beeps when someone would dial in for a connection to the internet, and an equally static-sounding machine at the other end would answer.