Juneau Independent

Winds in Juneau peak near 60 mph, top 80 mph elsewhere in Southeast Alaska; Thane Road reopens after being closed overnight.

It’s an election year for governor and the Legislature. Which means it’s a chance to elect people who will help pull our foot out from under the fence and get Alaska back into the game. Sitting on the fence is not an answer.

The town’s economic development board, which advises the assembly, has raised several questions about a possible borough land lease for a California-based company to build and operate a small-scale data center.

House measure would allow the state to follow childhood vaccination recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which opposes the administration’s vaccine cutbacks

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) has teamed up with Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to introduce a bill to block President Trump from taking over Greenland. The legislation, the NATO Unity Protection Act, would prohibit the use of Department of Defense or Department of State funding to blockade, occupy, annex or otherwise assert control over the sovereign territory of a NATO member state. The legislat

Record rainfall and warm temperatures coincided with a Friday afternoon avalanche that left rock, wood and other debris across a stretch of Green Lake Road, about a half-mile past the Medvejie hatchery.

City warns of significant avalanche risk for Behrends slide path; flood advisory for Jordan Creek near mall until 9 a.m. Wednesday; cold-weather warming shelter will remain in Thane.

The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska recently launched a new foundation. Its main goal right now is to fundraise for a new education campus in Juneau.

Attorneys will be available at events in Anchorage, Bethel, Fairbanks and Juneau to provide free, confidential legal assistance.

‘Local structural engineers are booked out several weeks due to the widespread impacts across town‚’ update states; tenant estimates process may take up to two weeks.

Newcomer Nano Brooks lone dissenter in 7-1 vote, arguing price is too high; other members say status of existing facilities, necessities at new site justify higher-than-expected cost.

Too often in recent months this childhood taunt has come to mind as I have listened to or read accounts of forceful interventions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or border patrol agents in deportation raids that are rocking cities (mostly Democratically-governed) around the country.