Juneau Independent

The Department of Homeland Security is headed for a shutdown as lawmakers on Capitol Hill remained stuck Thursday over bans on face masks and other immigration tactics. The department’s funding expires Friday night.

President Donald Trump boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Official White House photo) By Rich Moniak U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, called a social media post shared by President Donald Trump last week “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House." Sen. Dan Sullivan called it “offensive.” Trump took the post down but wouldn’t apologize because he “didn’t make a mistake.” I don’t need to elaborate on the racist

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Sitka Magistrate Judge Pamela Stahla-Kernin sentenced Pietr K. Dabaluz to ten days in jail and three years of probation Wednesday, on the Juneau man's guilty plea to misdemeanor assault charges arising from his actions during an Aug. 30, 2025, protest rally at the Sitka roundabout.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 219-211 on Wednesday to end President Donald Trump’s national emergency at the Canadian border and end tariffs on Canadian imports.

A bill pitched by Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration as a “paradigm shift” for state forest timber harvest will not be fast-tracked through the legislature as the governor has requested.

Alice Taff, Christina Love, Maria Gladziszewski and Seikoonie Fran Houston are the four women nominated by community.

Minority House Republicans raised legal concerns, but the extension passed anyway and advanced out of the Capitol.

Former Juneau resident Milton A. Brown, III, 66, passed away after an illness in Palm Springs, CA, on Feb. 11, 2025.

Alaska’s senior senator says Dunleavy administration blew one-time opportunity to ‘save’ aging ferry system during speech at Southeast Conference’s Mid-Session Summit.

President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.

In annual legislative address, Chief Justice Susan Carney said court-ordered limits on delays to prevent cases from dragging on for years are working, but the state has more to do.