Juneau Independent

Klawock boys win but Kake girls, Skagway boys and Hoonah girls all fall.

Longtime Juneauite, Daisy Johanna Davenport, passed away Dec. 31, 2025, peacefully in Juneau, Alaska, with her family by her side.

Former school board member Emil Mackey says he’s expressing unhappiness about Assembly not fully funding project; CBJ attorney says excluding bricks may violate free speech protections.

Alaskans like to take chances, buy raffle tickets and place bets. Whether fun trips to Vegas, time at their local bar playing pull-tabs, guessing where the sanitized and hardened moose “nuggets” will land when dropped from the air on a grid in Anchorage, or making it down an icy hill without chains. 

Tlingit clan leaders L’eiwtú Éesh Herman Davis and Aanyáanáx Ray Wilson will receive honorary doctorates of laws from the University of Alaska Southeast during the May 3 spring commencement ceremony at UAS in Juneau.

Legislation in at least eight states would expand the rights of doctors, nurses, hospitals and even insurance companies to refuse to provide or pay for care — from contraception and fertility services to medical marijuana and childhood vaccines — that conflicts with their religious or moral beliefs.

New lawsuit says leading companies failed — in thousands of cases — to get charities’ permission before trying to raise money in their names.

Wind and snow whipped at Kotzebue preacher Rusty Dimmick and three travelers as they stood in a circle holding hands. The travelers, all from the Northwest Arctic, planned to drive over 600 miles to dozens of remote villages across Western Alaska by snowmachine, educating rural residents about voting.

First-term U.S. House member says ‘window of opportunity for Alaska will not remain open forever’ on oil, fisheries and other industry growth.

School board votes Tuesday to enter contract negotiations with Thunder Mountain Middle School principal; he will replace Frank Hauser, who is departing June 30.

Environmental plaintiffs say the administration’s decision to revoke decades-old protections for land around the trans-Alaska pipeline violates several laws.

A trial date for a lawsuit between the Juneau School District and its support staff union won’t be decided on for another six months.