Juneau Independent

Veto sidesteps a problem with timing and a potential conflict with a ballot measure that Alaskans are already voting on.

‘If they get into the trash, it’s our fault.’

Thursday is Alaska's 99th annual Flag Day, which celebrates the first raising of the Alaska territorial flag — later adopted as Alaska's state flag — on July 9, 1927.

For almost three decades the Southeast Alaska Food Bank has served people in Juneau, as well as other Southeast communities.

The owners of the Palmer Project, the advanced mineral exploration project in the Chilkat Valley, say they’re partnering with the State of Alaska on a new industrial port in Haines.

Nine years ago Bill Walker, in his last year as governor of Alaska, sat in the laborer’s union in Fairbanks and signed House Bill 331. It had been passed in the last three days of that year’s session. Walker accompanied his signature ceremony with a shockingly untrue mantra about jobs, oil company investment, and basically the standard mythology that accompanies any legislation that directs more Alaska public resources into resource development corporate hands.

Alaska Federation of Natives and a nonprofit organization have formed a new program bringing veterinary care and public health service to villages in need.

Biggest change is to service in Prince William Sound due to extended maintenance of the Aurora state ferry.

Devon Rivera and Chelsea Willis are currently facing assault-related charges after Torres was attacked in downtown parking garage in April; he died about a month later.

Upcoming funding shifts in the federal food stamp program are poised to cost states billions of dollars, heightening fears that more Americans will lose access to the nation’s largest food assistance program.

Bureau of Land Management says it will not ‘unreasonably limit development’ of oil and gas in the refuge until many facilities are built.

Henry ‘Hank’ Dobson Bryson passed peacefully on July 6, 2026, with family by his side.