Juneau Independent

Carpenter Media’s downsizing means generic ‘staff’ bylines on articles that are mostly rewritten press releases — yet it may be a successful business model.

The nice thing about this dish is that you can choose your favorite vegetables or whatever is in season.

The snow is still thick on the ground in some places and my pond still has a lot of ice. The small alders that grow at the pond edge were bent double by those heavy snows and still have their tops locked in the pond ice. Pairs of mallard visit the pond every day, foraging around the edges and on the fallen seeds on the ice. Other spring things are happening too!

The deadline has been my quietly relentless muse for the last 30 years. She used to give me headaches. But then I met her so many times that the headaches stopped.

Ice-out at Twin Lakes! Some swans soon discovered the open water and quickly took advantage of the access to submerged vegetation. Skunk cabbage inflorescences grew larger, bringing their cheerful yellows to the dark grounds. Mountain bluebirds continued to show up in the wetland, delighting many of us as they head north; they are gone before the end of April.

That evening, served with pasta and lots of Parmesan cheese, it was great.

Media in Alaska and beyond runs wild with reports and fake images of performer doing many improbable things in many improbable spots in The Last Frontier.

Five journalists who spent first half of 2025 at the Juneau Empire before launching the Independent explain how winning entries at both publications originated and were written.

In mid-April I went out on the Airport Dike Trail, hoping to find some fat buds that were loosening up and showing a little green leafiness. Alas, no, too soon for that. My best observation for that walk happened out by the bench.

All that snow — over 16 feet of it! We shoveled. We dealt carefully with the blind junctions, where huge snow berms meant you couldn’t see the cross traffic until you pulled your car well out into their lane. We shoveled again and we dreamed of spring.

Robust competition including gunplay and fisticuffs, notable contributions from Alaska Natives, and two previous ‘Independent’ newspapers among capital city’s chronicles

Two websites publish articles on Easter with AI-generated content, including fake pictures of Alaska Native celebrations; one of the stories vanishes after the Independent asks about it By Mark Sabbatini Juneau Independent Juneau’s not typically a place tourists begin a road or rail tour of Alaska, the town’s Maritime Festival is in May rather than June, and that photo is…well, definitely unreal. Two articles about visiting Alaska’s capital city published at travel websites o