Juneau Independent

Proposed changes to Haines State Forest management could roll back restrictions on logging across wide swaths of the Chilkat Valley. But some say economics — not just government regulation — is preventing large-scale logging returning to the area. 

Coven Petticrew believes dance can help a community heal after a death in the family, so he is organizing a new Native dance group in Wrangell.

Sitka organizations are celebrating local young-growth timber production while giving rise to an outdoor education shelter at Pacific High School that’s being built with Southeast second-growth timber.

The Alaska Board of Education is supporting a recommendation by the state education commissioner to form an ad-hoc committee to address student well-being at Mt. Edgecumbe High School.

Earlier this month, the city of Juneau issued official warnings advising hundreds of residents to evacuate their homes due to avalanche risk following heavy snowfall. 

Braves’ boys, Lady Braves’ girls run past Huskies, Lady Huskies.

Some residents say it may undermine subsistence harvest rights in the state; public comment period open until Feb. 13.

The Alaska Board of Game's 2026 Southeast Alaska regulatory meeting opened in Wrangell today with a proposal that could raise the bag limit for non-Alaska resident hunters in the Sitka-area Game Management Unit 4 among issues to be decided.

A recent stretch of cold weather, plus high heating oil prices, has been a recipe for budget crunch, residents say. Borough decision makers, however, disagree on what should be done. 

The borough has officially partnered with a growing cruise line to bring a new dock to the community. The borough assembly voted unanimously on Jan. 7 to approve a 40-year tidelands lease for American Cruise Lines (ACL), which will build the dock. 

JDHS earns state playoff berth with two wins over conference foe.

The Wild Fish Conservancy’s use of the Equal Access to Justice Act is alarming the small-boat fishermen who fought the conservancy’s lawsuit that sought to close the Southeast Alaska chinook troll fishery to preserve migratory chinook as prey for the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales that feed in waters near Puget Sound.