Juneau Independent

Beginning Friday, Alaska Seaplanes and Island Air Express will add a 6% surcharge to customer fares, the company announced Monday in a media release. That surcharge will not apply to freight customers. 

Judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Alaska Forest Association, Alcan Timber and Viking Lumber to mandate more timber sales.

U.S. Forest Service leadership is in flux as the agency takes sweeping actions in managing the 17-million-acre Tongass National Forest, and making regulatory and administrative changes at all levels, Alaska-based officials reported this week.

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.

After three years as a finalist, the Haines Borough Public Library has won the 2026 National Medal for Museum and Library Services, the nation’s highest honor for libraries. 

Aaron Jacobs, senior hydrologist for the National Weather Service, makes a presentation Tuesday morning during the Southeast Alaska Landslide Information and Preparedness Partnership Conference at Harrigan Centennial Hall. (James Poulson / Daily Sitka Sentinel) By Andrea Burtzel Daily Sitka Sentinel Community members, scientists, tribal representatives and government officials from across Southeast Alaska met in Sitka Tuesday and Wednesday for an event focused on landslide pl

Regulations and policies governing hunting and fishing on federal lands will be on the table at the Southeast Alaska Subsistence Regional Advisory Council meeting in Juneau next week.

Haines newspaper reports package deliveries to town from Lower 48 range from three days for priority shipping to 18 days for ground transport from the Northeast.

It was windy and the temperature was in the single digits on Sunday as Nate Arrants stood on thin ice at Chilkoot Lake. 

The Wrangell borough assembly on Feb. 24 unanimously approved a three-year lease with JAG Marine Group, giving the company time to decide if it will proceed with development of a shipyard at the 6-Mile Mill property.

In a five-hour regular meeting Thursday, the Mt. Edgecumbe High School Advisory Board voted to recommend and request that the state re-open hiring for the superintendent position at the state-run boarding school, allowing for "a thorough, rigorous and complete hiring process with input from Advisory Board members and stakeholders."

A three-tiered raven hat. A life-sized wooden beaver bowl. A blanket with designs representing important locations like Basket Bay. These are a few of the items displayed on stage during a Sealaska Heritage Institute lecture on the history of the Angoon Tlingit beaver crest on Wednesday, Feb. 18.