Juneau Independent

Deer hunting in the greater Sitka-area Game Management Unit 4 is more efficient than anywhere in Alaska, and Alaska Department of Fish and Game data shows the Sitka area deer population is doing well.

Mayor Tom Morphet is proposing transferring the borough’s Tlingit Park property to the Chilkoot Indian Association. 

It was no surprise that everyone on the timber panel at this month’s Alaska Resource Development Council conference had the same message: The industry needs a larger supply of trees to cut.

State ferry officials on Monday were trying to work out a new early-December schedule after learning that the Kennicott will be delayed coming out of a yearlong layup at a Puget Sound shipyard for new generators and maintenance work.

Borough searching for sponsors to share additional costs of global big-terrain backcountry ski competition.

According to regulars, bingo around the valley has been mired in a bit of a downturn. In previous bingo heydays, an enthusiast could’ve gone to almost a game for each day of the week, or at least every other day of the week, said Larry Sweet, noted by fellow players as a bingo expert.

A citizen group working to increase childcare availability is finding some early success, but says a far more significant intervention is still needed.

After less than a year of owning the Palmer Project, American Pacific Mining announced Monday that it had sold the project to Vancouver-based Vizsla Copper. 

Roger and Mary Hames announced Tuesday that after carefully considering all options and offers, they will sell Sea Mart and all their other businesses to the national grocery store chain Albertson’s/Safeway.

In a 3-1 vote, the planning and zoning commission responded to concerns and opposition raised by residents and denied Tidal Network’s application for a conditional-use permit to erect a 230-foot-tall telecommunications tower near 13-Mile Zimovia Highway.

A Haines man with a gunshot wound was medevaced out of the Chilkat Valley for treatment Saturday afternoon. 

The trial of Pietr K. Dabaluz, a 19-year-old Juneau man involved in a fight during an Aug. 30 protest at the Sitka roundabout, has been rescheduled to January while a Juneau judge considers a motion to dismiss the three felony charges Dabaluz faces.