Juneau Independent

Shortly before takeoff, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers put a man on the wrong plane.

Sunlight bounced off the new Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center’s tinted glass exterior Thursday as hundreds of onlookers gathered outside the main entrance for the 1 p.m. ribbon cutting that opened the roughly $300 million hospital building.

An injured snowmachiner caught in an avalanche near the border was picked up by a Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventure helicopter Wednesday evening and brought into Haines for medical treatment.

Per-passenger fee once used for Ocean Ranger program designated for electrical hookups in Juneau and Ketchikan in proposals by governor, Legislature

Haines’ king salmon sport fishery is once more open to anglers, even as state fish forecasters project a smaller run of Chilkat kings this year.

A trio of Juneau friends — who also are business partners — is looking to locate much of their work in Wrangell, putting together a new kind of system that utilities and industries use to remotely monitor and control their operations.

For years, a popular part of many cruises in Southeast Alaska has been sailing up Tracy Arm, a long, narrow fjord marked by steep mountains, glittering waterfalls and calving glaciers. But this season, major cruise lines are skipping it.

A decade of work on a hybrid electric boat propulsion project culminated Thursday as U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski shattered a bottle of champagne on the bow of the F/V Mirage, and saw it move under electric power along the dock at Sitka's Gary Paxton Industrial Park.

A petition to pause the 2026 seasonal sales tax increase gathered hundreds of signatures over the week that it was out at five local stores.

Tickets to ride the Alaska Marine Highway System will go up a little more than 2% effective May 1, the first fare increase since 2019.

Owner of Alpenglow Woodfired Pizza points to costs, landlord cites unpaid rent; alcohol license effort halted.

State says efforts to retrieve them will resume, likely in April.