Juneau Independent

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.

Juneau, other Southeast communities also dealing with issues related to how maps are used for policymaking, development

When Elizabeth Bagley received an email from a representative of Pope Leo XIV inviting her to a climate change conference near Rome, she was sure it was spam.

Metlakatla Indian Community, which has been at the forefront in the effort to control the invader, has trapped more than 40,000 of them this year.

The 29th Alaska Bald Eagle Festival will draw raptor enthusiasts to Haines in early November, though it’s not clear how many people will show up as organizers say event registrations are slow. 

Much like Alaska’s Permanent Fund, which voters approved in 1976 to ensure that some of the state’s oil revenues would be saved for future needs, Wrangell has its own permanent fund that holds a piece of one-time federal money from almost 30 years ago.

Seventh-grader Ayla Harris wasn’t enrolled in the filmmaking elective at Stikine Middle School last year, but that didn’t stop her from knocking on a door, pitching a project and teaching herself how to piece a film together. A month later, she had a documentary — and now an invitation to participate in the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Canada in November.