Juneau Independent

A distressed bald eagle was taken to the Alaska Raptor Center for care on Valentine’s Day Saturday fter a good Samaritan spotted it hanging upside down in a tree then falling to the ground, on Jarvis Street.

The Departments of Agriculture and Interior announced Thursday they're extending the deadline for public comments on changes proposed to the Federal Subsistence Management Program. The deadline to submit public comments was changed from Feb. 13 to March 30, six weeks away.

Sitka Magistrate Judge Pamela Stahla-Kernin sentenced Pietr K. Dabaluz to ten days in jail and three years of probation Wednesday, on the Juneau man's guilty plea to misdemeanor assault charges arising from his actions during an Aug. 30, 2025, protest rally at the Sitka roundabout.

A bill pitched by Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration as a “paradigm shift” for state forest timber harvest will not be fast-tracked through the legislature as the governor has requested.

Legislature schedules hearings with state education leaders Wednesday about Sitka boarding school that has lost 25% of its students this year

About a hundred people crowded into the cramped Arrivals area of the Sitka airport terminal Saturday evening to welcome home three Kaagwaantaan clan hats held for more than 100 years in a Pennsylvania museum.

Four-ship company that offered weeklong voyages for 40 to 80 passengers halting voyages so parent company Allen Marine can focus on other operations.

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.