Juneau Independent

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.

Mayor Tom Morphet will meet with Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska President Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson this week about a dispute that has the borough and tribe headed to a hearing in Alaska Small Claims Court.

Blatchley Middle School has won a U.S. Department of Education award as a high-performing school based on its achievements in academics and other criteria. But the honor was somewhat bittersweet after the school learned the National Blue Ribbon School program – a part of the U.S. Department of Education for more than 40 years to recognize high achieving public and private schools, and schools that close the achievement gap – was discontinued by the Trump administration in

Community’s state legislators host office hours and two town halls while in the Chilkat Valley.

More than a dozen parents of Mt. Edgecumbe High School students shared concerns with the MEHS Advisory Board on Thursday regarding changes in staffing, academics, extracurriculars and residential life at the state-run boarding school.