Juneau Independent

Teacher contracts remain a major unknown, with mediation talks set to continue Friday.

Children living in two cities that removed fluoride from drinking water are suffering from shocking levels of severe tooth decay, studies have found. 

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Lemon Creek Multimodal Path in Juneau is among projects on hold that received funding from Biden-era program.

House lawmakers are scheduled to vote on the proposal at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, with big spending from savings possible.

Klawock boys win but Kake girls, Skagway boys and Hoonah girls all fall.

Longtime Juneauite, Daisy Johanna Davenport, passed away Dec. 31, 2025, peacefully in Juneau, Alaska, with her family by her side.

Former school board member Emil Mackey says he’s expressing unhappiness about Assembly not fully funding project; CBJ attorney says excluding bricks may violate free speech protections.

Alaskans like to take chances, buy raffle tickets and place bets. Whether fun trips to Vegas, time at their local bar playing pull-tabs, guessing where the sanitized and hardened moose “nuggets” will land when dropped from the air on a grid in Anchorage, or making it down an icy hill without chains. 

Tlingit clan leaders L’eiwtú Éesh Herman Davis and Aanyáanáx Ray Wilson will receive honorary doctorates of laws from the University of Alaska Southeast during the May 3 spring commencement ceremony at UAS in Juneau.

Legislation in at least eight states would expand the rights of doctors, nurses, hospitals and even insurance companies to refuse to provide or pay for care — from contraception and fertility services to medical marijuana and childhood vaccines — that conflicts with their religious or moral beliefs.