Juneau Independent

City warns of significant avalanche risk for Behrends slide path; flood advisory for Jordan Creek near mall until 9 a.m. Wednesday; cold-weather warming shelter will remain in Thane.

The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska recently launched a new foundation. Its main goal right now is to fundraise for a new education campus in Juneau.

Attorneys will be available at events in Anchorage, Bethel, Fairbanks and Juneau to provide free, confidential legal assistance.

‘Local structural engineers are booked out several weeks due to the widespread impacts across town‚’ update states; tenant estimates process may take up to two weeks.

Newcomer Nano Brooks lone dissenter in 7-1 vote, arguing price is too high; other members say status of existing facilities, necessities at new site justify higher-than-expected cost.

Too often in recent months this childhood taunt has come to mind as I have listened to or read accounts of forceful interventions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or border patrol agents in deportation raids that are rocking cities (mostly Democratically-governed) around the country.

Providers notched a legal win this week when a judge temporarily halted the administration’s requirements for grant applications.

Part 1: Gubernatorial hopefuls weigh in on oil taxes and how to cook fish

One planeload of people, another plane full of shovels, and new avalanche monitoring equipment to observe Mt. Juneau flown in to help mitigation efforts, city manager says.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed whether Idaho and West Virginia laws banning transgender athletes from participating on women’s and girls’ sports teams are constitutional. 

As the Alaska Legislature prepares to return to Juneau, lawmakers once again confront a familiar and contentious choice. The governor has proposed a so-called “full” Permanent Fund dividend and a budget that relies on a roughly $1.5 billion draw from the Constitutional Budget Reserve to deliver it. 

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