After more than two decades working in Alaska commercial fisheries and years spent inside the state legislature, Juneau fisherman Thatcher Brouwer is moving into a new role advocating for the industry statewide.

Advocates are calling on elected officials and state candidates for the Legislature and governor to make childcare a priority in the next administration.

Fish and Game warns it’s the time of year bears enter hyperphagia, again advises securing trash and other attractants; man says he acted in self-defense.

Haines resident Sue Libenson surprised a bear while hiking on the Jones Point trail on Monday afternoon.

Years after the pandemic peak, the virus is considered endemic, still circulating but causing less harm than before.

The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center on Feb. 4, 2026. (Laurie Craig / Juneau Independent) By U.S. Forest Service The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center will be closed for the winter, starting Oct. 7, to address deferred maintenance in the facility. Announcements of alternate locations for winter programming will come out soon. Maintenance for the facility will include renovation of the heating and ventilation system, replacing lighting and flooring, repointing stone masonry

For Region V high school racers, the hay is in the barn and it is time to eat

Peterson gets 68.1% of vote, four other candidates get between 11.6% and 2.9% during 91st annual Tribal Assembly; Clinton Cook Sr. elected council’s new first vice president.

Voters cut sales taxes last year and, after city leaders responded with budget cuts, residents are being asked this year to increase sales taxes.

Alaska’s mariculture industry turned over a new leaf Friday when the tugboat Ethan B towed a floating mariculture laboratory into Sitka Channel, completing a three-day journey from Ketchikan.

Well, it has begun. The sun has been getting lower in the sky since the solstice in June, but this week we moved into our dark half of the year.

It has been 11 months since Juneau voted to lower the property tax cap and eliminate sales tax on food, also blowing a large hole in the budget.