Juneau Independent

City planners are asking Juneau residents to help shape the community’s future as work continues on a major update to the city’s Comprehensive Plan…( Read full story )

As Alaska braces for another challenging budget season, state Sen. Jesse Kiehl, D-Juneau, is calling for realism in Governor Mike Dunleavy’s soon-to-be-released spending plan. Speaking at a Juneau Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Oct. 6, Kiehl said that lawmakers are preparing for difficult financial decisions ahead…( Read full story )

To see Juneau in full color, you need not wait six months until the cloud cover lifts. “Landscapes of Southeast Alaska,” an exhibit by Johanna Griggs and presented by the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council, is at once vibrant and subtle. The show opened at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center on First Friday…( Read full story )

Juneau’s avalanche forecasters are gearing up for winter. The state Department of Transportation and the local electric utility re-installed scientific instruments to help them predict avalanche risk at their largest research site in town…( Read full story )

The University of Alaska will increase tuition for the entire system for a second year in a row, and it’s higher than what its administrators recommended. The Board of Regents approved increasing tuition across the board by 4% next year during a meeting Friday, despite an initial proposal from administrators of only 3%…( Read full story )

Five firefighter apprentices in Juneau received their pins on Saturday, meaning they formally joined the force. The five new recruits are officially EMTs and are welcomed by an understaffed department…( Read full story )

As the federal government shutdown stretches into its second month, federal workers remain furloughed. Now, SNAP benefits are also likely delayed for November.

A beloved maintenance employee at the University of Alaska Southeast starred in a low-budget sci-fi comedy a decade ago. This week, some UAS students screened “Space Trucker Bruce” to honor their friendly campus handyman, and to satisfy their own curiosity.

A $25,000 award will help the tribe upgrade equipment, fund harvests and strengthen food education.

A project meant to bring more than 70 units of new workforce housing to downtown Juneau is dead before it could even break ground. The developer blames the city for stopping it. The city says the project was a risk to public safety…( Read full story )

City officials are working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to plan the next phase of flood-control work along the Mendenhall River. Mayor Beth Weldon said Corps officials spent an entire day in Juneau last week discussing next steps and funding options for the multi-phase project…( Read full story )

The mayor’s task force on short-term rentals wrapped up four months ago. It was mostly made up of homeowners, not renters. And its findings offered no immediate recommendations on regulations or restrictions for the Juneau Assembly to consider…( Read full story )

In the packed and dark Gold Town Theater, Karen Miceli watched home movies flick across the screen, while a two-man band played along. They were her own family’s videos, filmed in Juneau between the 1930s and 50s…( Read full story )

Alaska has joined more than half of the country in creating artificial intelligence guidance for education as it becomes a larger part of the school day…( Read full story )

As Juneau wraps up another long cruise ship season, Mayor Beth Weldon says the city recently hosted a delegation from Greenland seeking advice on how to develop its own cruise tourism industry…( Read full story )

The hope was that by allowing for denser housing in those areas, it would entice private developers to build units there. But so far, nobody’s biting.

Yaaḵoosgé Daakahídi High School teacher Electra Gardinier talked to students during a recent mock election in her fourth period U.S....

A former Juneau chiropractor accused of sexual assault now has a public defender.  Last month, Jeffrey Fultz’s trial ended in a mistrial...

Bartlett Regional Hospital is taking over ownership of an independently-owned pediatric clinic in downtown Juneau.

Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is yet again expanding its services in Juneau. This time, a spokesperson says the Alaska...

Joseph Murphy died of a heart attack on Aug. 14, 2015 in Juneau’s Lemon Creek Correctional Center after guards refused him care. He was...

Learning outdoors is nothing new for students in Juneau’s Tlingit, Culture, Language and Literacy program. That’s what they did on their...

A gold exploration project at Coeur Alaska’s Kensington Mine north of Juneau has revealed thousands more ounces of precious metals. The...

Ships could pose a risk to seabirds migrating through Alaska’s waters. Researchers mapped where ship traffic overlapped with bird traffic...

Juneau’s cat population has been growing out of control for the last few years. Juneau Animal Rescue relies on fosters to help with...

After a week of deliberation, the jury continues to consider the evidence in a sexual assault trial against a former Juneau chiropractor....

Rep. Celeste Maloy, R-Utah, was in Juneau with 10 other members of Congress on Monday

The trial against a former Juneau chiropractor accused of assaulting a dozen patients under the guise of medical care has ended, and...

Cruise ship passengers who arrive at Juneau’s farthest dock may not have to trek as far to get to downtown in the coming years…( Read...

The University of Alaska Southeast has received a grant to train school administrators at local school districts…( Read full story )

Presiding Judge Larry Woolford declared a mistrial Wednesday for two of the 16 sexual assault and harassment charges against Jeff Fultz. Fultz will continue to stand trial for the remaining 14 charges.

Teacher Janelle Ondrejka led a small, six-person reading group at Thunder Mountain Middle School in July. She called on students Astrid...

Suicide Basin is a slurry of water, icebergs and silver silt between jagged peaks, and it’s the source of Juneau’s annual glacial...

When speaking of killer whales, it’s easiest to start with numbers. Forty to 56 interlocking teeth. Bodies nearly 30 feet long and...

This was the second week of testimony in the trial against Jeffrey Fultz, a former Juneau chiropractor who is accused of assaulting more...

Hundreds of people in Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley are living on the front line of a climate change disaster they didn’t see coming. This...

Students used hammers to stamp different shapes into pieces of leather in the last moments of a maker space class at Thunder Mountain...

An unlikely discovery in a cave on Prince of Wales Island could help scientists understand Earth’s climate history.

Registration for after-school child care in the Juneau School District opened last Friday, but the information the district provided to...

In an isolated town like Juneau, access to tattoo artists can be limited. But this past weekend, dozens of artists lined Elizabeth...

Five commercial fishermen from Alaska and Washington have been indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of conspiring to illegally...

The trial against former Juneau chiropractor Jeffrey Fultz , accused of assaulting more than a dozen women under the guise of medical...

That’s after the Juneau Assembly voted in June to increase residential water and sewer rates by 5% this fiscal year. The rate will...

Juneau Animal Rescue may have a location for a new, updated shelter. At Monday’s Assembly meeting, members gave the OK for the city...

After 10 days of jury selection, lawyers read opening statements Tuesday in the trial of a former Juneau chiropractor arrested four years ago on multiple sexual assault charges.

A Juneau child care center is set to open in a new location nearly a year after being displaced by flooding. But challenges in finding...

“Spawn ‘til you die.” These four words, printed on the cotton of countless Ray Troll shirts and gracing the enamel of just as many...

Juneau for Democracy, a local organization formed in January, says its intention is to mobilize Alaskans to protect civil rights through...

Members of the Juneau Off-Road Association have been volunteering their weekends this summer to construct the capital city’s first...

A local election shake-up continues as longtime Juneau school board member Emil Mackey says he has decided not to run for reelection...