Willson In late summer we usually notice dark "spurs" sticking out of beach rye inflorescences. There they germinate, making a soft white mass that drips "honeydew" containing another generation of toxins can cause convulsions, hallucinations, seizures, and sometimes death, as well as constricting blood We were searching for a special fungus that likes to grow on bear scat. That will take some DNA analysis. • Mary F. Willson is a retired professor of ecology.

It takes three-quarters of the House and three-quarters of the Senate — 30 Representatives and 15 senators losing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of federally funded construction projects scheduled to take proposed amendment after encountering opposition, saying he was satisfied with the smaller bill on the floor We may not need to take that full amount out of savings when we have money coming in,” she said, referring

Siblings would continue to be legally recognized, including for siblings by blood, marriage or adoption “It’s just more scary, like knowing that they’re going to be going through different situations, different foster homes and whatnot, different foster parents, like you don’t know who they’re with and what these Alaska , the Office of Children’s Services, which runs the state’s foster care system, is required to “make “But I do want to still be their sister, and not be like a stranger to them,” she added.

Dinner time can now return to normal, cleat marks once removed from house floors will not reappear for Days of long sunshine are uncommon in this town on Alaska’s coastline, but like youth everywhere, summer My first time in cleats at age 11 resulted in a misjudgment of speed on a polished linoleum kitchen floor But since most of the players were righties, many of the delayed swings would strike the iron, mesh-like

The Juneau Assembly, meeting as the Finance Committee on Wednesday night, unanimously approved not making projected to lose about $12 million in revenue a year due to voters approving a ballot initiative exempting food "(That may) make it smoother and easier when we come into our FY27 deliberations," he said, "There's A motion by Mayor Beth Weldon not to make any broad service reductions was unanimously approved with

benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, reaching the new range from 3.75% to 4% and making “Part of the independence of the Federal Reserve is we stay in our lane,” Warsh said. hike comes less than a week after the government’s latest consumer price index revealed the cost of food

It also waives late fees for state-administered loan and payment programs.” donations have come pouring in for the families and communities devastated by ex-Typhoon Halong, including food

I wonder why the Division of Elections chose to take this action just weeks before the August 2026 primary I wonder what additional actions they will take leading up to the general elections. They are not going to stop unless we take action and insist on legality and accountability. The action for all of us to take right now is to vote early and vote in person in the Alaska primary day in Juneau, go to the Mendenhall Mall annex or to the State Office Building atrium on the eighth floor

this, the mixed-seed feeder hanging over my pond is thronged with busy chestnut-backed chickadees, taking Upon occasion, they make way for those pushy blue gluttons called jays. Sometimes a nuthatch takes advantage of a brief lull in the chickadee flurry. To some extent, thievery can be reduced making dummy hoards…appearing to stash a seed but flitting off And the oils probably soak into the wood and maybe the bark, reducing the food value of the stored sample

It would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history and would likely face legal challenges Other types of immigrant visas, like those for workers who have an employer sponsoring them, are not It sounded like it would be short, just to make time for training, but if it does last longer, I imagine Security, revived a rule that could deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits such as food Asylum claims can take years to decide.

“[They said] it sounded like a shotgun went off. There, Hallmark examined the bird and decided it was likely a “she” and about a year old. “Most likely this is a female. But, staff agreed that Moose is likely female.  Foundation say they have internal policies to release the rehabilitated birds during the spring when the food

At first glance, that makes Juneau appear to be “low tax.” comparison, and it underscores the importance of acknowledging Juneau’s unique revenue structure before making on fixed incomes, these aren't abstract policy debates — they’re daily decisions between paying for food