A bush plane, at left, delivered state workers and equipment to Two Lakes, inside Lake Clark National State rafts sit parked on the bank of the Necons River near its outlet from Two Lakes within Lake Clark The glacial bureaucratic processes leave maps of Alaska rife with areas of underwater land where the in the Lake Clark area, west of Anchorage. suggested that we should gather ark-building material — ”pitch and gopher wood” — for the impending flood

The challenger says she’s seen the Alaska Legislature take actions such as increasing education funding "I haven't heard an argument yet that makes sense to me in terms of ferry users," she said. Kreitzer said "I think the mining industry has a lot to offer" in helping develop a long-term solution for glacial flooding in the Mendenhall Valley. She said a lake tap appears to be the best approach, and a drill-and-blast drainage tunnel proposal by

Hormuz disrupted not only supplies of crude and refined fuel but also the supply chains for fertilizer, food Fuel accounts for roughly 15% to 30% of the total cost of food, according to the Independent Grocers But it can take months for an energy shock like the one caused by the Iran war to wind through the food “We’re likely still looking at inflationary pressure on food in the coming months,” Ortega said. — and consequently, food prices and the availability of food — for months to come.

"All the tribes, the processed foods are literally killing them, part of a genocide that is centuries "It may be one of the worst parts of that genocide in terms of the impact of processed foods on Native And we want to move the impediments to food sovereignty, to subsistence of traditional foods we wanted cancelled because the mRNA vaccines “fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like "Before I could even, like, ask the question Secretary Kennedy spent 25 minutes telling me of all the

However, the rating omits consideration of record glacial flooding the past three years that has damaged long-term risk indices for events such as earthquakes, hail, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and riverine flooding underlying datasets extend through 2021 for the first five categories and through 2019 for riverine flooding "Importantly, glacial flooding is not included in these datasets and therefore was not factored into This omission may help explain the apparent discrepancy between the ranking and the community's recent flood

Visitors crowd the streets downtown to watch procession, but for participants it’s a commemoration honoring their people and heritage Native drummers lead one of the groups participating in a parade through downtown Juneau as part of the final day of Celebration on Saturday, June 6, 2026. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Independent) By Mark Sabbatini Juneau Independent Hallie Hanlon says it’s been a decade since she’s been at Celebration due to serving in the U.S. Air Force. But on Saturday, with her insignia pinned to Tlingit regalia, she returned to join other service members at the front of a parade through downtown Juneau that’s part of the traditional final-day activities. She and hundreds of other parade participants — mostly in large dance groups, but also a few lone individuals — made a winding circuit in occasional light rain through the streets from Ferry Way to Cenntennial Hall in a procession that lasted about an hour. A dense crowd of spectators along the streets included a mix of others attending Celebration, local residents and tourists in town for the day. "It’s really for us because we have to show who we are," Hanlon said when asked who the parade is for. "All these tourists that are here, they don’t come to Centennial Hall, they don’t come to (Elizabeth Peratrovich) Hall. So we get to walk through our land and show people who've never been here, who've never heard of us, that we exist and that we're still here." Hallie Hanlon, carrying the Alaska state flag, marches with other Alaska Natives military service members at the front of a parade through downtown Juneau as part of the final day of Celebration on Saturday, June 6, 2026. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Independent) Carrying the Alaska flag in the parade, she wore a decorative bib gifted by her mother, Alberta Hanlon, atop an Air Force military jacket custom beaded by her cousin, Shaadootlaa Iyall. Hanlon, now living in Nebraska due to her service duties, said she returns to Southeast a few times a year to visit her father, but the timing for Celebration hasn’t worked out until this year. "It seems bigger," she said, comparing to the last time she participated. Beyond that it's the same since "it’s still just all of our people getting together to celebrate who we are." Other than the military service members at the front of the parade, there were no rules or registration for the other participants who lined up in the order they or their groups joined the cluster on the block-long Ferry Way. When the procession began at 10 a.m. with a quick word from a Sealaska Heritage Institute official overseeing the event there were no leadoff police vehicles sounding sirens — or any vehicles at all in the lineup. But the sounds of singing and drums were abundant as the dance groups performed many of the songs featured during appearances at various Celebration venues since the gathering began Wednesday. Barbara and Henry Jasny watch a Native dance group pass by during a parade through downtown Juneau as part of the final day of Celebration on Saturday, June 6, 2026. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Independent) Watching the parade from a sidewalk bench across from City Hall were Barbara and Henry Jasny, who said they made their first trip to Alaska from their home in Falls Church, Virginia, so they could be at the various events during Celebration. "We fell in love with it on YouTube," Henry Jasny explained. "She decided she wanted to come to Alaska and we were looking for what was going on, and Celebration was happening this year, and it beats being on a ship all week." Barbara Jasny said among the moments she wanted to experience most were the arrival of canoes from other parts of Southeast Alaska on Tuesday and a dedication ceremony for a new totem pole at Southeast Alaska Native Veterans Memorial Park on Wednesday. But she also expressed thoughts similar to Hanlon’s about who the high-spirit events are meant for. "This is not for the tourists, it’s for the people who all live here," she said. "And that it’s tradition and that made it fascinating." • Contact Mark Sabbatini at editor@juneauindependent.com or (907) 957-2306. More photos from the 2026 Celebration parade. (All photos by Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Independent)

She volunteered at the food pantry and free student clothing store YDHS graduate Ira Anstine helped set “I help with a lot around the school and I really just liked the idea of us having a food pantry,” she She said the pantry is also stocked with canned food, cereal, milk and “whatever someone may need.” Galvin said Yaaḵoosgé has more at-need students than JDHS, and along with the clothing and food pantry “I liked it,” she said.

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“At first, I was like, ‘Oh, we're trying to keep him away from large groups,’” she said. Leticia McRae Leticia McRae next to her “Community Clean Up In Progress” truck during a Dredge Lake cleanup McRae added she can no longer load her truck and take it to the dump. p.m. at Sandy Beach, with food and drinks provided. The Olde Time Firemen’s Hose Race will take place in front of the fire hall at 3:30 p.m.

“This legislation takes a preventative, fiscally responsible approach to an issue that affects communities But despite efforts like that, she and representatives of other nonprofits said, resources to support There are organizations that try to accomplish that but it takes a lot of work. But red foxes, which are bigger, bolder and more likely to lurk around communities, are expanding into Red foxes are implicated in most of the known rabies cases in what has been a significant late-winter

Mudpuddle route from the University of Alaska Southeast’s Egan Library down the path, past the Auke Lake boat ramp, along Glacier Highway to Karl Reishus Boulevard, and to the gravel equestrian trail that Take a left onto Back Loop road and a left at Goat Hill Road, and around the Auke Lake Trail back to the separated path at the Auke Lake boat ramp and up to the UAS library. Leaving the Lena Beach picnic area, runners enter onto Glacier Highway.

Supreme Court is likely to weigh in on a Trump administration policy that allows detention without bond Supreme Court is likely to decide the matter. Conflicting appeals rulings like these, known as “circuit splits,” generally lead to a Supreme Court The policy has also flooded federal courts with petitions for release by people denied bond under the 5.5 million could have entered the country illegally, making them subject to the detention policy.