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  • Mayor seeks to demote Eaglecrest’s board to ‘advisory’ role in wake of resignations of top leaders

    agreement among some city leaders a change in the ski area’s management authority was needed in the wake

  • Aylward crowned Juneau Marathon men’s champ, Gress takes women’s title 

    So yeah, it's awesome to be able to, like, have this race atmosphere before like the cross-country season Last year I came like 30 seconds short. This year I came a minute short. those 20-mile runs has been fantastic…We did a couple runs on the course and on the way back seeing the glacier , ‘Hey, let’s do a half-marathon’ and I was like, ‘Yeah let’s do it.’ I turned 40 last week and felt like that was a good time to start.

  • A historic storm in Juneau: 10 sunken boats and what it takes to re-float them

    A storm that wrapped up the new year dumped roughly 50 inches of snow over four days, breaking a four-day snowfall record that had stood since 1964. It also pushed Juneau past its snowiest December on record. Among the many impacts of the storm, 10 boats sank in harbors across the city, weighed down by snow loads. Juneau Docks and Harbors deployed extra deckhands to shovel boats out before they went under…( Read fulll story )

  • Cost of City Hall move to Burns building now $18M instead of $14M for limited remodel

    The Assembly in September authorized the negotiation and purchase of two floors of the Burns Building project is seeking the remaining funds from federal and other sources, with construction of the facility likely passenger fee funds to pay for additional HESCO barriers to safeguard Mendenhall Valley homes from glacial floods. • $1 million from the North State Office Building Parking Garage. However, she said engineering studies show the project will need significant retrofitting that will make

  • State museum makes Family Fun Fair part of 125th birthday celebration

    Cake, salmon bones, porcupine quills and rubber replicas of animal droppings give residents and visitors Festivities included educational, art and science activities for all ages in the main floor atrium which All the celebratory cake slices had been enjoyed within an hour of the party opening at the Father Andrew At a table for bracelet making, museum conservator Ellen Carrlee instructed adults and youth on how to Forest Service’s Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center, artist and historical writer.

  • Court keeps international teacher visa fees affordable for Alaska districts, but it may be too late

    Smith Alaska Beacon Alaska school districts that have grown to rely on international teacher hires are likely “The chance of taking a risk of losing those fees, if they could submit now, is just a risk. And I think our districts are largely risk averse because they don’t have those kinds of funds to take

  • Juneau’s controversial landslide maps make a comeback in latest draft risk assessment

    Juneau officials are updating the local hazard mitigation plan to make the city eligible for federal

  • Federal government appeals decision that blocked oil drilling in Alaska caribou protection area

    The herd, which spends the entire year on the North Slope, uses land adjacent to Teshekpuk Lake. that blocked oil and gas lease sales in part of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska near Teshekpuk Lake More than 1 million acres near the lake had been protected under a conservation agreement with a Native

  • Judge reinstates conservation agreement in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve

    agreement, with implications for a pending oil and gas lease sale A female caribou runs near Teshekpuk Lake The Teshekpuk Caribou Herd gives birth to its calves in the land around the vast lake, the largest on affecting a pending oil and gas lease sale that was structured to include territory by and in the lake gave Nuiqsut residents some control over oil development in about a million acres in the Teshekpuk Lake Teshekpuk Lake, the biggest lake on the North Slope, and the surrounding lands support a caribou herd

  • One dead after local guides take weekend Canada river trip

    But even in that high-water environment, Hawks said there are companies like Tatshenshini Expediting running commercial tours and taking inexperienced clients down the river. The whole trip takes about three hours on the river, Lyman said. They take out at Dalton Post. It just keeps going like one long, constant rapid.”

  • Appeals court says Alaska has the right to make ConocoPhillips oil well data public

    Late-afternoon sunlight bathes the ConocoPhillips building in downtown Anchorage on March 10, 2026. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) By Yereth Rosen Alaska Beacon The state of Alaska has the right to make State law provides for a 24-month period of confidentiality, after which the AOGCC is to make the data

  • Limited hours, other restrictions make year-round warming shelter unappealing, winter campers say

    But while circumstances weren’t ideal, they said they prefer it to making the long trip to Thane to stay within the past month, since it is now closed off due to the installation of HESCO barriers as part of a flood He said the shelter offers some appealing features including food and indoor restrooms installed at the (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Independent) But making long shuttle trips there from the Glory Hall — or other the Glory Hall during the day, but agrees with some others that extending the shelter’s hours would make

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