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  • Kroschel, staff, say close to 20 animals missing after raid on wildlife center

    the dozens of animals caught in the middle of a years-long dispute over the conditions at a Mosquito Lake enforcement are serving a search warrant while Fish and Game staff seize animals housed in the Mosquito Lake Kroschel calls his moose Duck Moses over for a quick snack on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, in Mosquito Lake of people near her enclosure at Steve Kroschel’s wildlife facility on August 27, 2024, in Mosquito Lake Benassi said he first started working with Kroschel at the Mosquito Lake facility in 2004. 

  • Two lawsuits challenge Trump administration’s plans for oil drilling in Alaska petroleum reserve

    It isn’t yet clear whether the lawsuits will deter a planned oil and gas lease sale scheduled to take again this year, the federal government attempted to lease parts of the reserve that are near Teshekpuk Lake The lake is the largest on the North Slope and is considered important habitat for caribou and migrating If a lease sale takes place in the reserve, exploratory drilling would likely take years, and production would take years more. 

  • Film festival brings stories from Southeast to the big screen

    The shorts shown Tuesday night featured stories from Kake, Angoon, Juneau, Wrangell, and Yakutat. (Ellie Ruel / Juneau Independent) “My prompt was to make a video about myself. So I made it about the lake I love, the river I love and how I'm connected to it and how the people that Kake, and said his next project will explore a day in the life of a tour guide. “I want them to take my job. That's the whole point.

  • Tribes hit hard by wildfires face health effects, cultural losses

    Power outages left families without food they’ve hunted or gathered and frozen. “What typically used to be like a two-month fire season for us when I first started fighting fire about this year detected the first salmon hatch in over a century in the tributaries of the Upper Klamath Lake Our water quality in our lake and rivers isn’t very good,” he said. “Every time your foot hits the floor’s a prayer,” she said.

  • ‘Snow-vid’ storms that isolated Juneauites this winter have plenty of historical company

    feet of snow needed to be shoveled from roofs, driveways blocked by snowplow-created berms cleared and flooded He added, “Packed ice and snow remained until late May or early June." (City and Borough of Juneau photo) While the threat of avalanches still exists, officials are taking The multi-agency unified command organization established in summer 2025 for the Mendenhall Glacier outburst flood emergency reconvened for the snow emergency in 2026.

  • Andi Story says talk about Alaska’s resource development needs to include workers, students

    Andi Story, D-Juneau, listens to a closing floor speech shortly before the adjournment of this year’s If you can make a structural change like offering defined benefits and keeping your teachers here you "(Workers) might shop here and there, and buy a home and stuff like that," she said. Another need in her district is mitigating annual glacial flooding of the Mendenhall Valley. disaster assistance, so we can have some state money to help out with things like that.

  • Letter: Voting by mail

    CBJ just wants timely payments to help residents avoid the immediate 5% late fees. Many other municipalities (Denver, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, to name a few) have instituted

  • July 4 parade set to take flight with ‘Juneau’s Winged Heroes’; Douglas parade features disc golf club

    lived in Juneau for decades are familiar with, featuring dozens of floats, bands and other participants making Juneau’s other Fourth of July traditions will also take place largely as they have in years past. • 3:30 p.m.: Make & Break Fireman's Hose Race, Douglas Fire Hall. • 3:30-9 p.m.: Bands on the Beach

  • Fight over possible gold mine looms inside one of Alaska’s national parks

    The Johnson Tract is a private parcel with a worker camp and airstrip, surrounded by the vast Lake Clark Known as the Johnson Tract, the property is fully surrounded by the vast Lake Clark National Park—millions Mount Iliamna, a volcano in Lake Clark National Park, rises above Tuxedni Bay and a commercial fish camp A fishing tender anchored in Tuxedni Channel, with Lake Clark National Park in the background. The cabin is about a hundred feet back from the water and set fully within Lake Clark National Park.

  • Juneau students have missed four days this school year due to snow. So far, they won’t have to make them up.

    How many snow days is too many before Juneau’s school year extends into the summer? The Juneau School District hasn’t reached that point, according to Chief of Staff Kristin Bartlett. That’s partially because the district was able to get some of the lost days waived by the state, due to extraordinary weather. It also has four extra days built into its calendar…( Read full story )

  • Brooks takes solid lead over Bryson; lower property tax cap ahead 51%-49% in updated election results

    Jeremy Johnson has 19.62% and write-in incumbent Deedie Sorensen 11.81% A sales tax exemption on food

  • Juneau ranks 7th on CNN’s ‘America’s Best Towns to Visit in 2026’

    remote location and a terrain that’s worlds away from a typical American town experience, it feels like article starts by focusing on natural wonders of the area beginning, naturally, with the Mendenhall Glacier In fact, as of just last year, it no longer touches the lake it feeds into." "We weighed the nominees and winnowed them down to 10 by evaluating the finalists’ attractions, food

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