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  • AI Tries To Write The News: Rap star Post Malone helps set up HESCO barriers and other ‘sightings’

    Media in Alaska and beyond runs wild with reports and fake images of performer doing many improbable AI-generated images of rap star Post Malone at Juneau’s newly extended wall of HESCO barriers, an unnamed glacier That led to, among other things, a TMZ headline in all-caps declaring "POST MALONE TAKES ON THE LAST traveled quickly in the small town of Fairbanks (Alaska's second-largest city)...and citizens have started flooding But that isn’t keeping a few people from taking them seriously, or least questioning if what they’re

  • Takeaways from the latest climate summit and what it means for Alaska 

    This is good news and herein Alaska can make a difference. As I’ve written before, Alaska has plenty of methane to make a difference. Researcher for the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, Qwen Holdmann, wrote an informative opinion piece making Holdmann, Alaska’s wealth of volcanic rocks and glacial silt makes Alaska uniquely positioned to explore

  • State seeks to expand logging in Haines State Forest, some question economics

    That encompasses tracts of forest around the Takhin River and south toward the Davidson Glacier.  Also opened up for timber management would be recreation land around Chilkoot Lake. The state’s five-year plan estimates 13.4 miles of new road would have to be built east of Chilkat Lake That takes financial firepower beyond what currently exists in the valley. The high costs raise the required payoff, in terms of timber value, to make new roads worthwhile for

  • Alaska House advances Juneau lawmaker’s bill intended to boost workforce housing

    Andi Story, D-Juneau, speaks Wednesday, May 8, 2024, on the floor of the Alaska House of Representatives Big Lake Republican Rep.

  • Alaska Youth Stewards build camaraderie at all-crew training

    an all-crew training, this time in Glacier Bay. Youth learned about working in archaeology, built an accessible trail through the Glacier Bay campground “It’s kind of like being giant dentists I think,” Josh joked.  (Photo courtesy of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska) In the Glacier “In Kake we have a bunch of different trails, and the youth are responsible for taking care of those

  • Candidate profile: David Morris, Juneau Assembly District 2 challenger

    People aren't going to like that, but that's OK." The people spoke very strongly at keeping the mill rate at (nine), and no tax on food and fuel." Q: What are your thoughts on who should pay the city’s share for a long-term solution for glacial flooding A: "A bond initiative that would be for everybody in the city because it's not just a flood zone problem that monster that takes up half the city.

  • Police blotter for Feb. 15

    incidents can be reported anonymously at juneaucrimeline.com Conditions Violation At 6:50 p.m. on Sunday, Jake Shoplifting At 2:53 p.m. on Sunday, a 31-year-old female reported shoplifting at a business on Glacier Traffic Stop At 9:21 p.m. on Sunday, Caden Nease, 19, was cited and released on Glacier Highway for improper

  • Haines voters also considering seasonal sales tax

    owner of Moose Horn Laundry in Haines moved to the Chilkat Valley from Skagway where she managed the Glacial “It’s funny because on March 31 the locals all like to go to the grocery store and do their last big tour operators – may have to charge higher prices, making them less competitive. “Every time we take a crack at it, we throw something together at the last minute and hope that it’s This current one, I feel like we’ve worked really hard on it, and we tried to make sure that the impacts

  • Grants to boost local emergency alert systems in question as public media agency closes

    In this photo, flood waters left debris including vehicles and equipment scattered in Louise Hays Park directly to state and tribal governments that can then award funding to public broadcasting stations that make Broadcasting, which received nearly $2 million to “install transmitters and antennas for KLTL-TV in Lake

  • Alaska Science Forum: If a mountain fell in the wilderness…

    Calvey and her two friends — on a summer-long paddling trip from Washington state to Glacier Bay in Alaska sunglasses (among other things) — they had plenty of fresh water, warm clothes for all, four days of food A landslide in Southeast Alaska spilled into Tracy Arm and onto South Sawyer Glacier on Aug. 10. About the same time the kayakers’ campsite was flooded, Christine Smith was cooking food for guests 30 mentor of mine told me once, ‘When nature tells you it’s time to stop, it’s time to stop.’” • Since the late

  • Police blotter for Feb. 11

    Wednesday, the Juneau Police Department began an investigation into a report of unlawful conduct on Glacier At 11:46 p.m. on Wednesday, Jake Williams, 34, was arrested on Great Western Street for violating a domestic

  • On The Trails: A rescue; an odd association; bird flocks

    While on a kayak-camping trip in the Beardslee Islands in Glacier Bay, a friend found a rather unusual If the sponge on the crab’s carapace becomes really big, it makes it impossible for the crab to fit into On a recent stroll in the Dredge Lakes area, a friend and I came across a great fluttering in the alder Also, sometimes the foraging of one species disturbs the prey, making it available to others.

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