Sabbatini Juneau Independent Jossie Lukacik, deemed the best Christmas cookie baker in the U.S. by the Food sounds crazy — but like ‘maybe we should move to Alaska.’ classes, cookies, cakes, pretty much everything under the sun," she said. Lukacik will arrive with serious acclaim since she is the reigning champion of the Food Network’s "Christmas The list of participants includes the usual variety of art, crafts, clothing, calendar, food, household

I feel like our founding fathers would be kind of disappointed with how it is now.” “I feel like they would actually roll out of their graves," she said. He’d like to see term limits on politicians and more working-class people serving. Quintin Sharpe, 28, lives in a resort town on Lake Geneva in Wisconsin. He and his wife will celebrate the country's 250th anniversary watching the fireworks over the lake.

millions in budget shortfalls Students perform during a final spring concert on May 13, 2026, at Meadow Lakes You know, what does education look like, and what does it look like in serving a community? The school board closed Meadow Lakes and Larson elementary schools in Wasilla and Glacier View School “They were starting to make friends at River City, and so they were really sad, like ‘I’ve got to start The closures were at Fire Lake, Lake Otis and Campbell STEM elementary schools.

“With this beautiful building we want to make sure that folks feel like it is their state libraries, Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s wildlife technician Barb Lake, partnering with NOAA’s Auke Bay Lab Little squares of frosted cake disappeared quickly. (Photo cake and five women) Smith’s organization has 300 members statewide. The 1967 centennial museum that was removed to make room for the 2016 museum building.

As a flood watch looms in this week's forecast, equipment operators remind drivers and pedestrians to “You go do your whole route, and then you come back and there's like a foot of snow there again, or like The National Weather Service issued a flood watch starting Friday morning through Saturday evening for Southcoast region, said the department will be focusing on drainage systems to reduce the risk of localized flooding continue to improve, our focus is shifting to clearing drainage systems to reduce the risk of localized flooding

Metlakatla also advances to 2A semifinals, 1A Hoonah and Kake still alive Metlakatla senior Daycee King “So as long as they step up there confidently, tell themselves they can make it, then we’ll take it.” And so some healing gets to take place through this. Kake junior Madison Padgett (10) shoots over Akiak sophomore Rikki Lake (21) during the Thunderbirds' (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Independent) 1A Girls - KAKE 38, AKIAK 25 The Kake Thunderbirds rallied from a

The Juneau Independent hosts a first anniversary picnic at Twin Lakes on Saturday, June 20, 2026. sizable response is part of an immense gratitude I cannot adequately express with mere words in a column like Staff and board members have paid for many things out of their own pockets — including the food and other But we are taking other steps and seeking other help as well. • We’re applying for numerous grants and They likely will appear in a designated section on the homepage (such as after the sections that contain

Students swing on a playground at Meadow Lakes Head Start in Wasilla, Alaska.

Alyse Galvin, I-Anchorage, speaks on the House floor on Apr. 13, 2026. uncertainty at the exact moment Alaska needs more energy development,” Kopp said on Monday on the House floor On Monday, Big Lake Republican Rep. to be excused from the vote citing a conflict of interest, but there was an objection on the House floor “And it’s now time for us to decide, are we willing to take some difficult votes and take some difficult

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Ximena Lopez at a December protest against arrests of immigrants at green card appointments in Salt Lake “Nonimmigrants, like students, temporary workers, or people on tourist visas, come to the U.S. for a

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