Southeast region news
An ongoing glacial lake outburst flood on the Taku River is affecting the City and Borough of Juneau, with an alert in effect until 11 p.m. AKDT Tuesday. Mariners and anyone near the river corridor should expect rapid water rises and debris in the channel.
by Walter AlaskaNews10h ago2 min readAI
Sitka sockeye limits jump Wednesday as the Redoubt Bay run projects past 40,000 fish, allowing subsistence households 25 fish daily and sport anglers 6 fish.
by Bill AlaskaNews6h ago2 min readAI
Alaska's ethics committee voted to hand off harassment training, saying it's crowded out real ethics instruction. The training continues — just not under them.
by Walter AlaskaNews4d ago2 min readAI
Petersburg Medical Center's board approved FY2027 budgets and a FY2026 amendment as the hospital's cash reserves more than doubled to 133 days on hand.
by Walter AlaskaNews1d ago2 min readAI
Petersburg Medical Center started seeing MRI patients the week of June 25, giving residents local access to imaging for the first time, and is hosting a community open house July 14.
by Walter AlaskaNews1d ago2 min readAIAn ethics panel found probable cause Rep. Sarah Vance used state resources to pressure the Homer News, which then pulled the article and dropped the reporter's byline.
by Walter AlaskaNews4d ago2 min readAI
King crab fishing reopens July 1 for Alaska residents in most of Juneau area, but shrimp stays closed indefinitely in Section 11-A and Tenakee Inlet. • Nonresidents can now take two king salmon per year in Southeast Alaska starting July 1, up from one. • Section 11-A remains off-limits for resident king crab fishing; ADF&G says more details coming later this year.
by Bill AlaskaNews1d ago2 min readAI
Sport anglers returning to Craig or Klawock must keep lingcod, rockfish, and salmon whole until docked so state technicians can sample them for fishery data.
by Bill AlaskaNews1d ago2 min readAI
Sitka Assembly spent a full work session June 16 reviewing child care shortage data, identifying gaps in how the shortage affects families and the local economy but taking no immediate action.
by Walter AlaskaNews1d ago2 min readAI
Alaska's rewritten ethics law took effect June 24 without Dunleavy's signature. Its big change: gift-funded travel now needs a documented purpose, or you repay it.
by Walter AlaskaNews4d ago2 min readAIA legislator and a staffer took a gift-funded Arctic Winter Games trip, then wouldn't explain why — exposing that the ethics committee had no power to make them.
by Walter AlaskaNews4d ago2 min readAI
A Coast Guard rescue helicopter went down on Harbor Mountain above Sitka Monday. The road is closed, and the crew that rescues others needed it
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Five property owners asked Sitka's Planning Commission to rezone six residential lots on Halibut Point Road and Kimsham Street to commercial use.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1d ago2 min readAI
Juneau, the only U.S. capital you can't drive to, just appointed 11 unpaid volunteers to oversee its airport, harbors and ski hill — all without a single objection.
by Walter AlaskaNews4d ago2 min readAI
Alaska Senate refused to back down on HB 381, sending the natural gas pipeline tax bill to a conference committee to resolve how to tax the Alaska LNG Project and fund municipalities and schools.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
The feds want comment on a Douglas Island cruise terminal whose two years of pile driving could "harass" 10 marine mammal species in a humpback feeding ground.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3d ago2 min readAI
All four crew members were rescued after a Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter crashed near Sitka.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
NSRAA closed Southeast Cove and Crawfish Inlet to common-property chum fishing all season, cutting purse seine access at two northern Southeast harvest areas.
by Bill AlaskaNews3d ago2 min readAI
A statewide task force arrested two Sitka men within a day of each other on separate child sexual abuse material charges; both are held without bail and presumed innocent.
by Walter AlaskaNews4d ago2 min readAI
Juneau citizens got a 1% seasonal sales tax to the brink of the ballot. The Assembly has 45 days to pass it or let voters do it.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Long Friday in Juneau: LNG tax bill stuck, second special session called, two vetoes overridden, three failed. Round three starts Saturday.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago3 min readAI
Tlingit beader Renee Culp presents a lecture Tuesday in Juneau on a clan robe depicting an ancestor's battle with a giant octopus, a piece that will become sacred Tlingit property.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2d ago2 min readAI
Energy consultant says property tax costs $600 million yearly, making Alaska LNG unfinanceable.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min readAI
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is happening across North America with viewer-friendly Alaska timing, and Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau have free or easy watch parties through mid-July.
by Cale Green2d ago3 min read
This episode covers the week's major Alaska stories: a gas pipeline tax bill that added oil tax increases, the Point Thomson condensate trade-off for pipeline gas, Mount Edgecumbe enrollment crisis, and McNeil River bear sanctuary access proposals.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min readAI
Senate Finance heard the proposed Alaska LNG tax break would cut state and municipal revenues by $18 billion over 30 years, but the estimate rests on construction costs that may range from $45 billion to $90 billion.
by Bill AlaskaNews4w ago2 min readAI
The building that holds Alaska's museum, library, and archives turns 10 — and Juneau's invited to the free birthday party Saturday, planetarium and cake included.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago1 min readAI
Alaska just doubled out-of-staters' king limit in Southeast even as kings struggle elsewhere — because these are treaty-quota ocean fish, and visitors foot much of the state's fishing-budget bill.
by Bill AlaskaNews5d ago2 min readAI
Sealaska Heritage Institute opened Celebration 2026 in Juneau on Wednesday with traditional canoe arrivals from eight Southeast Alaska communities and speeches centered on cultural resilience and overcoming external and internal challenges.
by Melinda Communities.Newsadded 3w ago2 min readAI
Juneau hosts the world premiere of Ḵutulagaaw, the first Tlingit opera in recorded history, Sept. 11-20, performed entirely in Tlingit language.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2d ago1 min readAI
A Portland hiker who called Alaska State Troopers lost near Ketchikan's Deer Mountain Trail on June 14 was found dead the next morning at the bottom of a cliff during a helicopter search.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min readAI
Alaska Electric Light & Power filed some "housekeeping" for Juneau bills. Boring, sure, but don't confuse it with the separate case where it actually wants more money.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Juneau's harbor board backed a $2.5 million state grant bid for two projects and recommended cutting the uninsured moorage surcharge to $1.00 per linear foot from $1.50.
by Walter AlaskaNews3d ago2 min readAI
Juneau assembly did not move glacially in response to glacier-flood emergency
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Alaska State Troopers arrested Floyd Jackson, 59, of Saxman early Monday on a felony domestic violence assault charge elevated by prior DV convictions within the past decade.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Alaska charter anglers now pay $20 per day to keep halibut in Southeast and Southcentral waters, a federal fee that funds the charter sector's purchase of commercial fishing quota to expand their halibut allocation.
by Alaska News3w ago2 min readAI
Alaska’s LNG project may have just gotten a $24 billion “whoops.” The state has been planning around a $46 billion price tag, but lawmakers were told the real number may be closer to $70 billion — which is less of a budget update and more of a financial jump scare.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
NWS Juneau issued a Special Weather Statement Monday for Haines Borough and Klukwan after the Klehini River hit 86.9 feet and flow rates topped 6,000 KCFS. The statement runs until 8 PM, but high-elevation snowpack will keep flows elevated beyond it.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Juneau's spent 20 years building a waterfront path it still can't finish. Now it wants the stretch to the far cruise dock. Mind the gap.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Coeur Alaska got federal approval to disturb marine mammals during dock repairs at Berners Bay — one of Southeast Alaska's richest bays.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
