Southeast

The Supreme Court will rule on Dunleavy's agriculture department after he's gone

The Supreme Court will decide after the election whether Dunleavy could create an agriculture department by order. He'll be gone by the time it matters.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Juneau moves to ban electric motorcycles on nearly all public property

Juneau would ban electric motorcycles on nearly all public property, with exemptions for Montana Creek Trail and the off-road vehicle park.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

MEA surveys members on potential data center development

MEA is polling members about data centers while the state weighs handing 20,000 acres in its territory to AIDEA for a plan that lists data centers.

by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago2 min read

A Spokane man gets 25 years for mailing fentanyl that killed two men

A Spokane man was sentenced to 25 years for mailing about 150 fentanyl pills to Skagway, a shipment that killed two men within about a day.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Juneau's JAMHI clinic gets $938,000 in congressionally directed funds to replace failing HVAC

Juneau has no road out. The clinic holding its primary care and behavioral health is getting federal money for failing HVAC and fire suppression.

by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago2 min read

Alaska Native tribes begin five-year youth suicide prevention programs

Ten Alaska Native tribes and health organizations begin five-year youth suicide prevention programs next week, sharing about $4.1 million in federal money.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

FAA awards Sitka $2 million for seaplane base land and final design

Sitka has federal money to buy land and finish designs for a new floatplane base. The $34 million to actually build it hasn't turned up yet.

by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min read

Ketchikan Gateway Borough gets $347,000 to replace a South Tongass ambulance

South Tongass lost both its ambulances when the station burned in 2024. It has been driving an 18-year-old hand-me-down from Valdez ever since.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

The line that powers Petersburg would leave federal license oversight

Petersburg gets its power over an 80-mile line from Tyee Lake. The agency running it wants that line out of its federal license, the second this year.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Juneau committee moves board recruitment plan out of resolution and into a letter

Juneau had 33 vacancies across its city boards. The plan to fill them was moved out of the resolution and into an attachment to a cover letter.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Flags fly at half-staff Tuesday for former Ketchikan Rep. Cheri Davis

Flags fly at half-staff Tuesday for Cheri Davis, who spent a decade on the Ketchikan School Board before she represented the town in Juneau.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Sitka would make second houses easier to build in some zones and ban them in others

Sitka wants second small houses easier to build in some neighborhoods and off limits in others. Shotgun Alley asked for one and was told to wait.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min read

Juneau sets aside $4 million against a $12.9 million flood barrier loan

Juneau set aside $4 million Monday toward a $12.9 million state loan for HESCO flood barriers along the Mendenhall River, covering less than a third of the debt.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readFrom Sep 14

Past three miles, Sitka residents fish under nonresident rules

Cross three miles off Sitka and residents fish under nonresident rules, so a lingcod that's legal inshore can end your day in federal water.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 18

Juneau's glacial flood bond vote would not reach voters until October 2027

Juneau can't vote on borrowing for permanent flood protection until October 2027, because the Army Corps won't have a cost estimate until then.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Follows: Juneau's flood protection should be everyone's bill, three members say

The state is still taking comments on a school rule it dropped last year

Alaska's education department is still taking comments on a rule its board killed 11 months ago. The follow-up the board asked for is harder to find.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Yakutat wind advisory expires; top gust 37 mph

Yakutat braced for gusts of 60 mph this weekend. The airport topped out at 37. Nobody in town is complaining that the forecast turned out wrong.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

FAA seeks permit for weather station at Coffman Cove seaplane base

The FAA is seeking a 20-year state permit for a weather observation system at Coffman Cove. Comments close Oct. 2.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Bert Adams takes over as Sitka Tribe of Alaska general manager

Bert Adams started as general manager of Sitka Tribe of Alaska on Aug. 17, ending nine months without a permanent leader after the previous manager resigned in November 2025.

by Alaska News1mo ago1 min readFrom Aug 17

Sitka school policy committee rejects copying Ketchikan's student drug-testing rule

Sitka turned down copying Ketchikan's student drug testing rules. One of its two new drafts could extend testing past sports to band, drama and debate.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 10

Flood watch covers Skagway, Haines and Klukwan through Sunday night

Skagway and Haines face heavy rain Saturday night into Sunday, landing on rivers already swollen by fast glacier melt. Flooding is possible.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Sitka Assembly favors a half-point summer sales tax for child care, with no vote taken

Sitka's Assembly favored a half-point summer sales tax for child care on Sept. 8.. Staff estimate it would raise about $1.19 million a year against a $1 million package.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 8

ADF&G cuts Southeast fall Dungeness crab season to 30 days

Southeast's Dungeness fleet gets 30 fall days instead of 60, because a harvest projection built from one week of June fishing came in short.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Aug 7

Federal notices clear 11 Sitka ancestors for return

Two federal notices make at least 11 ancestors and 11 funerary objects eligible for return to the Sitka Tribe of Alaska.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 9

Juneau cut its museum hours by two-thirds and lost half its visitors

Juneau cut its city museum from 56 hours a week down to 22. Visitors and sales fell by about half, which is roughly what you would expect.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Yakutat gillnetters must donate Chinook found dead in Situk nets

Yakutat set gillnetters open Sunday. Any king that dies in the net gets its dorsal fin cut off and handed to somebody in town who needs it.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Southeast trollers got ten more days, and a smaller fleet to fish them with

Southeast trollers got ten more days for coho. There is a smaller fleet to fish them, and the harvest is still headed below the record lows.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Trollers get Neets Bay back through the middle of October

Neets Bay is open to trollers again through Oct. 10, six weeks after it closed so the hatchery association could take its cost recovery chum.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Aug 21

Juneau invented cruise ship shore power. Doing it again costs $111.5 million

Plugging Juneau's cruise berths into the grid now runs $111.5 million, up from $24.9 million. The city has spare hydropower about a quarter of the time.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Sitka's savings for future repairs has shrunk three years running

Sitka's yearly set-aside for future infrastructure repairs keeps shrinking: $4 million, then $3.2 million, and $3 million proposed for Tuesday.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Most of Sitka's administrator search has happened in executive session

Sitka's sole finalist for city administrator dropped out in July. The Assembly decides Tuesday on a different candidate, possibly in closed session.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Follows: Sitka Assembly to interview municipal administrator applicant Gerrie Cotter on Sept. 10

Sitka has been renting dumpsters without a rate in code

Sitka has been running roll-off dumpster service with no rate in city code. The Assembly is fixing that Tuesday, at $3,300 a month per container.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Draft Southeast plan omits Juneau-Skagway road, comment closes Oct. 19

The road from Juneau to Skagway has been argued about for twenty years. The state's new plan for Southeast does not mention it even one time.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min read

Juneau's flood protection should be everyone's bill, three members say

Juneau's flood protection should be paid for by everyone, not just the people on the river, three Assembly members say. The bond vote slipped to 2027.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Juneau's flood fix could top $600 million, and the city has $11 million

Juneau needs more than $600 million to hold back the glacial flood. It has $11 million so far, and no plan for where its share comes from.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readFrom Aug 31

Juneau staff recommend banning electric dirt bikes on all public property

Juneau staff recommend banning electric dirt bikes from all public property, citing safety concerns and comparing high-powered models to unlicensed motorcycles.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Juneau committee sends an unrequested $6 million state grant to the downtown Seawalk

Juneau got $6 million from the state it never asked for and is putting it toward the downtown Seawalk, enough to build the first phase without borrowing.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readFrom Aug 31

Juneau committee to weigh 10% tax on rental cars staged near cruise docks

Juneau is weighing a 10% excise tax on rental cars picked up near the cruise docks, which would push the total on some rentals to 24 percent.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Craig's council asked Washington to keep the Tongass roadless rule

A former Craig timber cutter says four decades of logging left less deer food on the forest floor, not more. His council agreed with him, 4-1.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Heavy rain and near-60 mph gusts hit Southeast Alaska this weekend

A Pacific storm hits Southeast Alaska this weekend with heavy rain and gusts near 60 mph, raising streams fast but not, forecasters say, to flood.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read