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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 AlaskaNews1w 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 AlaskaNews1w 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 AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
A wind advisory covers Ketchikan and Metlakatla until 2 pm Tuesday
Ketchikan and Metlakatla are getting gusts of up to 40 mph through Tuesday afternoon, and the Alaska Range could see 70 mph by Friday morning.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d 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 AlaskaNews1w ago3 min read
The West Coast's halibut fleet needed six openings to near its small quota
The West Coast's commercial halibut season is over after six openings to catch a small quota — from the same stock Alaska fishes, near 1970s lows.
by Bill AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
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 AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago1 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 AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago2 min read
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 AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Juneau weighs a $27 million View Drive flood buyout with the homeowner share still unpriced
Sixteen of 18 View Drive homeowners are moving toward a federal flood buyout, but Juneau hasn't decided who carries the risk of collecting their share.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Southeast's Dungeness fleet gets a 30-day fall season after a short summer
Southeast's Dungeness crabbers get 30 days this fall after an early summer closure, and Wrangell has asked the state to seek a federal fishery disaster.
by Alaska News1w ago1 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 AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
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 AlaskaNews1w 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 Newsadded 1w ago1 min read
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 AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago1 min read
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 AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Former Ketchikan church elder pleads guilty in child exploitation case
Dwight Chris John pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material. He faces 10 to 15 years in prison at a Dec. 16 sentencing.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 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 AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago1 min read
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 AlaskaNewsadded 1w 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 AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
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 AlaskaNews1w 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 AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago1 min read
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 AlaskaNews1w ago2 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 AlaskaNews1w 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 AlaskaNews1w ago1 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 AlaskaNews1w 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 AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Sitka would make backyard apartments easier to build, in fewer places
Sitka wants more backyard apartments and fewer places to put them. The ordinance cuts requirements from 14 to eight and bars them from R-2 lots.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
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 AlaskaNews1w ago1 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 AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
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 AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
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 AlaskaNews1w 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 AlaskaNewsadded 1w 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 AlaskaNewsadded 1w 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 AlaskaNews1w 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 AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
A Southeast power agency seeks to free a line from federal terms
SEAPA wants to pull a 30-mile transmission line out of its Swan Lake hydro license before a 40-year relicensing, keeping the line but shedding the terms.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Juneau's hatchery waters reopen six weeks ahead of schedule
Fishing reopens near Juneau's Macaulay hatchery six weeks early, six coho a day. The closure traced back to fish lost in a landslide in 2020.
by Bill AlaskaNews1w 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 AlaskaNews1w ago3 min read
Unalaska student wins national naval history award for Angoon bombardment project
Unalaska student River Zaochney won a national Naval History Award for a project on the 1882 Navy bombardment of Angoon, a Tlingit village the Navy formally apologized for in 2024.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
