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A Craig bakery-cafe wants to pour beer and wine on Friday and Saturday evenings
A Craig bakery-cafe wants to become a fenced beer garden on Friday and Saturday evenings. The drive-through would close while the beer is pouring.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Petersburg hospital rejects shared-kitchen lease for traveling staff
Petersburg Medical Center dropped plans to lease shared housing for traveling staff after two assistants clashed over kitchen supplies, and is now exploring building its own duplexes on tundra land.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Petersburg hospital gets preliminary nod for behavioral health grant
Petersburg Medical Center has preliminary approval for about $400,000 in behavioral health money, but cannot hire or buy anything until the state signs off.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Tlingit opera adds program guide and pre-show storyteller for audiences who do not speak the language
Alaska's first all-Tlingit opera adds program guides and a pre-show storyteller so non-speakers can follow the 1802-1804 Tlingit-Russian War told in the language itself, running Sept. 11-20 in Juneau.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Sealaska Heritage president says Tlingit-Russian War story belongs to all clans, not Kiks.ádi alone
Sealaska Heritage says the Tlingit-Russian War story belongs to all clans and Haidas, not the Kiks.ádi alone, ahead of the opera's September premiere in Tlingit.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Planned Parenthood PAC registers for Fairbanks and Juneau municipal races
Planned Parenthood's Alaska political committee registered to spend in the Fairbanks and Juneau races. It named no candidates and reported no spending.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Ketchikan tribe sues Forest Service over South Revilla logging near Ketchikan
Ketchikan Indian Community sued the Forest Service over logging that would cut 44% of winter deer habitat on Revillagigedo Island, threatening subsistence hunting.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Juneau arts council refuses to sign FY27 grant over how $202,000 can be spent
Juneau Arts and Humanities Council rejected its $202,000 city grant over spending rules, wanting to shift money from pass-through grants to staff and youth programming instead.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Juneau would shift $4.5 million from barrier construction to repairs and debt
Juneau would move $4.5 million out of flood barrier construction into two reserves, one for riverbank repairs and one to start repaying the state loan.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Juneau Crime Count Falls Again as Assaults Rise a Third Year
Reported crime in Juneau fell for a second straight year. Aggravated assault rose for a third, driven by assaults with weapons other than knives.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min read
Sitka's Planning Office will be closed for a full week in September
Sitka Planning Office closes Sept. 8-11 for internal work on code updates and land management, with no walk-in, phone, or email service during those four days.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Undercover investigation found some Craig and Klawock establishmentssold to underage buyers
Every bar and marijuana shop checked around Craig and Klawock sold to underage buyers, and the office running the checks is short three investigators.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Researchers get $812,016 to study Glacier Bay's iceberg seal habitat
Glacier Bay's harbor seals pup on icebergs. The glacier making those icebergs slowed 45 percent, and researchers got $812,016 to study what that means.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago2 min read
First Tlingit opera moves to Thunder Mountain Middle School after lighting failure
A power outage killed the stage lighting at Juneau-Douglas High School, moving the first Tlingit opera in recorded history to a middle school auditorium.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min read
Two of Juneau's most accessible coho streams close to fishing to protect weak runs
Two of Juneau's most accessible coho streams, Montana and Peterson creeks, close to coho fishing Sept. 1 through Dec. 31 to protect weak salmon returns.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Ketchikan's city filing window has closed, and voter registration ends Sept. 6
Ketchikan's candidate filing window closed Monday and the city hasn't published who is running for council. Three filings are on the record so far.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Ketchikan City Council advances resolution marking two years since fatal landslide
Ketchikan marked two years since the White Cliff landslide with a plaque. The slide killed one person and destroyed homes above the Third Avenue Bypass.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago1 min read
Southeast wolf hunters will be asked to leave a little of the animal behind
Southeast wolf hunters will be asked to leave a strip of hide, a bit of muscle, and on Prince of Wales, the foreleg bones. Season opens Sept. 1.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
The Inter-Island Ferry Authority's first boat is getting a refit
The Inter-Island Ferry Authority's original boat, the MV Prince of Wales, is getting a $658,041 refit. It has been the backup since the Stikine took over.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min read
Five Alaska bridges are getting new lights, above and below
Five Alaska bridges are getting new lights, for the aircraft passing above them and the boats passing below. The whole project costs $170,000.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min read
Juneau loses two months of fishing to a 2020 landslide
Juneau loses the north end of Gastineau Channel to all fishing for two months. A 2020 landslide cut hatchery production and the coho aren't returning.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Hecla is hiring for six jobs at the Greens Creek mine near Juneau
Hecla is hiring for six jobs at Greens Creek, the round-the-clock silver mine on Admiralty Island near Juneau — from mining engineer to mill operator.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Resident king salmon limit near Petersburg is three a day in state waters
Anglers around Petersburg can keep more king salmon now after a low harvest and strong hatchery return — but the fish are few and far between.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A Juneau task force wants congestion data to support limiting cruise calls
A Juneau task force wants a congestion study, partly to support a case for limiting cruise ship port calls. A cap ordinance is already pending.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min read
Juneau task force weighs reviving 2001 heliport study that projected 6,037 homes out of noise corridors
Juneau's Visitor Industry Task Force will decide Thursday whether to update a 2001 study that found moving helicopter tours could remove 6,037 homes from noise corridors.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min read
A Hoonah oyster farm wants to grow to about 10 acres
A Hoonah oyster farm wants to add two parcels and renew its state lease for 20 years, bringing the site to about 10 acres. Comments close Sept. 28.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Juneau Assembly votes 6-3 to sell City Hall to Sealaska Heritage Institute for at least $1.5 million
Juneau sold its old City Hall for $1.5 million to a buyer that plans to demolish it and does not yet have the money to build its replacement.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago1 min read
State begins emergency repairs at Skagway ferry terminal with no reopening date
Skagway still has no state ferry service and no reopening date as crews race emergency repairs on its cracked ferry terminal, with chain work set this weekend.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min read
Sitka will test its ballot machines in public before the October election
Sitka residents can watch the ballot-counting machines get tested Sept. 3. The city's pages don't say whether its equipment matches the state's.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Ketchikan voters decide who owns the library and who pays for it
Ketchikan voters decide Oct. 6 whether the borough takes over the public library and whether people outside city limits pay twice as much for it.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Heads up, Sitka flyers: the airport's pre-security restrooms close for six weeks in September
Sitka's airport closes its pre-security restrooms for about six weeks starting in September for a remodel — part of a $40M terminal expansion. Temporary restrooms will sit outside in the loading zone.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Nonresidents can't keep yelloweye around Prince of Wales anymore
Nonresidents can't keep yelloweye or other demersal shelf rockfish around Prince of Wales as of Wednesday. Alaska residents still get one a day.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Petersburg-area gillnetters get one more day before the fishery closes
Drift gillnet fishermen near Petersburg get one more day before Districts 6 and 8 close Thursday — the second short extension this month for the fishery.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
The Legislature will spend $675,000 to renovate its own Capitol parking garage
The Alaska Legislature is spending $675,000 to renovate its own parking garage at the Capitol — though the winning bid came in under the engineer's estimate.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A Situk River king salmon closure is extended as returns fall short
A Situk River fishing closure protecting weak king runs is extended through Aug. 31 — one of several 2026 restrictions on a key Yakutat subsistence river.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Yakutat scallop fishery closes as harvest reaches 145,000-pound cap
Yakutat's commercial scallop fishery closes Wednesday as the fleet hits its 145,000-pound limit — a small statewide fishery worked by just two boats.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Juvenile charged with attempted murder after Klawock standoff
A juvenile fired a rifle at a Klawock police officer Monday night and kept shooting from inside a home before surrendering to troopers. He was charged with attempted murder.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Fog cut visibility to a quarter mile at Gustavus, and it is coming back
Fog dropped visibility around Gustavus and Glacier Bay to a quarter mile or less Tuesday morning. More is expected between 10 pm and 4 am tonight.
by Alaska News1mo ago1 min read
Juneau donors are giving the Legislature 16 more apartments for lawmakers
Juneau donors are giving the Alaska Legislature 16 more apartments for lawmakers to live in during session, in a capital where housing is scarce and costly.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min read
Three lawmakers get paid for late travel claims, and one filed most of them
Three lawmakers will be repaid about $5,970 for late travel claims. One accounts for $4,990 of it, and colleagues' questions drew trip-specific answers.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min read
