In a split vote Monday, the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly decided to sue the State of Alaska over school funding.
Education
Juneau’s Harborview Elementary School is crazy for World Hoop Day
How do you get 400 elementary school kids to hula hoop at the same time? Make it a school project for World Hoop Day.
Alaska’s high court first supreme court in the nation to hear climate change case
The lead plaintiff’s home in Kipnuk is uninhabitable because of spring floods, melting permafrost and erosion.
Arctic Agriculture Conference draws researchers
Presentations at the university’s eighth annual conference in Girdwood focused on food: its security, storage, and safety.
Congress extends timber country payments one year
Congress has passed a one-year extension of a program that pays out millions of dollars to communities in Alaska near national forest land, like Petersburg.
Troll leads Peters in Juneau’s only contested municipal election race
In unofficial results, Troll leads by almost 300 votes with 1866 total; Bill Peters has 1571 votes.