Pablo Arauz Peña, KTOO

The City and Borough of Juneau announced two closures at a popular hiking spot next week to clear up rockslide debris in the area.

Public services manager Lauren Verrelli says the park maintenance division will be excavating the debris on Basin Road on June 15.

“This is very frequent with rockslides there and we usually do at least one of these a year,” Verrelli said.

Workers will be excavating the road with heavy equipment between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

Nearby Perseverance Trail will also be partially closed to the public between Tuesday, June 15 and Friday, June 25 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. except on weekends.

Verrelli is asking any park patrons to obey signs in the work zones.

“Just mind the park staff instructions if there’s any signage in the area while they’re working,” she said.

The city also says access to Granite Creek Trail and Silverbow Basin will be limited during work hours.

In this newscast:

• Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy signed a bill into law protecting an Unangax cemetery in Funter Bay on Tuesday at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum.
• This weekend, Sitkans gathered in memory of the 215 Indigenous children whose remains were discovered last week on the grounds of a former residential school in Canada.
• During the drought in Southeast Alaska a few years ago, a small insect called a sawfly ate the needles off of about a half-million acres of hemlock trees in the Tongass National Forest.
• The Juneau School District Board of Education passed a slight change to graduation requirements last night.

In this newscast:

• The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska launched a community and behavioral health division this spring.
• As summer fishing seasons gear up and get started, Wrangell community groups gathered at the Wrangell Mariners’ Memorial to wish safety to anyone on the water, and remember those who have lost their lives at sea.
• Former President Donald Trump issued a statement Monday blaming Lisa Murkowski for the Biden administration’s decision to suspend action on drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
• An agreement between an Alaska Native village corporation and conservationists would restrict development on lands in the Bristol Bay region where a mine developer has proposed a road.

In this newscast:

• There have been scattered reports and a few pictures of Juneau black bears recently popping up on social media.
• Alaska’s tourism businesses were girding for another tough summer — until the successful rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.
• A Florida lawsuit is challenging the Centers for Disease Control’s pandemic rules for cruise ships, which may impact cruises to Alaska.
• Tom Fink, a former speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives, has died. He was 92.

In this newscast:

• State transportation officials are beginning a new study and winding down another for two prominent road projects in Juneau.
• A group of Juneau residents who want to limit cruise ship traffic in town didn’t get enough signatures to advance their proposed ballot initiatives.
• Last Friday, Juneau had its first women and trans skate event at the Pipeline.
• A critical lifeline for the Southeast hamlet of Meyers Chuck is sinking.

In this newscast:

• A Utah man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for killing his wife while on an Alaska cruise.
• For months, officials with the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska followed along as the Juneau Assembly developed new restrictions on the use and sale of fireworks.
• The University of Alaska is launching a system-wide program geared toward retaining more Alaska Native students at the school and increasing the number of Alaska Native staff members.