Rosemarie Alexander

Early morning child care at five Juneau elementary schools is being eliminated.

Alaska airports are key drivers of the state’s economy and an area for growth. A new report looks at the economics and community importance of 12 airports around the state. Conducted by Northern Economics, it shows Alaska’s aviation industry supplies 47,000 jobs, and pumps $3.5 billion into the state’s economy. Eighty-two percent of all Alaska…

Millions of pages of Exxon Valdez oil spill litigation will be organized and permanently archived in the capital city. The state archives office has received a federal grant to make the documents accessible to the public. The National Historical Publications and Records Commission, commonly called the National Archives, has given Alaska $109,000 to catalog the…

National Transportation Safety Board investigators have started piecing together the cause of the weekend helicopter crash that killed William Zeman, of Juneau. Bad weather prevented a visit to the accident site until Tuesday. Senior Air Safety Investigator Clint Johnson says the ERA helicopter went down about six miles southwest of Iliamna. “We spent most of…