Southeast

The ship began its six-day voyage in Juneau last Tuesday and traveled through several Southeast Alaska towns, including Sitka and Haines.

For years, Juneau’s Costco has offered a specialized shipping service for members in outlying communities that many small business owners relied on. But that’s changing June 7.

Just one of 22 whales born between 2014 and 2018 is known to have survived.

The new facility is Juneau’s fourth urgent care. It will provide treatment for nonemergency medical issues like minor injuries, sinus infections, and upper respiratory symptoms.

A group of canoes from several different communities embarked from Petersburg on May 24 to paddle together to Juneau, camping and visiting villages along the way. It’s a tradition known as Journey. Kéet yaakw — a hand-painted, 39-foot, Tlingit-style fiberglass canoe — is Petersburg’s first in over a century. The local tribe says launching the canoe Journey…

Sitka’s canoe is expected to arrive in Juneau on Tuesday morning along with canoes paddling from communities across the region.