Arts & Culture

Updated: Alaska children’s author and long-time Juneau resident Jean Rogers has died. She was 93.

Attu Island is overdue for some spring cleaning. Seventy years after World War II, the island is still littered with shards of old Coke bottles, lead-based batteries, leaking fuel drums and unexploded artillery.

Former state Senator Albert Kookesh was medevaced to Anchorage Monday morning after suffering a heart attack.

Alaskans marked Elizabeth Peratrovich Day on Saturday, in honor of the Tlingit woman whose testimony to the territorial legislature helped pass an Anti-Discrimination Act in 1945. A small crowd gathered at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau to hear a talk from Barbara Cadiente-Nelson, a board member of Sealaska Native Corporation and the Douglas Indian…

Despite advancements in tribal governing, leaders are worried about the coming sequester, and what it means for Indian Health Services.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is recognizing arts education efforts in Alaska’s Capital City.