Beginning at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday residents can comment — via phone or Zoom — on the city’s proposed tax hike, the plan for spending federal stimulus funds and using general funds, the school district budget and capital improvement project priorities.
Business
A look at Alaska’s cannabis industry, 6 years in
KDLL’s Sabine Poux spoke to Alaska Marijuana Industry Association treasurer Ryan Tunseth about how the industry has changed since 2015 and where he thinks it’s going.
Bike shops expect another year of high prices, low inventory
Most U.S. retailers were caught off-guard by last year’s spike in demand, and this year bikes could be just as scarce.
An Anchorage piñata maker is crafting giant COVID germs for smashing
Alaskans were eager to get their hands on a version of the coronavirus they could easily destroy.
Juneau’s suburbs are putting a lot of stuff down the drain that they shouldn’t
The Mendenhall Wastewater Treatment Plant serves roughly 20,000 people, but it’s producing sewage experts would expect from about 50,000.
For Alaska Native earring makers, the pandemic brought a boom in business
The sudden increase in business has brought unexpected complications for some artists, like high demand prompting others to copy their signature styles.