Representatives from the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida, City Manager Katie Koester and Mayor Beth Weldon are headed to Washington, D.C. this week to advocate for additional federal money to support a possible flood mitigation study.
Environment
$15 million EPA grant for Southeast composting projects latest in local expansion efforts
Tlingit and Haida will use the money to expand composting in Juneau and tribal communities across Southeast Alaska. It’s part of a larger trend of funding for composting in the region.
Visitors to Alaska’s national parklands pumped $2.3 billion into the state’s economy, report says
The 3.3 million visitors who came to Alaska’s national park sites in 2023 spent about $1.5 billion in the local regions, according to the Park Service’s annual visitor spending effects report.
After a string of fatal landslides, is this a new normal for Southeast Alaska?
The string of recent deadly slides is changing the way people look at their surroundings and plan for the future in a changing climate.
Juneau officials discuss short and long-term glacial flood preparation, as Suicide Basin fills again
City leaders say they’re working with federal partners on strategies to endure a future of floods in the Mendenhall Valley, following a second year of record-breaking flooding.
New research hopes to find better ways to manage interactions between Juneau’s black bears and people
A survey to learn more about the way people interact with bears around town was sent out this spring to 5,000 randomly selected residents.