Environment

Juneau is buying bike racks that double as public art with locally inspired motifs.

A salvage operation and clean-up efforts are still underway in Haines, where a 78-foot tender sank last weekend in the boat harbor.

Juneau police say a bear was struck by two vehicles on Glacier Highway near Jensine Street Thursday afternoon.

The U.S. Forest Service employs about 400 people in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest and most of them are on furlough, awaiting a call from the federal government that they’ll soon be back to work.

“These are short-lived treasures, and once they’re gone they’re gone forever; they’ll never be back,” says explorer Eddy Cartaya.

It hasn’t been an easy job to re-roof the old Treadwell pump house on Sandy Beach.