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After more than two days of trolling for salmon during the Golden North Salmon Derby, Jody Hass and her family were wrapping it up when one decided to bite.

Tonight is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.

A popular medevac insurance company says it’s close to resuming business in Alaska. Apollo Medi Trans stopped renewing policies earlier this year, leaving many customers without coverage.

A proposed marine shipping buyout of Northland Services by Lynden Inc. is one step closer to approval.

Perseverance Theatre’s STAR Program is hosting the summer’s final performances. Plays include Shakespeare’s King Lear, the British comedy Cinderella, and a new production of Guys and Dolls.

The parent companies of Juneau’s gold and silver mines have posted a net loss for the second quarter of 2013 that ended June 30th.

Scubua diving emergencies can no longer be treated at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau. After more than 30 years, the facility discontinued its hyperbaric chamber program and recently removed the 13-foot chamber.

Master Gardener Ed Buyarski explains it all.

The Alaska Housing Finance Corporation’s board has accepted longtime CEO Dan Fauske’s resignation and hired Department of Revenue Commissioner Bryan Butcher as his replacement.

50,000 sockeye salmon is the early catch estimate for a 3-day gillnet opening at Port Snettisham and the Speel Arm near Juneau, with 35,000 of those fish caught in the first six hours.

The Arctic ice cap reached a new low in September 2012.  In just six months last year, 4.5 million square miles of Arctic Ocean ice melted, according to a report by the United Nations. While that may be hard to imagine, the commanding officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star says Arctic ice…

Last night was Juneau’s annual National Night Out celebration.

Six traditional canoes have retraced a historic Tsimshian route from British Columbia’s northern coast to southern Southeast Alaska.

As we move toward autumn, low pressure systems will begin to boot Juneau’s unusually warm and dry summer out of the way.

The latest version dictates what times are considered ‘day-time’ hours versus ‘night-time’ hours. It also defines noise level in terms of decibels, which CBJ attorney Amy Mead says is hard to enforce.

Previous indictment against Ryan Martin was thrown out

More than 100 people joined Juneau’s Equality for All party on Friday, to celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and allowing same-sex married couples equal treatment under federal law. The celebration featured performances by the Juneau Pride Chorus, a dance group, and other music. Kimberley Crawford was…

The designer and creator of the popular line Kodiak Coats is moving on to leather and silks, and leaving Juneau.

The U.S. Coast Guard is 223 years old.  The maritime service was created on Aug. 4, 1790 as the Revenue Cutter Service under the U.S. Department of Treasury. Juneau is headquarters of the 17th Coast Guard District, which includes the Arctic. Part of Juneau’s weekend celebration included a visit by the heavy ice breaker Polar…

The CBJ assembly and hospital board hold separate executive sessions today to discuss a confidential personnel investigation at Bartlett Regional Hospital regarding allegations of a hostile work environment.