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Winter ended at Eaglecrest yesterday (Sunday) with a splash.  The city-owned ski area wrapped up its 36th season drenched in sun, warm temperatures, plenty of snow, and the sometimes annual Slush Cup. That’s where brave skiers and snowboarders race down Hilary’s run to a pond filled with water.  The idea is to get across the…

After years of fighting for it, Gov. Sean Parnell has gotten his major legislative priority through: a reduction of the state’s oil tax rate.

Alaska’s predator control program has resulted in the number of wolves in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve dropping by more than half.

Eaglecrest lifts quit turning at 4 p.m. on Sunday. There’s still plenty of snow, but the city-owned ski area’s budget dictates that it close the second Sunday of April.

A dog took the stage during this year’s Alaska Folk Festival.

It may be several weeks before Juneau hires a new police chief.

Lynden has signed a purchase agreement to buy Northland Marine Services.

The time has come to stop talking and start acting when it comes to changes in the Arctic. That was the message of a talk to the Juneau World Affairs Council this week by Alaska Dispatch owner and publisher Alice Rogoff.

Former Mayor Bill Overstreet is being remembered as a persuasive and successful spokesman for Juneau during the capital move fights of the 1970s and 80s.

Southeast Alaskans critiqued the Marine Highway System’s 2013-2014 fall, winter and spring schedule Tuesday.

Right now, the state of Alaska is obligated to provide Medicaid funding for all “medically necessary” abortions. Yesterday the Senate passed a bill that would narrow that definition.

The team selected to rate candidates for a new Juneau Police Chief reads like a “who’s who” in criminal justice and public safety in the capital city.

The Legislative Council has awarded a $1.7 million contract to Alaska Commercial Contractors for the first phase of a two-part project to spruce up the Alaska State Capitol.

Some legislators hope to find ways to get around federal prohibitions on establishing sea-otter bounties.

The public gets a chance to testify Tuesday on the latest oil tax reduction proposal before the Alaska Legislature.

The Alaska Legislature on Monday voted by the narrowest of margins to reject Governor Sean Parnell’s reappointment of Vince Webster to the state Board of Fisheries.

Traffic was backed up along Egan Drive this morning due to a vehicle fire.

Protestors with the anti-abortion Center for Bioethical Reform held up large signs across from the state capitol building in Juneau this week, depicting graphic images of aborted fetuses.

Three finalists for Juneau Police Chief will come to the capital city next week to compete in person for the job. They hope to replace Juneau Police Chief Greg Browning, who is retiring at the end of May. Nineteen men, including two from Juneau, applied for the job.  That list was whittled to six candidates,…

John N. Marvin, Jr. sentenced to two consecutive terms of 99-years in prison