
Juneau School Board delays returning $1 million to the city due to questions about after-school child care
The school board plans to discuss the state of after-school child care as it decides what to do with $1 million in city funding.

Alaska kicks off billion-dollar effort to ‘transform’ rural health care
Alaska is set to receive $273 million per year for five years from the program, created as part of President Trump’s spending- and tax-cut law passed this summer.

MLK Day events in Juneau celebrate King’s legacy of activism
It’s a day to remember the legacy of the famous civil rights leader and a national day of service, and local organizations and volunteers will host events to mark the occasion.

Anchorage judge overturns state law limiting live music at breweries and distilleries
Political compromise isn’t a reason to restrict free speech, Judge Adolf Zeman says in Thursday ruling.

Alaska Appeals Court takes up American Samoa-born woman’s voter misconduct case
Like other U.S. nationals who are not full U.S. citizens, Tupe Smith of Whittier thought she could vote in local elections but not presidential elections. A key argument in her case is whether she intentionally submitted false voter registration forms.

Dzantik’i Heeni playground inches toward reality following school board funding approval
School board members agreed to pull money from an afterschool child care fund to serve as a match for a foundation’s grant toward the project.

Juneau weaver receives national fellowship with $50,000 attached
United States Artists partners with foundations and philanthropists to support artists and cultural practitioners of all disciplines.

Priorities, predictions and plans going into the legislative session with Juneau Sen. Jesse Kiehl
With the second regular session of the 34th Alaska Legislature beginning on Tuesday, it’s time to check in with members of Juneau’s delegation to talk priorities, predictions and plans.

State seeks input for plan to boost logging in Haines
At local meetings, people have voiced confusion over the process – and about how they were supposed to weigh in on the issue without seeing the current draft.

Murkowski wants to reassure Denmark, but it’s not clear Congress is with her
President Trump continues to talk about taking Greenland, a territory of Denmark. Congress hasn’t shown it’s willing to rein in his military ambitions.

Tlingit and Haida tribal members concerned by tribal government corporation presence in Guantánamo Bay
While tribal corporation leadership says their operations are separate from the detention center on the military base, what’s happening on the ground may tell a different story.

Residents in avalanche zones return home after Juneau clears last evacuation advisory
Rain and warm temperatures melted a lot of snow at higher elevations, and residents say they’re glad the ‘big one’ didn’t come down.

Newly proposed legislation aims to curb Alaska bycatch
Alaska’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday that aims to reduce bycatch in parts of southwest Alaska using better marine data, technology and gear.

The freshmen: Two new Mat-Su Republicans prepare for their first session
Gov. Mike Dunleavy appointed Mat-Su Republicans Steve St. Clair and Garret Nelson to fill two open seats in the state House late last year.

A Juneau-born athlete is headed to the 2026 Olympic Winter Games
Last month, 24-year-old Maxime Germain made the team for the event that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.

Why Juneau’s warming shelter moved multiple times during the avalanche advisory
Staff at the city’s emergency warming shelter for unhoused residents relocated operations three times in two days.

Alaska pollock processors drop foreign worker program, citing uncertainty
Some of Alaska’s largest pollock processors are abandoning a foreign worker visa program that once supplied up to half their workforce, citing rising costs and uncertainty under stricter immigration policies.

Juneau’s City Hall move will cost millions more than expected
In September, the Juneau Assembly greenlit the purchase of the floors from the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation. At the time, the cost estimate was less than $18 million.

U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear case that could have upended Alaska subsistence fishing
Changes to federal subsistence management are still possible through a newly started regulation review process.

Mount Juneau gets new radar avalanche detection system as Behrends path remains under evacuation advisory
Forecasters say this will tell them where and when avalanches occur, even when they can’t see them.