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Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times Masked federal agents arrive to help immigration agents detain immigrants and control protesters in Chicago, June 4, 2025. With the passage of President Trump’s domestic policy law, the Department of Homeland Security is poised to hire thousands of new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, and double detention space.

Opinion

OPINION: $85 billion and no answers

How ICE’s expansion threatens law, liberty, and accountability.

Actors in These Birds, a play inspired by death, flowers and Farkle, hold ‘flowers’ during a performance at the UAS Egan Library on Saturday, Jan. 31. (photo courtesy Claire Richardson)

Neighbors

Living and Growing: Why stories of living and dying in Juneau matter

What if we gave our town a safe space to talk about living and dying with family and…

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Neighbors

Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Jan. 26 – Feb. 1

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy gestures during his State of the State address on Jan. 22, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)

News

Alaska governor debuts fiscal plan, including statewide sales tax and guaranteed PFD

Gov. Dunleavy suggests 4% summer statewide sales tax, falling to 2% in winter; many municipal exemptions and caps…

Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon The entrance to the Alaska Gasline Development Corp.’s Anchorage office is seen on Aug. 11, 2023. The state-owned AGDC is pushing for a massive project that would ship natural gas south from the North Slope, liquefy it and send it on tankers from Cook Inlet to Asian markets. The AGDC proposal is among many that have been raised since the 1970s to try commercialize the North Slope’s stranded natural gas.

Opinion

My Turn: Alaskans must proceed with caution on gasline legislation

Alaskans have watched a parade of natural gas pipeline proposals come and go, as in go nowhere. They…

Courtesy photo Adam Bauer of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Bahá’ís of Juneau.

Neighbors

Living and Growing: Surfing into the future

Many religious traditions draw strength from the past.

Win Gruening (courtesy)

Opinion

OPINION: Juneau Assembly members shift priorities in wish list to Legislature

OPINION: Juneau Assembly members shift priorities in wish list to Legislature

Members of the Alaska House of Representatives and Alaska Senate watch as the final vote on Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of Senate Bill 113 is displayed on the voting board in the House on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)

News

Alaska Legislature fails to override Dunleavy’s veto of a tax bill intended to help education

Senate Bill 113 would have transferred corporate income taxes from other states and channeled some money into public…

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Opinion

LETTER: Juneau families care deeply about how schools are staffed

Juneau families care deeply about how our schools are staffed, supported, and funded. The first draft of the…

Kenny Holston/The New York Times President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he departed the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews, bound for a trip to Britain, Sept. 16, 2025. In his inauguration speech, he vowed to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.

Opinion

OPINION: Ratings, Not Reasons

The Television Logic of Trump’s Foreign Policy.

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Neighbors

Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Jan. 19-25

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

Juneau Jazz Fest founder Sandy Fortier will be leading Alaska Arts Education Consortium. (Alaska Arts Education Consortium)

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Juneau Jazz Fest founder to lead Alaska arts consortium’s education efforts

Sandy Fortier, now AAEC executive founder, was a Juneau music teacher

A City and Borough of Juneau map from 2021 shows labels four avalanche slide paths on Mount Juneau. (City and Borough of Juneau)

News

Avalanche hazard on Behrends path to peak late Tuesday, CBJ says

‘Likelihood of large avalanches’ could significantly increase during that time, advisory warns.

Win Gruening (courtesy)

Opinion

OPINION: Transparency and accountability are foundational to good government

The threat to the entire Juneau community due to annual flooding from glacial outbursts cannot be overstated. Juneau…

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Neighbors

Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Jan. 12-18

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

Four members of the Riley Creek wolf pack, including the matriarch, “Riley,” dig a moose carcass frozen from creek ice in May 2016. National Park Service trail camera photo

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Alaska Science Forum: The Riley Creek pack’s sole survivor

Born in May, 2009, Riley first saw sunlight after crawling from a hole dug in the roots of…

Nelson Mayer and Clayton Stewart at the Winnipeg Comedy Fest, May 2023. (Nelson Mayer/Contributor) Clayton Stewart promotional image. (Nelson Mayer/Contributor)

The Bad Apples bring Indigenous voices to comedy in Kelowna

But this tour will look a little different.

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 12, 2025. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

Opinion

Opinion: Invasion of Venezuela – Not unforeseen

Is Colombia and Cuba Next?

Sun shines through the canopy in the Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Brian Logan/U.S. Forest Service)

Neighbors

Opinion: Let’s start the New Year with an Alaskan-style wellness movement

Instead of simplified happiness and self-esteem, our Alaskan movement will seize the joy of duty.

January community calendar

Neighbors

Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Jan. 5-11

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.