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Brittany Buell at the Mendenhall Glacier.

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Love won a year ago

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my phone buzz on my desk, the message previewing:…

Geoff Kirsch

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Slacktide: To sleep, perchance to dream … about more sleeping

Man, I feel like I haven’t slept in months. Know why? Because I haven’t. Partly, I blame high-definition…

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Living & Growing: Go to grow

“I do not have to go to church to be a believer.” This was a statement I heard…

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Senior Menu

Monday, June 27 Creole Pork Steaks Couscous Steamed Carrots Honey Orange Salad Tuesday, June 28 Baked Fish Buttered…

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Rasmuson Art Acquisition Grant funds City Museum artwork

The Juneau-Douglas City Museum has been awarded over $11,000 from the Museums Alaska Art Acquisition Fund supported by…

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Juneau resident named to Dean’s List at Colby College

Abigail A. Taylor-Roth of Juneau was named to the Dean’s List at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, for…

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Students selected for BRHF’s Edelman Health Sciences Scholarships

Bartlett Regional Hospital Foundation awarded six scholarships to Juneau students through the Grace and Phil Edelman Health Sciences…

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State seeks nominations for 2016 Farm Family of the Year

The Alaska Division of Agriculture asks the public to submit nominations for the 17th Annual Farm Family of…

Tobias Schwörer, a researcher at the University of Alaska's Institute for Social and Economic Research, produced this map of floatplane bases and destinations for his study of how elodea, an invasive waterweed, could spread through the state. Floatplanes are a significant spreader of the weed, fragments of which can lodge in their rudders and floats.

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Controlling elodea with data

Although the invasive water-weed elodea was officially eradicated from the Kenai Peninsula this summer, the statewide threat remains.…

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Alaska IPHC board member fined $49K for fishing violation, resigns

Jeff Kauffman resigned as the Alaska resident member of the International Pacific Halibut Commission on June 22, shortly…

Summer solstice is not often the warmest part of Alaska's summer.

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Alaska Science Forum: Summer solstice doesn’t mean maximum warmth

A person might think that since we get our maximum sunlight on the summer solstice (on or about…

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Spruce aphid: Small bugs, big problem

A larger-than-normal seasonal presence has hampered some Juneau inhabitants this Spring and Summer, impeding members of our locally-rooted…

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Off the Trails: June tide-pooling and a bear story

A minus 4 1/2-foot tide drew us out to check the intertidal zone. As we strolled across a…

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Time for another Quest on the Yukon

WHITEHORSE — The race roster is set for the 18th annual Yukon River Quest, which will begin on…

Best of the Skagway Police Blotter, Volume Two

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UFOs and rhubarb thieves: Crime and ‘crime’ in Skagway

A UFO report in Dyea, a sightseeing sign slapped on a city garbage truck, two penitent rhubarb pilferers…

New releases, magazines, and local and national newspapers on display at the Skaguay News Depot & Books.

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Skagway’s bookstore: Where books are ‘decimated’ – in a good way

SKAGWAY — The Skaguay News Depot & Books packs a lot into a small space with more than…

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Best of the Skagway, Alaska Police Blotter, volumes one and two, highlights.

Volume One: • A man and a woman were reported together in the ladies’ shower at the RV…

Artists on the Island Institute’s ferry tour speak at 360 North in May.

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What we talk about when we talk about climate change

We were at the Fish House in Ketchikan early in April, talking about climate; the room was full…

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Young readers review their favorite books

JUNEAU — Each week throughout the summer, the Juneau Public Libraries, in collaboration with the Friends of the…

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On Writing: The dance we do with readers

My friend Eileen Hosey writes to let me know that she’s keeping a lookout for malaprops in my…