HAVANA — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and leftist guerrilla commanders on Wednesday announced an important breakthrough in peace talks that sets the stage to… Continue reading
BRUSSELS — European Union leaders, faced with a staggering migration crisis and deep divisions over how to tackle it, managed to agree early Thursday to… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — Cheered by jubilant crowds across the nation’s capital, Pope Francis forged common cause Wednesday with President Barack Obama on climate change, immigration and… Continue reading
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The morning Alaska Airlines ‘milk run’ flight through Southeast Alaska ran into mechanical problems Wednesday.As Flight 61 prepared to land in Juneau, a landing gear… Continue reading
The University of Alaska Southeast has officially begun recruiting students for its new associate degree in maritime transportation.The University of Alaska Board of Regents approved… Continue reading
The Alaska State Library’s historical collections reading room has closed to the public due to the ongoing move to the new State Library, Archives and… Continue reading
Termination dust coating the mountain tops reflect in the Mendenhall River on Tuesday.… Continue reading
Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club meeting, 7 a.m., The Prospector Hotel.Storytime, 11 a.m., Douglas Library. Details: 586-5267.Applied Math II Problem Solving, 11 a.m., The Learning Connection.Juneau… Continue reading
Petersburg’s Sandy Beach is safe to swim in once more.The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation released a statement Monday saying that water quality tests found… Continue reading
Retail marijuana stores will be allowed in waterfront commercial districts once those businesses are legally allowed to begin conducting business in Juneau, the City and… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A Texas man who was mauled by a brown bear while moose hunting in Alaska was expected to survive serious injuries, authorities said… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Alaska’s only working coal mine plans to halt exports for the rest of the year as the slow market has forced a temporary… Continue reading
Alaskan artist Dan DeRoux moves one of seven "swans" to be hung in the new Mendenhall Valley Public Library on Monday. Titled "Flights of Imagination,"… Continue reading
A floatplane takes off from the Juneau International Airport as fall colors give way to snow on the Mendenhall Towers on Tuesday.… Continue reading
A male hooded oriole perches on sign at the Juneau Community Garden on Tuesday. Birders from around Alaska are flocking to Community Gardens for an… Continue reading
The judiciary committee of the House of Representatives met Tuesday to discuss judicial reforms inspired by a series of savage sexual assaults in the Alaska… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Fossils from a unique plant-eating dinosaur found in the high Arctic of Alaska may change how scientists view dinosaur physiology, say Alaska and… Continue reading
Parks and Recreation Wednesday hike, 9:30 a.m., call for location. Details: 586-0428.Day of quilting, sewing and good fellowship, 10 a.m., Resurrection Lutheran Church. Quilts donated… Continue reading
KETCHIKAN — A commercial fisherman found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a Kansas diver who died while harvesting sea cucumbers was… Continue reading