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Seaweed farming begins in Southeast
Published 8:02am Wednesday, October 12, 2016A year ago, Trevor Sande wasn’t thinking much about seaweed. Early this November, however, he and the employees at Hump Island Oyster Company in Ketchikan, ... Read more
US wants to strengthen agreement to ban Arctic Ocean fishing
Published 8:02pm Thursday, October 6, 2016PORTLAND, Maine — The United States is trying to broker an agreement between a host of nations to prohibit unregulated fishing in the international waters ... Read more
Goat hunting closure
Published 8:01pm Tuesday, October 4, 2016Effective 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced an early closure of the middle portion of the Takshanuk Mountain Range to ... Read more
My Turn: City leaders take measured approach to budget
Published 8:04am Friday, September 30, 2016While Alaska lawmakers wrestled with serious budget issues over the last year, Juneau and many other communities have been relatively untouched by the fiscal calamity ... Read more
My Turn: ‘The Road’ isn’t on course with Gov. Walker’s fiscal goals
Published 8:03am Sunday, September 25, 2016Cutting the cost of state government is a vital component of Gov. Bill Walker’s sustainable budget proposal. Every little bit helps. That’s why he’s posted ... Read more
My Turn: Smaller dividends are painful but prudent
Published 8:03am Sunday, September 25, 2016Alaskans will soon receive our annual dividend checks. This year’s $1,022 check for every qualified resident will help Alaska families with things like winter fuel, ... Read more
Southern fisheries earn win in federal court
Published 8:02am Sunday, September 25, 2016ANCHORAGE — A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a state commercial fishing organization that challenged a decision to move several southern Alaska ... Read more
Assembly candidates talk the road, senior sales tax and diversity
Published 12:37am Thursday, September 22, 2016District 1 incumbent Mary Becker said the Juneau Assembly has no control of the road out of Juneau “because it is in the hands of ... Read more
JDHS graduate, retired Homer News reporter writes book on “drill baby” on Kenai Peninsula
Published 8:02am Wednesday, September 21, 2016Juneau-Douglas High School graduate and Homer writer McKibben Jackinsky’s first book, “Too Close to Home? Living with ‘drill baby’ on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula” tells the ... Read more
Candidate profile: Dan DeBartolo (School Board)
Published 8:03am Sunday, September 18, 2016Length of residency: 8.5 years in Juneau Education: Southern Illinois University, business & media communications; University of Alaska Southeast, accounting Occupation: Director of administrative Services, ... Read more
Willoughby District development update
Published 8:04am Friday, September 16, 2016The Juneau Economic Development Council on Wednesday held a community meeting to provide updates on improvements to the Willoughby District, an ongoing effort between landowners ... Read more
Talks held in Sitka, Juneau for Audobon’s new Southeast ecological study
Published 8:01am Wednesday, September 14, 2016Where can you find the highest number of bird species in Southeast Alaska? Where does the habitat of brown and black bears overlap? Audubon Alaska’s ... Read more
Juneau’s homeless clinic will soon be run by Wrangell org
Published 10:24pm Friday, September 9, 2016After managing Juneau’s Front Street Community Health Center for more than a year, Alaska Island Community Services will soon completely take over the health center ... Read more
Kasaan’s Whale House restored, rededicated
Published 8:03am Wednesday, September 7, 2016As the morning of Sept. 3 broke warm and clear over the village of Kasaan, a small southeast Alaskan village of approximately 50 year-round residents, ... Read more
Building a better backyard: Locals inventory Southeast forests
Published 8:00am Wednesday, August 31, 2016Southeast Alaskans are not shy around the forest. Our rural communities are surrounded by the largest remaining temperate rainforest on earth. We build homes and ... Read more
Homer bans pets in back of pickups
Published 8:00am Monday, August 29, 2016HOMER — Homer has made amendments to the city’s animal control laws that ban a practice some might think of as Alaskan as log cabins ... Read more
My Turn: The Legislature is even more broken than we thought
Published 8:01am Sunday, August 28, 2016“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the ... Read more
City Manager to AEL&P: Defend yourself
Published 1:30am Friday, August 19, 2016About 65 people attended a public forum Wednesday night to ask representatives from the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company about their plans to build ... Read more
My Turn: Reauthorization provides an opportunity to approach problems
Published 8:00am Thursday, August 11, 2016The recent editorial by William Hogarth and Steve Murawski, titled “Longstanding fisheries act doesn’t need changing,” gets a lot of things right. The Magnuson-Stevens Act ... Read more
Walker: ‘I’m the only guy with a bucket’
Published 8:02am Friday, August 5, 2016HOMER — In a talk before the Homer City Council on Tuesday, Gov. Bill Walker mentioned a historic photo of Metlakatla villagers Lt. Gov. Byron ... Read more