More than five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, new strains of the virus continue to develop and adapt. Similar to national trends, cases in Alaska — especially in Southeast …
President Donald Trump is planning to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, Aug. 15, in Alaska to discuss a possible peace deal that could bring an end to the three-year-old Russian …
The WMC Cancer Care Foundation was created in 2005 because Janet Buness, the hospital’s director of nursing, realized a cancer diagnosis often comes with expenses that insurance doesn’t …
U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., in an Anchorage news conference last week, justified his decision to cancel about $500 million in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development by claiming …
Goldbelt, the urban Native corporation for Juneau, is aiming high with its proposed private cruise port on Douglas Island with facilities that include “skybikes” and treehouses, and docks …
SEARHC is moving ahead with plans to build housing for its staff who work in Wrangell on short-term assignments. The first phase will include eight furnished rentals in three duplexes and two …
It’s been slow at the salmon derby weigh-in station, but cohos may change that. As of Monday afternoon, less than a dozen kings and coho had been lifted up and weighed in the adult …
Joshua Garrett was enjoying a quiet Saturday when he learned that Alaska lawmakers had overridden Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of $50 million in school funding — news that will …
When Haidyn Gadd decided to take part in the Youth Employment Services (YES) program, she originally hoped to work with her mother, Sara Gillen, owner of Drive Thru Brew. She didn’t …
Alaska’s senior U.S. senator acknowledges that she disappointed key supporters when she cast a decisive vote a month ago in favor of the budget reconciliation measure known as the …
In the several years he has been in Alaska, Javier Beltran has worked multiple jobs; but all the while, he wanted to do his favorite thing: cook for other people. That has now become a …
Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars — often known …
Five commercial fishermen working the waters near Yakutat have been indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to illegally harvest halibut. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of …
The one-block section of St. Michaels Street between Front and Church streets was closed for much needed rebuilding as of Aug. 4, with the pavement already pulled up on the second day of work on Aug. …
Brenda Mork handed items from the porch at the Head Start building down to Tommy Rohr Wickman so he could load the items on a truck on Aug. 5, part of the short move across the street to new …
The old saying is that good things are worth the wait. S wimmers are undoubtedly happy with the news that the community swimming pool has reopened after a shutdown of more than three …
BACK-TO-SCHOOL REGISTRATION for grades K-12. Online registration is open. Check the school district website at: www.wpsd.us . Classes begin Aug. 21. BACK-TO-SCHOOL backpacks for …
The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned its first additional polar icebreaker in 25 years in Juneau on Sunday, Aug. 10, marking what officials called a new era in Arctic activity for the United States. …
After years of providing shelter for a multitude of different community events, the downtown pavilion will be taken apart sometime before mid-September and put into storage until it can find a new …
After debating at several meetings an age limit for e-bike and e-scooter users in town, the borough assembly settled on an ordinance that sets “rules of the road” for users — but does not set a …