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Juneau’s revamping of South Franklin Street resumed Monday after several weeks of delay. The first phase of the project will add new sidewalks, lighting and drainage improvements to a stretch of the historic thoroughfare.

You can follow sports writer and photographer Klas Stolpe’s coverage of the Juneau Lions Club’s 71st Gold Medal Basketball Tournament here.

Past AASG resolutions have supported the Alaska Legislature’s anti-smoking bills, the inclusion of certain school sports and activities, the omission of “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance, and even how grades point averages are calculated.

“Definitely, you can see the challenge of laying a wood floor in straight patterns there — that we’d lose the essence, the importance of the circle,” said Jeremy Bauer, one of the principal designers.

Tons of scrap metal are piling up in Southeast Alaska’s smaller cities. A new effort aims to make it easier – and less costly – to get rid of the debris.

The 71st Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament starts Sunday with all eight teams in both the B and C brackets taking to the Juneau-Douglas High School gymnasium floor.

Italian energy company Eni this month submitted an exploration plan to drill for oil in federal waters in the Beaufort Sea.

The House voted to cut the money to pay for lawmakers’ daily expenses during the legislative session by three-quarters. These per diem allowances are nearly $300 for the first 30 days of the session, then drop to close to $200 a day. They would fall to $50-$75 a day. But the proposal faces a big hurdle in the Senate.

Regulators say an oil leak could cause much more environmental damage than the current natural gas leak. Both pipelines run through key habitat for endangered beluga whales.

I once scored 32 points in a Gold Medal Tournament B bracket game. And we lost. You see, you have to play defense, too, if you want to advance in the week-long tournament.

Two Juneau residents are facing drug charges after police served a search warrant Wednesday at their Ketchikan hotel room and allegedly found heroin and methamphetamine.

About 75 years ago, the U.S. Navy built a marine railway in Unalaska, which was basically an underwater railroad that helped the military haul boats out of the Bering Sea during World War II.

The House floor session on Thursday was the culmination of weeks of frustration on both sides of the aisle.

Paltry snow levels in the past two years spooked many skiers and season pass sales suffered. But with this latest burst of snow, Eaglecrest’s fans are coming back — one day at a time.

Teams have continued pouring into Nome, filling out the upper ranks of the 2017 Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Champion Mitch Seavey won his third title Tuesday in a record time of eight days, three hours, and 40 minutes, slashing more than seven hours off the previous record.

One of just two commuter airlines connecting small towns in Northern Southeast Alaska to Juneau has shut down. In recent years, Wings of Alaska, which was founded in the 1980s, has changed hands and reduced its flight schedule. Now, it is ending operations. That leaves just one commuter airline serving Haines, Skagway, Gustavus and Hoonah.

A Levelock man will likely be released from jail soon after being sentenced in the sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl after a March 1 hearing. Judge Gregory Miller sentenced Eric Tallekpalek, 22, to 48 months in jail with 39 suspended, plus five years of probation, in the alleged abuse in the village last summer. Tallekpalek also…

One Juneau couple is whipping up a recipe to make local kelp an enticing business and snack. They’re part of a growing number of startups that see Alaska seaweed as a marketable food.

Only one person weighed in during public testimony at Tuesday’s school board meeting on a proposal to lift the ban on out-of-town travel for middle school athletic events, and the mail’s been light, too.

State regulators have given preliminary approval to Hilcorp’s plan to monitor the environmental impacts of the gas leak in Cook Inlet.