An ordinance appropriating $40,000 to fund Juneau-Douglas High School’s automotive program is headed for public hearing next month. About 80 high school students participate in the program each year.
Adelyn Baxter
Audience Engagement Editor, KTOO
Independent candidate wins seat on Sealaska board of directors
Sealaska shareholders elected independent candidate Nicole Hallingstad to the Native corporation’s board of directors.
Two remaining independents vie for spots on Sealaska board
One of three independent candidates running for the Sealaska Board of Directors withdrew from the race this week. Shareholders will find out the results of the election tomorrow at the annual meeting in Wrangell.
Photos: GLITZ performers light up Centennial Hall for annual drag show
Drag kings and queens took the stage this weekend in all their glitter and glamour for the fourth annual GLITZ Drag Show.
Competitors chop, climb and muck their way through annual Gold Rush Days
Juneau residents gathered at Savikko Park this weekend to celebrate the region’s mining and logging industries once again.
After 20 years, Juneau Community Charter School moving into JDHS
With the help of parents, professional movers and a dozen or so football players, the Juneau Community Charter School moved desk by desk into Juneau Douglas High School.
City seeks community help with $1 million endowment for Alaska College of Education
The City and Borough of Juneau is looking to the community for help meeting the remainder of its $1 million commitment to the University of Alaska’s new education college.
49 Voices: Nellie Vale of Yakutat
Nellie Vale, 10, of Yakutat arrived by canoe to Celebration 2018. The festival is held every two years to celebrate Southeast Native culture, and it unofficially begins with canoes representing various tribes arriving into the Juneau area.
Elders look on with pride as younger generations step up at Celebration 2018
What began 36 years ago as an attempt to save Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures from extinction has become a vibrant reminder that Alaska Native traditions are alive and thriving.
Totem pole erected in Savikko Park represents long-delayed healing for descendants of Douglas Indian Village
Members of the T’aaḵú Ḵwáan gathered Tuesday at Savikko Park in Douglas for the raising of the Yanyeidì Gooch kootéeyaa, or Wolf totem pole.