Eaglecrest Ski Area’s board approved price increases for season and day passes at Juneau’s city-owned ski mountain last week. The board also voted to implement a 3% fee for credit card transactions beginning in July.
Clarise Larson
City Government Reporter, KTOO
"My mission is to hold Juneau’s elected officials accountable for their actions and how their decisions impact the lives of the people they represent. It’s rooted in the belief that an informed public has the power to make positive change."
When Clarise isn't working, you can find her skijoring with her dog, Bloon, or climbing up walls at the Rock Dump.
Major Assembly decisions on city facility closures, flood mitigation funding on Monday night’s agenda
Votes include deciding on significant components of the budget for next fiscal year and undoing the flood wall local improvement district.
Newscast – Thursday, June 4, 2026
In this newscast: Democratic incumbent Rep. Andi Story now has an opponent in the race for her current seat in the state House: Annette Kreitzer, Haines’ former borough manager; After years of planning, the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska soft-opened a casino on Douglas Island this week. It’s Juneau’s first casino; The National Science Foundation plans to yank a long-standing ocean observation station from the sea floor far off the coast of Alaska next year. It’s one in an entire ocean monitoring system slated to be dismantled as part of the Trump Administration’s rollback on federal science programs that help researchers study the changing climate; The developer of the Alaska LNG project released its first specific public cost estimates Wednesday for the proposed 800-mile gas pipeline and associated infrastructure.
Juneau’s first tribal casino soft opens on Douglas Island amid lingering legal questions
Very few tribes in Alaska have authority over land, so they haven’t had a way to open reservation-style casinos like tribes in the Lower 48. Many, like Tlingit and Haida, have sought to assert authority over Native allotments — like this one — owned by individual tribal citizens.
Yaakw paddlers arrive in Juneau from across Southeast, Canada as Celebration begins
Every other June, more than 100 paddlers arrive in Juneau to kick off Celebration, a gathering of Alaska Native people celebrating cultural revitalization.
12 people infected with gastrointestinal outbreak on cruise ship in Southeast Alaska
The ship began its six-day voyage in Juneau last Tuesday and traveled through several Southeast Alaska towns, including Sitka and Haines.