Jennifer Pemberton

We’ve started asking everyone who appeared in a news story or was a guest on Juneau Afternoon to identify their gender and race and/or ethnicity.

No discussion of cruise ships would be complete without talking about maritime disasters. Especially maritime disasters involving international superstar musicians.

Cruise Town’s cultural interpreters have the difficult task of explaining their history, their culture, their art — their existence — to someone who just got off a cruise ship.

Thousands of seasonal workers come to Juneau to work in tourism. Most of them young. They can make Cruise Town feel a lot like a summer camp.

Juneau was one of the first places in the world to charge a per person tax on cruise passengers. Also, it got sued.

Part of our newsroom’s mission is to “consciously seek out the voices, perspectives and stories not found in other news outlets.”