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DeVries said she believes in limited government and is a supporter of large Permanent Fund dividends in line with a decades-old formula.

It was a sunny afternoon until the sky abruptly darkened, heavy rain came down and winds gusted up to 60 mph. A cruise ship docked downtown broke free of its mooring and drifted into the Gastineau Channel at the height of the storm.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy told legislative leaders Monday that he had vetoed a bipartisan bill that the heads of the state House and Senate say was necessary to address what they described as a “persistent pattern of obstruction within the senior ranks of Alaska’s Department of Revenue.”

The Juneau chapter of St. Vincent de Paul will have a new executive director in July. Dave Ringle, who has led the organization for the last five years, is stepping down as director.

Mark Sabbatini said he submitted his resignation letter three weeks ago over disagreements with the publisher, Carpenter Media Group, which bought the paper last year.

Judge Larry Woolford granted a motion to stay requested by Tenakee Springs, Pelican, Gustavus and Elfin Cove. The communities filed an appeal of the state’s local boundary commission’s decision in April.