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Juneau’s weather pattern this week will help Eaglecrest open the Black Bear and Hooter chair lifts on Friday as well as Porcupine chair. Until this week, most of Juneau’s snowfall has been cold and dry, which does not pack into a base.  But in recent days warmer temperatures have brought wetter snow, filling in some…

NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco told her staff Wednesday that she will be leaving the post early next year.

Governor Sean Parnell and First Lady Sandy Parnell invited the community into their home Tuesday for the annual Governor’s open house.

The Juneau School Board has selected Lisa Worl to finish out the term of Kim Poole, who recently resigned. The board Tuesday night voted for Worl, who was among six candidates for the seat, including two who had run in the fall municipal election. All six were interviewed by the board on Monday.  At Tuesday’s…

Gema G. Thomas is also operator of Peer Amid Beads and Southeast Artworks.

How do you get 135 third, fourth and fifth graders to learn and apply Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion? Have them design and build paper roller coasters.

Douglas bar owner must also pay back over $54,700

When disaster strikes a Southeast Alaska community, emergency planners urge residents to rely on their own stockpiles before turning to the state’s new food caches.

A number of Southeast leaders are upset about the governor’s plan to scale back the Alaska Class Ferry project. He made his announcement Tuesday in Ketchikan. Legislators and members of an advisory board say they should have been consulted first.

Alaska’s long lost moon rocks are back in Juneau and on display at the State Museum through at least the end of the month. The rocks actually are tiny fragments of moon dust collected by Apollo 11 astronauts in July 1969, and later presented to Governor Keith Miller by President Richard Nixon. In 1973, the…