With winter quickly approaching, many homes are unsafe. Two homes, Kotzebue’s dock, roads, bridges and subsistence camps were destroyed.
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Newscast – Thursday. Oct 24, 2024
In this newscast: The final cruise ship of the season, the Norwegian Jewel, leaves Juneau on Thursday evening. It concludes a nearly 200-day cruise ship season for the capital city; The City and Borough of Juneau formally apologized for the 1962 burning of the Douglas Indian Village at a Juneau Assembly meeting on Monday; This week, the Juneau Planning Commission approved a series of land rezones that span from North Douglas to Auke Bay. All of them would increase housing density in those areas, but not everybody is thrilled about it; The Northwest Arctic community of Kotzebue is starting recovery efforts after a coastal storm caused widespread flooding to the town of over 3000 people
Departure of final cruise ship in Juneau marks end to a tumultuous tourism season
It’s one of the latest departure dates of a ship in Juneau, and it marks an end to a tourism season dominated by a contentious ballot proposition and a surprise port announcement.
Juneau’s latest attempt to allow for more housing? Changing zoning rules on city land.
The latest attempt is to entice more developers by rezoning city-owned land to allow for denser housing.
Biden to issue landmark apology over Native American boarding schools
President Biden is expected to issue a formal apology for the federal government’s Native American boarding schools during a visit to Arizona on Friday, according to the governor of a Native American tribe.
State-owned Alaska corporation approves up to $20 million for potential Arctic refuge oil bid
The board of the state-owned Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority voted unanimously Wednesday to spend the money to prepare and possibly submit bids in an upcoming oil lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.