Juneau

More than 150 people stood around a vigil to remember 16-year-olds Leotis “Leo” Phillips and Zoey “Z” Clark, whose bodies were discovered Monday.

Tribal leaders say the new building is years in the making and will give the tribe a space to teach, learn and remember its history.

City leaders are thinking about how to come up with millions for a long-term solution sponsored by the Army Corps and temporary flood wall upkeep.

Since 2023, the City and Borough of Juneau and cruise lines have negotiated a limit of five large ships per day during the cruise season. But that agreement is voluntary and nonbinding.

T’set Kwei Vera Starbard is an Emmy-nominated writer who has written six plays and multiple episodes of shows like Molly of Denali and Alaska Daily. Starbard is the librettist for Ḵutulagaaw — an opera about the 1802 battles between Lingít people and Russian invaders in Southeast Alaska. That means she wrote the script, which language teacher X̱’unei Lance Twitchell translated, and composer Ed Littlefield put to music. The production premiers  at Thunder Mountain Middle School on Friday Sept. 11. The show runs through Sept. 20.

Police say the investigation into their deaths remains ongoing, and their bodies will be sent to the Alaska State Medical Examiner’s Office in Anchorage for autopsies.