Eaglecrest Ski Area’s board approved price increases for season and day passes at Juneau’s city-owned ski mountain last week. The board also voted to implement a 3% fee for credit card transactions beginning in July.
Juneau
Forest Service admits Herbert Glacier cabin cancelled due to mining interests, after previously denying it
The U.S. Forest Service’s initial denial was apparently the result of an internal miscommunication at the agency.
Major Assembly decisions on city facility closures, flood mitigation funding on Monday night’s agenda
Votes include deciding on significant components of the budget for next fiscal year and undoing the flood wall local improvement district.
Tongass Voices: Se’iga Liimii Marcella Asicksik on leading the dances for Celebration 2026
Though this year’s lead dance group has deep roots in Southeast Alaska, it was formed in 2005 in Anchorage by leader Se’iga Liimii Marcella Asicksik. The group performs songs in Sm’algyax, the Ts’msyen language.
Juneau’s first tribal casino soft opens on Douglas Island amid lingering legal questions
Very few tribes in Alaska have authority over land, so they haven’t had a way to open reservation-style casinos like tribes in the Lower 48. Many, like Tlingit and Haida, have sought to assert authority over Native allotments — like this one — owned by individual tribal citizens.
An evolution in traditional canoe carving had its maiden voyage this week
Old growth trees used to make traditional dugout canoes in Southeast Alaska are scarce. So carvers have developed a new method to build traditional boats, the first of which completed its maiden voyage this week, landing back in Juneau for Celebration.