Boosters of streamlined mining regulations have ties to Echo Bay’s failed mining venture. But advocates continue to pitch gold mining as Juneau’s economic salvation as public sector jobs dwindle.
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Juneau high school soccer teams play to help injured player
Every year Thunder Mountain and Juneau-Douglas High Schools’ soccer teams turn one or two games into a cancer awareness fundraiser. This year the fundraiser is dedicated to Hunter Rathbone.
Special session to begin Thursday after lawmakers fail to compromise
Gov. Walker has called an immediate special session on the state’s fiscal future. Legislators didn’t pass a budget, but did pass bills on ride-sharing, criminal justice and REAL ID.
Brass music fills the State Office Building
Visiting brass quintet filled the State Office Building’s 8th-floor atrium with music during Juneau Jazz and Classics’ free lunchtime concert.
Juneau’s homeless population prefers Marine Park over Thane campground
A month after the Juneau Assembly passed its anti-camping ordinance, Marine Park has become a new haven for the downtown homeless population. Now the city wants to enforce the park’s posted hours.
From gangs to a grad: A former inmate celebrates finishing college
Galindo is one of three Flying University alums who graduated this month with a four-year degree from the University of Alaska Southeast. Former inmate Nathan Block and Thomas Spitzfaden, a regular student who took classes in Lemon Creek Correctional Center with the inmates, also graduated with bachelor’s degrees.
Crew of USS O’Kane honors WWII sailors killed in USS Juneau sinking
The USS Juneau was a light cruiser in the battle of Guadalcanal, one of the fiercest naval battles of World War II. The vessel was torpedoed and sunk on Nov. 13, 1942, killing 687 sailors, including the five Sullivan brothers.
Sitka murder defendant pleads not guilty; trial set for January
The Sitka Superior Courtroom was standing room only, packed with friends of 28-year old Ali Clayton, who was killed early in the morning of May 6 in her apartment.
100 years after China Joe’s death, Juneau historian remembers immigrant pioneers protected
Mark Whitman has an annual tradition on May 18, the day a prominent Juneau man died. He goes down to Evergreen Cemetery, finds a specific grave marker, and smokes a cigar. He’ s remembering how the generosity of a person known as China Joe had such a huge impact over our early city.
Juneau’s ‘Field of Fireweed’ rezoned industrial
Landowner Spike Bicknell has applied to turn the 26 acres near the airport into a motocross park.