In 2022, Trump endorsed Sarah Palin for U.S. House. But in both the special and regular elections, Mary Peltola got more first-choice votes than either Republican.
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Seward’s Lydia Jacoby won’t swim 100-meter breaststroke event at Paris Olympics
She could still go to the Olympics this year, as she’s also set to compete in the 200-meter breaststroke event.
Newscast – Monday, June 17, 2024
In this newscast: It’s taken 44 years, but a hydroelectric project in Angoon finally has all the funding and most of the permits to launch; A rare mountain lion was shot and killed on Wrangell Island earlier this month; Tongass Voices: The Evening Star on creating spaces for queer Indigenous people
Tongass Voices: The Evening Star on creating spaces for queer Indigenous people
The Evening Star came to Juneau during Celebration on her Indigequeer tour. She says she wants her shows to be a space for people who often don’t feel like they can be themselves elsewhere.
State sues Alaska Motor Home after customers say they were swindled and harassed
The company, which faced state action in 2019, has abruptly closed its doors this week.
Coast Guard icebreaker Healy headed to Alaska for three Arctic research missions
The Healy, which is designed to break through ice up to 4.5 feet thick, is one of only two operating polar-class icebreakers owned by the Coast Guard.
An influx of chum salmon in the Canadian Arctic could be the same fish missing from Western Alaska
In recent years, all five salmon species have shown up in rivers from northeast Alaska to Nunavut, in Canada’s eastern Arctic.
Newscast – Friday, June 14, 2024
In this newscast: Cultural ambassadors are now at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center to teach Lingit culture and history to tourists; Representative Mary Peltola recently introduced two bills aimed at addressing bycatch in federal trawl fisheries
New cultural ambassadors deepen tourists’ experience of Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier
For the first time this year, tribal members were hired as ambassadors to share their own experiences and culture with visitors.
An Alaska energy blogger breaks down the looming, much-nuanced Cook Inlet gas shortfall
Alaskans who depend on natural gas for heat or electricity are confronting a looming shortfall in Cook Inlet.