This week’s heavy rainfall broke daily rainfall records in Juneau, Ketchikan and Sitka.
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A Petersburg tender holds open mics on board, with its fish hold as the sound stage
A nearly 100-year-old wooden boat in Petersburg has become a staple of the tight-knit local music scene.
Ketchikan got drenched with nearly 7 inches of rain on Tuesday
Ketchikan’s one-day record is nearly nine inches, set on Oct. 11, 1977.
Quannah’s connection: Model and activist makes a different sort of appearance at Elders and Youth Conference
Q&A: Quannah Chasinghorse talks about what makes speaking in Alaska different and what message she tries to carry as she works elsewhere.
Newscast – Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023
In this newscast: Juneau’s municipal election season has officially wrapped up. Voters elected two new Assembly members and re-elected two incumbents. While all of the winning candidates supported the city hall bond proposal, voters rejected it; An international human rights commission has found that mining practices in British Columbia *could* violate the fundamental human rights of communities and tribes in Southeast Alaska
Juneau voters decisively rejected the measure to build a new city hall. So why did they elect candidates who supported it?
Voters rejected a $27 million bond proposal to fund a new city hall – something that all four winning Assembly candidates had favored.
As the once-lucrative Bering Sea crab harvest resumes, Alaska’s fishers face challenges
The state decision to reopen harvests for prized Bristol Bay red king crab provides only a temporary reprieve from long-term environmental and economic difficulties.
21 species have been declared extinct, the US Fish and Wildlife Service says
The species, including birds, mussels and a bat, have been moved off the threatened and endangered list. They join 650 other species that have gone extinct in the U.S.
Alaska ski guide’s new book, ‘The Avalanche Factor,’ aims to improve education on snow slides
Joe Stock says his new book is equal parts avalanche science and avalanche risk mitigation.
New study hints at huge price tag from permafrost thaw in Alaska
In severe warming scenarios, the study found that more than 75% of Earth’s near-surface permafrost will be gone by the end of the century.