At least one person lost more than $50,000 in the scam.
Community
Volunteers hope for city support with cleaning up Douglas Island graveyards
The volunteers say they can only do so much to fight the rainforest’s creep. Some of them wonder what the city could do to help.
Juneau celebrates newest US citizens with naturalization ceremony
Immigrants from the Philippines, Mexico, Canada, Chile and the Netherlands took the oath of allegiance in front of their families and friends at a naturalization ceremony at the Robert Boochever U.S. Courthouse.
Juneau is at the forefront of Alaska’s burgeoning pinball scene
For the first time, Alaska tournament results are going to the International Flipper Pinball Association, which publishes online rankings for players all over the world.
Grieving father builds observation deck to remember Haines landslide victim
The deck is on private property, but people who knew David Simmons are welcome to stop, take in the view and pay their respects.
Leo the cat, missing since Juneau’s record flood, is safe
After escaping the house that tumbled into the river and then spending weeks in the woods, somehow Leo is in pretty good shape.
Presbyterian Church leaders visit Juneau to plan apology for 1962 church closure
Alaska Native leaders spoke to church leaders on Wednesday about the harm religious organizations have done to Lingít communities through language suppression and violence at boarding schools.
Local stories mean Yukon River ‘treasure trove’ is more than just a lot of dinosaur footprints
It has been more than a decade since researchers first announced that they’d found dinosaur footprints along the middle section of the Yukon River. And when that team did make their discovery public, they also said that it was unlikely that people who live along the river even knew dinosaur footprints littered the riverbanks near them. But…
With more community gardens in Juneau, wait lists for plots are shrinking
People who run the gardens say now is a great time for beginners to get involved.
2 children were hurt after someone bear-sprayed a slide at Juneau’s Twin Lakes Park
The bear spray has proved hard to clean. “They tried everything we could think of,” said George Schaaf, the city’s parks and recreation director. “Dawn dish soap and pressure washing and scrubbing.”