There were at least four electrical outages ranging from half-an-hour to over 2 hours in length.
Local Government
Students get early start on firefighting career
Capital City Fire/Rescue holds a Cadet Firefighter Graduation on Saturday at the Auke Bay Station.
Hearing scheduled for Haven House appeal
The Juneau Assembly must decide whether to uphold or overturn the transitional home’s conditional use permit.
‘Gremlins’ partially to blame for Sitka outage
All of Sitka lost power for a little under an hour Wednesday afternoon when a protective relay tripped at the Jarvis St. diesel substation.
Juneau joins chorus of communities calling for international mine review panel
Juneau has joined a growing number of communities to call for an international panel to review mines along the U.S.-Canada border near Southeast Alaska.
Dimond Park leisure pool closed after “fecal incident”
The leisure pool at Juneau’s Dimond Park Aquatic Center was temporarily closed this afternoon, following what city officials called a “fecal incident.”
Juneau’s tobacco tax triples April 1
The Juneau Assembly on Monday passed a 200 percent local tax increase on cigarettes, giving the capital city the highest tobacco tax rate in Alaska. The Assembly also implemented a new tax on e-cigarettes.
CBJ Regular Meeting 2/2/2015
Audio from the Feb. 2, 2015 CBJ Assembly meeting.
Pot smoke added to Juneau’s indoor smoking ban
The Juneau Assembly unanimously voted to amend the city’s indoor public smoking ban to include pot, despite objections from some marijuana advocates.
Juneau School District preps for grim budget
“You really can’t solve multimillion dollar budget crisis by cutting $5,000 here or $4,000 here,” says Superintendent Mark Miller.