A man who is walking around the world is in Juneau through the weekend. Norio Sasaki is from Kyoto, Japan, and has been on the road for a while.
Nation & World
U.S. Senate witnesses describe dark side of Russia
At a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday, witnesses described Vladimir Putin more as a cunning bully than a good neighbor. The hearing in the Foreign Relations Committee was all about Europe, not the Arctic.
Radio host showcases two-hour block of Filipino culture
October is Filipino American History Month. One Juneau DJ is finding ways to connect others with their culture on the airwaves.
Former Dutch Harbor fisheries observer missing at sea off Peru
An Alaskan fisheries observer went missing in South America in September, and now the U.S. Coast Guard and FBI are investigating his disappearance.
The Story That Made NPR’s Interpreter Cry: #15Girls
It’s a tough life for many of the Syrian kids who are now refugees in Lebanon: working in the fields up to 14 hours a day instead of going to school.
Climate change progress at Arctic Council’s first meeting with US chair
Surprisingly, more than half the council’s non-Arctic states submitted assessment reports of their own emissions of black carbon, the particulate waste from fossil fuel combustion.
Vice President Of Maldives Arrested Over Alleged Plot To Kill President
Vice President Ahmed Adheeb was arrested as he came back from a conference in China. He is suspected of playing a role in a speedboat explosion targeting the president.
Savoonga man marooned in Russia as friends, family rally to raise money for flight home
Despite not needing a visa for the trip, Sivoy Miklahook now finds himself on the wrong side of the Strait as his Russian papers inch closer to expiration and residents in western Alaska rally to bring him home.
Leaked memo shows Morris misled Juneau, Kenai newspaper readers
In a leaked corporate memo, a vice president at Morris Communications told papers it owns–including the Juneau Empire and Peninsula Clarion–to run a pre-written editorial, and represent it as a local staff opinion.
The Russians are coming? Sitka waits
The director of the Sitka Historical Society has been in an extensive—and somewhat bizarre—email exchange with a Russian event promoter named Alex Chupilkin.