Public Safety

Juneau’s Docks and Harbors staff closed off a portion of the launch’s parking lot in mid-January after discovering a large sinkhole near the entrance.

Emergency Programs Manager Ryan O’Shaughnessy shares lessons learned from the major storm events in December and January and how the department operates.

There will be no trial as long as Steve Kroschel remains overseas, the judge said at a hearing last week.

John Bressette joined the city just before record snowfall, followed by rain and flooding, pushed the community to declare a disaster and issue evacuation advisories downtown.

Climate change is making atmospheric rivers more extreme and researchers have traced a 295% increase in landslides reported in the news between the 1980s and 2010s.

More than eight years after 19-year-old Kake resident Jade Williams was killed at a party, a man has been sentenced for causing her death.

The City and Borough of Juneau named Thomas Hatley as Capital City Fire/Rescue’s new fire chief on Friday.

Political compromise isn’t a reason to restrict free speech, Judge Adolf Zeman says in Thursday ruling.

Like other U.S. nationals who are not full U.S. citizens, Tupe Smith of Whittier thought she could vote in local elections but not presidential elections. A key argument in her case is whether she intentionally submitted false voter registration forms.

Rain and warm temperatures melted a lot of snow at higher elevations, and residents say they’re glad the ‘big one’ didn’t come down.