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This is the snowiest March the city has seen since consistent record keeping began in 1943. But after a data correction, the city is 1.2 inches from beating the overall winter record.

The virtual meeting has been added to a calendar of in-person meetings in communities around Southeast.

The bill would replace most local property and sales taxes with a tax on the volume of gas flowing through the pipeline. It would likely amount to a significant tax cut for the project.

More than 92% of adult tribal members that the tribe was able to contact by phone in recent weeks voted to relocate. Of two potential relocation sites located between Kipnuk and Chefornak, two-thirds said they’d prefer an option closer to the historical settlement of Cicing.

Students enrolled in the Juneau School District’s House Build program are eligible to join the annual Habitat for Humanity build trip in Hawaii.

The state board will create a new committee to review concerns, including student services and maintenance needs after roughly a quarter of students disenrolled this year.

Lawmakers appointed a conference committee after prior versions of the bill failed to garner support from House Republicans to spend from savings.

The tentative agreement is awaiting ratification from the union and approval from the Juneau School Board.

Work on the first phase of the controversial ferry terminal project was planned for late summer, but it’s being delayed due to a permitting issue.

The U.S. Coast Guard has identified two people who died Sunday while working in a confined space on a freight barge near Ketchikan.

Juneau Police commander Matt DuBois oversees many aspects of the regional task force that investigates illegal drugs coming in and being distributed in Southeast Alaska.

The roughly 30-minute speech emphasized overcoming challenges and entering what she says is a period of promise.

Police say Michael Northern Miller was reportedly seen on Thursday evening at about 11 p.m. in the Mendenhall Valley near Jerry Drive.

Lawmakers boosted base formula funding by $700 per student last year — but that’s just $20 more than they’d gotten on a one-time basis the year before.

According to a press release from Juneau Education Association, 92% of the union’s 265-person bargaining unit voted to authorize a strike.

The cost would be less than $1 a month for individual users, but in turn, it is estimated to generate between $6 to 8 million annually toward enhancing the state’s capacity to respond to mental health emergencies.

The Alaska Board of Fisheries is meeting Tuesday through Saturday in Anchorage at the Egan Civic and Convention Center to consider changes to statewide finfish fisheries.

Beginning on Sunday, hundreds of people from across Southeast will watch nearly 30 regional adult teams play dozens of games and compete for titles in five brackets.

Maggie McMillan stepped into her new role at a time when arts organizations across the country are losing long-standing grants due to the Trump administration’s sweeping federal funding cuts.

Eleven companies bought oil and gas leases on 1.3 million acres of the NPR-A, including tracts around Teshekpuk Lake, a previously protected area.