News

If the White House’s request had been approved by Congress, several projects in Alaska would have ended as early as this summer.

As glaciers retreat in Southeast Alaska, scientists are trying to figure out how that will impact the marine environment.

The Twin Lakes playground destroyed by arson was insured — to a point. The policy carries a $100,000 deductible that will have to be matched.

The feds have extended the comment period over Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s application to put downtown parcels into trust. The City and Borough of Juneau had asked for more time to review proposal which could exempt the tribal organization from its jurisdiction.

Tanana Chiefs Conference General Counsel Natasha Singh said her organization would support drawing money from the Permanent Fund — if the solution is balanced.

Gov. Bill Walker is set to serve a two-year term on the Council of Governors after an announcement Monday from President Donald Trump.

The Sitka Hospital Board has prepared a budget for next year that cuts back surgical coverage to half-time, and phases out obstetrical services altogether. Although the plan intentionally hands over childbirths in Sitka to SEARHC’s Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital, the administration at Sitka Community believes their clinic can still provide strong pre- and post-natal services. While…

A California-sized chunk of the Arctic will remain designated as critical polar bear habitat. That’s the effect of a U.S. Supreme Court order Monday declining to hear an appeal from the state of Alaska, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and an oil industry trade group.

The Trump administration says there’s no evidence the program works, but supporters say that thinking is misguided. Some even call it a “godsend.”

When President Donald Trump signed an order last week lifting his predecessor’s restrictions on offshore leasing in the Arctic, he also revoked a decree that created the “Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area.”

Angoon elder Frank Sharp has written a new book of poems, “Rhymes and Rhythms.” The book is scheduled for release this summer.

Frank Bergstrom, Bill Corbus, Neil MacKinnon, Sam Smith and Jim Clark argued in a memo that Juneau’s mining rules needlessly duplicate the state and federal permitting process.

A Southeast cultural organization plans to create a Native arts park in Juneau. It’s part of an initiative to boost the region’s traditional arts economy.

But House members say there’s only so much they can learn from the model.

On Sunday, Gov. Bill Walker signed Senate Bill 46 into law, establishing October 25 as “African American Soldiers’ Contribution to Building the Alaska Highway Day.”

When school lets out next month, Unalaska students will say goodbye to a handful of longtime teachers and administrators.

A seismologist says the biggest aftershock recorded so far was a magnitude 4.7. She says the aftershocks won’t travel as wide an area as the earthquakes that triggered them, but Southeast communities could still feel them.

The Skagway Borough Assembly will soon have an empty seat. Assembly member Angela Grieser handed in a letter of resignation on Friday. In the letter, Greiser cites health issues as the reason behind her departure. Working a full-time job, serving on the assembly and dealing with a medical recovery has been too much, she said.

Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes has applied to the federal government to put several parcels in downtown Juneau into a federal trust. That could make the land sovereign, exempting it from local laws.

A major earthquake rocked Southeast Alaska and an area of the Yukon on Monday morning. The magnitude 6.2 shaker hit at 4:30 a.m. and was centered near the Haines Highway about 55 miles northwest of Skagway.