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The Juneau School Board has selected Lisa Worl to finish out the term of Kim Poole, who recently resigned. The board Tuesday night voted for Worl, who was among six candidates for the seat, including two who had run in the fall municipal election. All six were interviewed by the board on Monday.  At Tuesday’s…

Gema G. Thomas is also operator of Peer Amid Beads and Southeast Artworks.

How do you get 135 third, fourth and fifth graders to learn and apply Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion? Have them design and build paper roller coasters.

Douglas bar owner must also pay back over $54,700

When disaster strikes a Southeast Alaska community, emergency planners urge residents to rely on their own stockpiles before turning to the state’s new food caches.

A number of Southeast leaders are upset about the governor’s plan to scale back the Alaska Class Ferry project. He made his announcement Tuesday in Ketchikan. Legislators and members of an advisory board say they should have been consulted first.

Alaska’s long lost moon rocks are back in Juneau and on display at the State Museum through at least the end of the month. The rocks actually are tiny fragments of moon dust collected by Apollo 11 astronauts in July 1969, and later presented to Governor Keith Miller by President Richard Nixon. In 1973, the…

When Juneau voters approved an extension of the city’s temporary one-percent sales tax and a $25 million bond proposition earlier this year, it created a dilemma members of the CBJ Assembly are probably happy to have: When to fund the nearly 20 projects identified in both ballot measures? Engineering Director Rorie Watt presented a preliminary…

Angoon Democratic Senator Albert Kookesh ends his 18-year career at the Capitol when the Legislature is sworn in this January. But the longtime Southeast Alaska politician still has plenty on his plate.

The City and Borough of Juneau had a smaller than expected budget deficit last fiscal year, largely because of belt tightening by the city manager’s office. CBJ Finance Director Bob Bartholomew on Wednesday told the Juneau Assembly Finance Committee that the city used $3.3 million in fund balance in fiscal year 2012, which ended in…

The Juneau Assembly is now on record as supporting an extension of electric power to Cascade Point at the end of Glacier Highway, also known as Veterans Memorial Highway. A resolution adopted at a special meeting Wednesday says an extension of power would support economic and housing development, as well as public safety out the…

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says the state will immediately begin negotiations with the Ketchikan shipyard to design the first of at least two smaller ferries, rather than the 350-foot ship that had been planned.

The district’s budget committee will hold seven meetings between January 15th and February 26th before making recommendations to the Board of Education on March 5th.

The Juneau Assembly has given its tentative blessing to a Municipal Drinking Walter Supply Plan.

The Juneau Assembly will consider a resolution expressing support for electric power to the end of Glacier Highway at a special meeting on Wednesday.

The survivor of a boating accident that recently killed two Juneau men has died.

There’s a baby boom going on with Alaska’s humpback whales. Slow-but-steady population growth is good news for the species, as well as whale-watchers. But it could be bad news for boaters, hatcheries and the herring fleet.

Juneau’s winter could be dry and cold – but not much snow, according to the National Weather Service

The Basin Road Bridge will remain closed until Dec. 6th.

In September, a key test of underwater oil-spill equipment was a spectacular failure.