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The proposal has revived concern over legacy contamination from ore shipping in the local port, and how to ensure it doesn’t continue.

Federal immigration officials detained and deported Sonia Espinoza Arriaga and two of her three sons, ages 5 and 16. As of Thursday, her oldest son remains in custody at an ICE detention center in Washington.

The park’s reconstruction is expected to start on March 2 and last through April of 2027.

Under Alaska law, adoption ends the legal relationship between children and birth families — including siblings. Foster youth have called for changes to the law to preserve contact.

New CCFR Chief Tom Hatley wants to rebuild morale and reshape the culture inside the department.

The airport told the Juneau Assembly about the vehicle issues and more during a joint finance committee meeting Wednesday night, when the Assembly also met with Bartlett Regional Hospital’s board.

The City and Borough of Juneau has reached a collective bargaining agreement with the union that represents Juneau police – eight months after the last contract expired and a year after negotiations began.

The nearly $90 billion Permanent Fund is outperforming similar large funds on a risk-adjusted basis, investment consultants with the firm Callan told lawmakers this week.

Students from far flung places like Greenland, Indonesia and Palestine are spending a school year in Alaska. They met in Juneau earlier this month for a student orientation.

The city has indicated it can’t afford to sponsor the program, and most View Drive residents say they’re not interested in shouldering the cost.

A Juneau man who had been staying at a local shelter for unhoused people has not been seen by staff in more than two weeks and has been reported missing. 

The project would sit on a 1-acre empty lot next to the downtown library and parking garage and includes three large interactive theaters/rides, a retail store and some office space.

Language educators in Juneau are working to create a Master’s in Teaching program for Indigenous languages at the University of Alaska Southeast. It would be the first of its kind in Alaska. 

Clergy, immigration attorneys and advocates raised concerns about increased ICE operations in Alaska, particularly the detention of minors.

The new version strips out an unpopular sales tax and substantially rewrites the state’s oil and gas tax code to extract more revenue from the industry.

The Juneau Assembly will use the results to figure out how to mend the estimated $10 to $12 million recurring hole in the city’s budget resulting from last fall’s ballot initiatives.

Two candidates are already based in Juneau, and all three have experience with education in Alaska.

State officials are calling it a win for Alaska’s economic sovereignty, but some residents are worried about losing longstanding subsistence rights.

Juneau’s City Manager Katie Koester shared the news at a Juneau Assembly committee meeting Monday night. She called the Army Corps’ change of position deeply frustrating.

For now, with the failure of a three-quarters vote necessary to access state savings, the bill has no way to pay for the expenses it calls for.