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At least one refugee family in Juneau has received a notice from the Trump administration ordering them to leave the country immediately or face prosecution, while at least four foreigners affiliated ...

It’s been a free-for-all jamboree for a half-century, yet somehow the 50th annual Alaska Folk Festival still achieved the ...

Spring flowers have co-evolved with insect pollinators for a long time. The flowers require pollen delivery to set seed. To ...

A widespread power outage due to two damaged pole tops affected the Mendenhall Valley, airport area, Auke Bay and north of Juneau on Sunday night, with repairs expected to be made by midnight, ...

The trial took place three years later. In addition to Palin, the other key witness was James Bennet, who in 2017 was the head of the Times editorial page and had inserted the inaccurate language. On ...

These forecasts are courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute and available online, along with more data, at The listings below will be updated and published weekly until ...

In the last two decades, the Petersburg High School Vikings track and field team has had roughly 20 individual state champions, a multitude of podium finishes and handfuls of third, fourth and top-ten ...

For too long Juneau’s budgeting approach has started in the wrong place — asking how much revenue the city can raise, rather than how much it should spend. As a result, taxpayers are shouldering ...

The latest version of the state’s capital budget reappropriates approximately $37 million from designated Juneau Access funds for use as federal match for transportation projects all over Alaska. And ...

Kodiak junior Tina Timu won the boys shot put with a 43’7.75” throw. JDHS senior’s Denali Schijvens went 35’1.25, Gunner Tarver 34’8 and Eero Woolford 34’2.75 to lead the Crimson Bears. Timu also won ...

The Alaska Legislature on Friday passed a major increase to K-12 education funding, worth $1,000 in the state’s per-student ...