8+ hour, 37+ min ago   (53+ words) Juneau Independent The Trump administration has proposed trading away a small parcel of land in Yosemite National Park in California so a private developer can gain access to the park, according to federal officials and documents reviewed by The New…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (429+ words) State and industry officials and the U.S. Coast Guard were responding on Tuesday to an unexplained oil spill roughly 60 miles southwest of Anchorage in Southcentral Alaska’s Cook Inlet. The spill, which produced a long oil sheen on the water near the…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (357+ words) The price-gouging at laundromats across CBJ has got to end. I live on a boat, and I don’t have a washer-dryer unit. Every Sunday, I gather up dirty clothes piling in the corner into a basket and drive to Foodland,…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (490+ words) It’s not a typo. The price of a gallon of gasoline in the northwest Alaska village of Shungnak was $26.82 on Friday, local residents and regional officials said, likely giving the community the dubious honor of having the most expensive gasoline…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1351+ words) Electricity rates for Upper Lynn Canal residents hang in the balance amid debate over a more-than-$100 million bill — and who should pay it. Sharp rate increases have loomed ever since damage in 2019 to a key underwater transmission cable — one of…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (339+ words) A new Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium pharmacy in the Mendenhall Mall will offer compounding services to Juneau for the first time since Ron’s Apothecary closed in 2023, occupying the same space. “We are excited to have a new offering in…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (46+ words) Juneau Independent The US has imposed 50% tariffs on some goods from Canada, and the country’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has vowed to match them “dollar for dollar” after the collapse of trade talks....

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (979+ words) For the Juneau Independent Juneau now has competitive barge service again, something Alaska's attorney general fought unsuccessfully to retain more than a decade ago, and one of its first announcements is it will transport electric vehicles. The new entrant into…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (502+ words) The national debt surpassed a record $40 trillion on Wednesday, a staggering milestone as defense costs, social programs like Social Security and Medicare and interest on the burgeoning deficit make up an enormous share of federal spending. The milestone figure was…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (527+ words) Shawn Kantola is seeking permission to keep up to 200 chickens, plus 30 other farm animals such as cows and sheep, on his 2.2 acres of property near Back Loop Road. But he says the seven family members who will be living there…...