Alaska Native language expert X̱’unei Lance Twitchell was honored with a legislative citation at the Alaska State Capitol on Saturday.

Juneau’s Auke Bay Post 25 got their first taste of the 2025 Alaska Legion Baseball road competition over the weekend, playing four games in three days in the Lance Coz Wood Bat Tournament at Kenai before starting league play.

Alaska Marine Highway System engineers have approved a new three-year contract with the state of Alaska.

A man died from injuries after falling more than 100 feet off the Salmon Creek Trail on Saturday.

About 140 runners were foolish enough to race on Friday, the night of the summer solstice.

Nine bands, the Eagle Raven Dance Group, Native Youth Olympics, and a DJ drew about 100 people to the first Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 70 Summer Solstice Music Festival at Áak’w Landing Saturday.

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Tlingit and Haida Central Council plans to renovate the former Floyd Dryden Middle School, open a new storefront in downtown Juneau, and continue work toward a new tribal education campus.

A four-day simulation of a foreign terrorist incident is set to start throughout Juneau on Sunday, with National Guard members from other states joining local emergency responders in the exercise. https://t.co/bICsgR9Lge

It will be a game the JDHS soccer boys can look back on and be proud of their efforts, but for now it will hurt after a 3-2 loss in extra time on Friday to the West Anchorage Eagles in the ASAA/First National Bank Soccer State Championships semifinals.

The question of whether ballot measures to lower the cap on property taxes, eliminate sales taxes on food and utilities, and reestablish a preference for in-person local elections now rests on a count of signatures by the city clerk’s office.

The Juneau Symphony will perform its first music by an Indigenous composer and two songs by local folk singer Annie Bartholomew rearranged for orchestra as part of its “Homelands” concert Saturday and Sunday at JDHS.

The Crimson Bears baseball team opened the Region V Championships at Ketchikan with a 10-5 win over the Kings and will face Southeast Conference regular-season winner Sitka on Friday.

As well as the JDHS boys upperclassmen played Thursday in their opening game of the 2025 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Soccer State Championships at Wasilla High School the season came down to freshman keeper Callen Walker.

Chrishtianna (Chrish) Newell, a 2012 JJDHS graduate, always had a particular strong point in sports since her Crimson Bears soccer days, which is now perfected into the competitive world of obstacle endurance contests of Spartan Deka and HYROX.

Longtime Juneau referee Robert Sims, 75, was named the 2024-25 Alaska Sports Official of the Year recently by a joint committee of members from the Alaska School Activities Association and the National Federation of State High School Associations.

CBJ tries to get residential property along the Mendenhall River for a park, teachers accept an arbitrator’s contract suggestion and Gov. Frank Murkowski touts getting rid of traditional pensions for public employees in this week’s Empire Archives.

Sitka voters in Wednesday’s special election turned down a ballot proposition to limit cruise ship tourism by a more than 2-to-1 margin. Story by the Daily Sitka Sentinel.

A sharp drop in optimism among businesses due largely to uncertainties created by Trump administration policies is among the key findings of an annual “Southeast Alaska Business Climate Report” report released Tuesday.

The University of Alaska Southeast and the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center launched a flood preparedness website on Wednesday to help Juneau residents prepare for this year’s Suicide Basin release.