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‘Stubby squid’ saved by savvy science center aquarist

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2025/05/30

The new resident of Sitka Sound Science Center isn’t really a squid at all.

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Heavy rains bring landslides, flooding to Ketchikan

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2025/05/30

Airport weather data shows Ketchikan saw nearly seven inches of rain in the couple of days before the slide. It’s one of the wettest Mays on record in the First City.

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Scientists and Inupiaq hunters count bowhead whales....

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2025/05/30

Bowheads might be thriving as the sea ice in the Arctic declines. Past bowhead research suggests that the whales were in better physical condition in years with less sea ice.

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After Anchorage man’s ICE detention, his wife wants...

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2025/05/30

Immigration officials detained an Anchorage man originally from Peru on Friday, according to his wife, who says she’s been left in the dark about what will happen to him next.

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Amid national measles outbreaks, vaccination rates...

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2025/05/30

Information about lower rates comes as measles, once thought eliminated in the U.S., has spread among unvaccinated people, including an Anchorage child this month.

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Juneau’s Joann store closes its doors

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2025/05/30

In March, the company announced it would be closing all of its nearly 800 stores nationwide and going out of business.

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Alaska ferry engineers say they are critically...

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2025/05/30

Meagan Nye doesn’t always know when or if her workweek will end. She’s an engineer on the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Columbia. She is supposed to work two-week shifts at sea. But more and more often, those two weeks will turn into six. “I love my job, but I don’t want to be there…

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Judge rules that Alaska may limit sales of...

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2025/05/30

The ruling may end a legal challenge that has persisted since 2023 and means those products are restricted to marijuana retailers here.

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Sitkans reject ballot proposition to cap cruise traffic

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2025/05/30

Sitka voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have capped the number of cruise visitors beginning next year.

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An affordable housing project in Juneau hinged on...

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2025/05/29

The nonprofit was expected to break ground in April for a three-story building with 51 long-term housing units. But the Trump administration pulled a key grant and Congress nixed earmarked funds.

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Alaska Legislature makes progress on aid package for...

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2025/05/29

Bills intended to give incremental relief to fishers passed this session, while more substantive bills will be considered next year amid tough fiscal challenges.

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Murkowski says pushing health care, disaster costs to...

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2025/05/29

Murkowski said she is particularly concerned about looming cuts to Medicaid after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a tax and spending bill that would pay for sweeping tax cuts in part by reducing federal spending on Medicaid, among other programs.

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The Juneau School District will pay for more of local...

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2025/05/29

After multiple meetings and extended debate, the school board has agreed to fund more of the Lingít language immersion program in the upcoming school year – even amid statewide school budgeting concerns.

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UAS launches glacial outburst flood website for...

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2025/05/29

The website is intended to help residents understand and plan for the floods.

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Alaska state budget and other bills head to Gov. Mike...

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2025/05/29

According to legislative records, the state’s operating, capital and mental health budgets were transmitted to the governor on Tuesday, giving the governor until June 19 to veto the bills or sign them into law.

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Coastal Alaskans see commercial fishing limits as a...

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2025/05/28

Indigenous leaders across the Gulf say it’s imperative that Alaska legislators pass reforms to the state law that they blame for the mess: a landmark 1973 statute that effectively prevents many residents of those coastal villages from earning a living by fishing for salmon.

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Southeast Alaska business owners less optimistic amid...

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2025/05/28

The survey shows that almost half of the businesses that participated expect recent federal actions to negatively impact their operations.

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Carol Pickett Hull remembered for lasting influence...

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2025/05/23

Fans of traditional Native games credit her for helping to build them into the success they are today.

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Juneau Assembly considers seasonal sales tax to...

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2025/05/23

Some Assembly members say the change would allow residents to exempt food and utilities from local taxes while keeping the city’s overall sales tax revenue mostly intact.

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Restraining order on Alaska bear cull to be in place...

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2025/05/23

The department will be prohibited from conducting its planned bear cull in the Mulchatna caribou herd range until it corrects the legal flaws identified in a March 14 ruling issued by a different judge.

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