Brian Holst News Today

A record 90+ vendors, music, search and rescue demonstration, harbor cruises among Saturday’s events.

The ink was hardly dry on the Juneau School District (JSD) FY 2025 budget passed last month before a local group filed petitions to recall the school board president, Deedie Sorensen, and vice president, Emil Mackey.

The long-postponed and necessary closure and consolidation of Juneau schools had to happen. There is no question given the huge deficit faced by the Juneau School District (JSD) and the district’s long, slow steady decline in enrollment that significant change was unavoidable and likely long overdue.

Juneau residents are staying in their homes as they age. That’s keeping the housing market tight, making it harder for young people to move here.

The economic indicators report published last month by the Juneau Economic Development Council (JEDC) is a wake-up call for our community. The findings are worrisome, and should be the #1 reference in guiding the Juneau Assembly’s priorities and actions for 2024.

Annual JEDC report also shows growing income gap, plus high housing and healthcare costs.

The state broke its 2019 record for cruise ship tourism this summer, with Alaska’s capital city recording 1.65 million passengers this year, according to figures released Thursday at a meeting

Juneau, the state's leading cruise ship port, tallied 1.65 million passengers on cruise ship manifests, a 23% bump from 2019.

Preliminary audit shows faulty practices; meanwhile, state backs off fight on “over-the-cap” funds.

Winter warming shelter among issues for new Assembly, transgender sports ban for new school board.