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Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Friday night, saw Team Juneau go up against Team World for the Juneau Huskies Alumni Game. The Alumni game serves as a fundraiser to help pay for new equipment and other expenses for the Juneau Huskies. By the end of the game, they raised around $13,000 dollars for next season.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Airport parking will be severely limited over the summer as construction takes place in all four parking lots. Passengers traveling through JIA this summer are strongly encouraged to catch a ride from family and friends or use ground transportation options like taxis, rideshares, and public transit.

Officer Don Ward with 7 years of service (left) and Officer Jim Esbenshade with 14 years of service (right) both retired from JPD on Tuesday. (Photo credit Jordan Lewis/KINY) Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - On May 30, Officer Don Ward with 7 years of service, and Officer Jim Esbenshade with 14 years of service both retired from JPD.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Cancer Connection, a nonprofit organization in Juneau, is holding its annual walk for National Cancer Survivor Day on Jun. 4. Jenna O'fontanella joined Capital Chat to talk about Cancer Connection's annual event. "Sunday, from 11 to 1, a national holiday that's celebrated actually all over the...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Juneau’s planning commission is not supporting the city’s new hazard maps. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is back in Alaska. And the rate of deaths due to drinking alcohol nearly doubled over a two year period in Alaska.

School is out for summer in Juneau. For retiring teachers, principals and other school staff, this end of the year is especially bittersweet. Over the last two decades or more, they’ve watched the district expand to new campuses, weather the pandemic and incorporate Alaska Native language and culture into the curriculum.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - At about 12:14 a.m. on May 27th, 2023, JPD received a report that two people were injured after being involved in a fight. A 24-year-old female and 19-year-old Erin Rorem got into an altercation while walking down Davis Avenue to a friend’s house together. Rorem struck the 24-year-old female on the forearm with a knife. A 22-year-old male tried to break up the fight. He was cut on the hand with the knife. An ambulance responded to treat both of the victim’s non-life-threatening injuries.

The fourth of July weekend of 1980 found the NGJB in Juneau, Alaska, on the occasion of the city’s centennial celebration. The band’s initial impression was that the locals were a bit short on enthusiasm for our arrival. Flight delays put us on the ground at about 11:59 p.m. The airport custodian had instructions to close up at midnight so he proceeded to lock the door while the band on the outside peered through the glass door at the luggage and instruments on the inside. The custodian’s efforts to lock the door were frustrated by the drummer’s foot in the crack. A pushing and yelling match ensued and justice prevailed as the seven hefty and well-lubricated musicians were able to shove their way in and recover their belongings. The band’s suggestions as to where the door keeper could put his keys would have shocked Sarah Palin.

At a Coast Guard change-of-command ceremony on Thursday, about 30 active-duty Coast Guardsmen gathered with some retirees, friends, and family under a tent at the Juneau docks. Young service members, wearing light blue uniforms and white caps, stood at attention while officers sent one officer off and welcomed another to town.

A Montana man was sentenced on May 19, 2023, for assaulting a flight crew member on a commercial airline flight while the plane was landing at the Juneau airport. According to court documents, on April 1, 2023, Eric Richard Bruns, 42, was a passenger aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 67 with service from Sitka, Alaska to Juneau, Alaska. While the aircraft was in flight, Bruns started acting erratically and refused crew members instructions to remain seated while the plane was on approach to the Juneau airport. Bruns remained standing in the aisle and began moving towards the front of the aircraft and was physically obstructed by the flight crew member. Bruns made verbal threats to assault the flight crew member and physically tried to shove his way past the flight crew member, striking the crew member with his hands. At that time, while the aircraft was landing at the Juneau airport, two federal law enforcement officers and a civilian assisted the flight crew member and physically restrained Bruns in an unoccupied seat until the plane arrived at the gate.

Jensen-Olson Arboretum will be open on Memorial Day, May 29, in addition to regular Saturday and Sunday hours. On May 27, Alaska Public Gardens Day will be celebrated with free admission to JOA's Primula Collection. JOA is a free public display garden open year-round, visit their website for more information.Visit here for more details.

When spring finally came, it came in a rush. Cottonwood and alder leaves fairly leaped from the buds and grew rapidly toward full size. I like the soft, light-green foliage contrasting with the somber greens of the conifers. The delicate fragrance of cottonwood delighted our olfactory sense. So did the sweet floral aroma of skunk cabbage, and beetles thronged to the pollen-bearing flowers. Depending where one walked, a variety of flowers showed their colors: pink nagoon and salmonberry, white starflower and baneberry, purplish lupine, golden marsh marigold, creamy-white elderberry, and others. On some forest edges trailing black current shrubs were covered with flowers — if they get pollinated the.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Petersburg celebrates its heritage with the Little Norway Festival. A Crooked Creek man has been sentenced for domestic abuse homicide. And Juneau has cut its emissions by 30%, and is considering ways to cut more.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau School District (JSD) is pleased to announce that Eldri Westmoreland has been chosen as the first permanent principal for the Tlingit Culture, Language and Literacy (TCLL) program. TCLL is a place-based, cultural-based JSD optional program where the Tlingit language and culture are celebrated, respected,...

Juneau’s planning commission has recommended that the Assembly nix a proposed ordinance to regulate property development in areas of downtown Juneau that are prone to avalanches or landslides. Residents who testified at Tuesday night’s meeting overwhelmingly opposed the policy, saying it could create new financial burdens for homeowners.

The Assembly will hold a public hearing on June 12 on a proposed registration program for short-term rental operators. During a March 1 Finance Committee meeting, the Assembly received an update on the use of short-term rentals in Juneau.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The City and Borough of Juneau Parks & Recreation Department will start accepting vending permit applications for Fourth of July festivities at Savikko Park on Friday, May 26 at 8 a.m. All permits are issued on a first-come, first-serve basis. The deadline to apply is Jun....

The Sealaska Heritage Institute has proposed renaming the part of South Seward Street that runs through its campus. President Rosita Worl announced the proposal in April at a ceremony celebrating the installation of Kootéeyaa Deiyí, the totem pole trail along Juneau’s waterfront. “The city recommends that we...

Independent Rep. Josiah Patkotak of Utqiagvik is running to become the next mayor of the North Slope Borough and said he’s prepared to resign his seat in the Alaska Legislature if he wins the October municipal election. Paktotak’s decision was made public via a Monday filing with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. The municipal election […] The post America’s farthest-north state representative is planning to leave the Alaska Capitol appeared first on Alaska Beacon.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Brandi Billings and Jessica Geary joined Capital Chat to advocate for this Sunday's Safe Grad party. May 28 is the annual Safe Grad party. It will take place at the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) Recreation Center. Seniors are free and guests are $10. Attendees should...