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Juneau Assembly highlights: ballot questions, affordable housing and trash bears
Despite a delay due to a downtown power outage on Monday night, the Juneau Assembly met for a regular meeting to consider key topics for this fall’s local election, leasing city land for affordable housing and hear public testimony. Here are some highlights from the meeting:. • The Juneau...
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Power outage impacts downtown Juneau and Thane, delays Assembly meeting
Electricity in downtown Juneau and Thane went out just before 6 p.m. on Monday. The outage delayed a Juneau Assembly meeting for an hour. Alaska Electric Light and Power Company posted on Facebook around 6 p.m. that the outage affected the downtown area and a crew is responding. AEL&P’s Alec Mesdag told KTOO a transmission line feeding a substation that powers much of downtown experienced an outage, and the company was working to reroute power to that substation. Mesdag said he expected power to come on shortly after 7 p.m.
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2027 Juneau Affordable Housing Fund Application Opens to Developers on July 27
2027 Juneau Affordable Housing Fund Application Opens to Developers on July 27. The next round of applications for the Juneau Affordable Housing Fund will go out for competition on Monday, July 27, 2026, for projects that create affordable and middle-income housing opportunities. Developers are encouraged to apply for the $2 million competitive funding opportunity by the deadline on Monday, August 31 at 4:30 p.m. Late submissions will not be accepted.
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Structure, a nearly year-old company sets up shop in Wrangell
Structure, a nearly year-old company that plans to design, assemble and market a new system for utilities and businesses to remotely monitor their operations, is buying Ottesen’s former warehouse on Front Street and could start putting together and delivering its equipment next year. The company, established by a trio...
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Small group of Alaskans rally against Alaska LNG pipeline in Juneau
About a dozen people gathered on the Alaska State Capitol building steps in Juneau on Thursday morning to oppose a proposed liquefied natural gas pipeline while lawmakers inside debated a multibillion-dollar tax break for the project. The Alaska LNG project is proposed by Glenfarne Group, a private development firm headquartered...
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Huna Totem plans to scale down cruise ship dock project as cost escalates by more than $100M
A cruise ship dock and development project planned for downtown Juneau will be scaled down by more than half its original size but will cost an additional $100 million. That’s according to Susan Bell, Huna Totem Corp.’s vice president of strategic initiatives. She gave an overview of the planned changes to the Juneau Assembly during a committee meeting Monday night.
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Juneau Cruise Dock Plan Shrinks by Almost Two-Thirds
Huna Totem Corporation has dramatically scaled back its plans for a private cruise ship dock in downtown Juneau, citing tariffs, rising construction costs and a yearlong legal delay. The project, known as Aak’w Landing, was originally set to include up to 50,000 square feet of multistory retail and commercial space...
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Beloved Alaska disc golf course was built around bubbling crude oil from a sealed-off tank area
Crude oil has been discovered surfacing near popular trails in a historic park in Juneau, Alaska, believed to be coming from an old tank known as Day Oil Tank Number 8. In Juneau, Alaska, a popular public park is showing how contamination from long-closed industry can remain hidden for decades before reappearing in ordinary community spaces.
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Sealaska tackles massive project to protect Juneau-area communities from catastrophe
Juneau, Alaska — Construction teams are working fast to keep downstream communities safe from glacial outburst flooding. Every August, the Mendenhall Valley above Juneau, Alaska, grapples with flooding – sometimes catastrophic – when the Suicide Basin dammed within the Mendenhall Glacier releases rainwater and snowmelt downst. This...
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Crude oil surfaced at historic Treadwell Mine. The state plans to study it.
A short walk down the trail from the end of St. Anns Avenue on Douglas Island, a bright orange plastic fence circles the site of an old oil tank in the Treadwell Mine complex. Juneau’s historic Treadwell Gold Mine is a beloved city park with trails and a nine-hole frisbee golf course weaving through the ruins. Hole two was placed between the graffiti-covered concrete remains of the Central Power Plant and the ragged metal rim of an old oil tank where crude oil burbled up. This summer, the state plans to investigate how far the pollution has spread so it can get cleaned up.
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Forest Service admits Herbert Glacier cabin cancelled due to mining interests, after previously denying it
The U.S. Forest Service is now saying mining interests played an important role in its decision to cancel a recreational cabin project near Juneau’s Herbert Glacier, after denying it months ago. The public-use cabin was a popular idea among locals and would have been part of the Alaska Cabins...
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Changes to Juneau Costco’s shipping service expected to hurt small businesses in outlying Southeast communities
Juneau’s Costco might be the smallest in the world, but it has an outsized impact on many outlying Southeast Alaska communities that rely on it for supplies. However, a soon-to-be change in its shipping services is expected to make it more difficult and expensive for small businesses to get products to their towns.
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Grande Portage Resources Advances Ongoing Project Studies and Fieldwork to Support New Amalga Gold Project Development
Preparing for the Federal Environmental Review (EIS) and Permitting Process. VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 1, 2026 / Grande Portage Resources Ltd. (TSXV:GPG)(OTCQX:GPTRF)(FSE:GPB) (“Grande Portage” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide a project update for the New Amalga Gold property near Juneau, Alaska.
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AEL&P to raise Juneau electricity rates due to inflation, capital improvements
Juneau residents will see higher electricity bills starting next month. Alaska Electric Light & Power, the city’s only electric utility, filed a rate increase case on Monday with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to recover costs from infrastructure projects and inflation. The power company expects the average Juneau household,...
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Huna Totem’s new cruise dock project could be downsized due to cost hikes, tariffs
Huna Totem Corporation officials say they are full steam ahead with the plan to open downtown Juneau’s fifth cruise ship dock by 2028. That’s despite unexpected timeline delays and price hikes that may scale down the project. Susan Bell, vice president of strategic initiatives for the Alaska Native...
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New Amalga gold mine plans to ship ore from Cascade Point, no matter what happens with ferry terminal
Grande Portage Resources, Ltd., the Canadian company proposing to open the New Amalga gold mine in Juneau, announced this week that it plans to build an ore barge dock at Cascade Point regardless of whether the state moves forward with its controversial ferry terminal at the same location. The company...