James Brooks is a longtime Alaska reporter, having previously worked at the Anchorage Daily News, Juneau Empire, Kodiak Mirror and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. This article originally appeared ...

In these troubled times of trade war, William McKinley is a guiding figure often invoked. Starting with his inaugural address on January 20, 2025, Donald Trump lauded one of his distant ...

The name of Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc., or RurAL CAP, has been corrected. Alaska Head Start programs are reeling after the regional federal office was suddenly closed last week ...

With those limits in place and a new cruise ship dock in the works that the city has had a lot of say in, Juneau, Alaska is taking crucial steps to manage the impacts of cruise tourism in ways ...

“We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs,” Trump said of North America’s highest peak, in Alaska, which ...

Less than a year after Juneau voters shot down a ballot initiative to ban large cruise ships on Saturdays, advocates are trying again to put hard limits on tourism’s growth. On Monday ...

The Juneau Assembly voted Monday night to approve a tidelands lease for a fifth cruise ship dock in downtown Juneau. It paves the way for the construction to move forward after a years-long process.

She has not taken that position. As Alaska faces economic shocks from a tumbling stock market and an unstable oil market, leaders of the state House of Representatives are appealing to minority ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (Island News) -- A sexual assault suspect arrested at McKinley High School was released after posting $10,000 bail. Honolulu police arrested 22-year-old Cal Muramaru on March 31.

The new proposal wouldn’t just be limiting the number of guests able to visit Juneau, however. It would also limit when ships can visit Alaska’s capital city. Included in the regulations is a ...

The second phase includes space for three new restaurants and retail spaces, an upper-level plaza, an extension of the Juneau Seawalk, and addition of two new totem poles. Construction of an Alaska ...

In Juneau, the Assembly officially approved the construction of a fifth cruise ship dock in the downtown area. The new dock will be located just off Egan Drive, near the Juneau Coast Guard Station, ...