An Alaska Airlines flight headed from Juneau to Sitka on Monday morning was struck by lightning just before landing. Passenger Kathy Fitzgerald was on board the 27-minute flight. She said the plane was briefly engulfed in a bright orange and gold flash.

Meets the 3rd Tuesday of each month, 1-2:30 p.m. at the Juneau Senior Center. Share and learn about ways to adjust to vision loss. Rides are available to the meeting, but participants must arrange for their return ride home. Contact: Laura at Southeast Alaska Independent Living (SAIL) for more info: 586-4920.

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Alaska-Canada border on Saturday. Tremors were felt in Yakutat and Juneau, according to USGS.

The Rasmuson Foundation announced their list of Individual Artist awardees, and eight Juneau projects made the list. The 50 total awards go to artists across the state, who will receive $10,000 each toward a project they have planned.

A "fjord" is a Nordic term meaning a narrow waterway surrounded by sharp cliffs. So while Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier steals most of the tourist traffic, the 27-mile-long Tracy Arm Fjord is the bigger, better and more dramatic natural gem. The inlet is ...

JUNEAU — Each year, a crush of tourists arrives in Alaska’s capital city on cruise ships to see wonders like the fast-diminishing Mendenhall Glacier. Now, long-simmering tensions over Juneau’s tourism boom are coming to a head over a new voter ...

One of lawmakers’ biggest targets this past spring was DOT’s plan to build a new ferry terminal in Juneau, roughly 30 miles north of the existing terminal in Auke Bay, in Juneau at a place called Cascade Point, which would shorten ferry runs to Haines and Skagway.

MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee home and duplex near 27th and Juneau were damaged by a fire early Monday morning, Dec. 8. Firefighters were detached to the scene around 1:15 a.m. Upon arrival, they found a heavy fire on the second floor of a home. The fire extended to a duplex next door.

JUNEAU — Over the past few months, contractors in Juneau have been constructing roughly 2 miles of temporary barriers, in hopes that they will protect against a glacial flooding phenomenon that devastated hundreds of homes last year. For two straight ...

The Alaska Department of Transportation says they’ll pay for the infrastructure regardless of whether the ferry terminal gets built.

A rush of glacial floodwater swept down Alaska’s Mendenhall River on Wednesday morning, prompting evacuation warnings in parts of Juneau, seeping through flood barriers and flowing into a few neighborhoods. The floodwaters, which broke through a dam of ...

Three months after a trial against a former Juneau chiropractor accused of sexual assault ended in mistrial, the new public defense team is asking for more time to review the case before a second trial.