Juneau News

The "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case isn't quite over. In this March 19, 2007 file photo, students with the group 'Sensible Drug Policy' demonstrate in... In this March 19, 2007 file photo, students with the group ...

The Alaska Board of Game is taking proposals for hunting and trapping regulation changes in southeast Alaska.

Eleven Juneau Youth Football League Cheerleaders recently attended three days of cheer camp, July 14-16, in Wasilla.

An airline serving small communities in Southeast Alaska has been grounded by the federal government for an indefinite period of time.

A Juneau man shot and injured a bear who he says had entered his residence. Local police haven't identified him.

The "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case isn't quite over. Juneau attorney Doug Mertz told the Juneau Empire that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the case in September.

The Alaska Earthquake Information Center is reporting a small earthquake in southeast Alaska.

What began 14 years ago as a community barbecue celebrating the one-millionth pound of processed salmon has since grown into a Southeast Alaska festival dedicated to chums - both the aquatic and human kind.

MaryAnn Nelson, of Angoon, and Harry Hewson, of Metlakatla, will marry at 6 p.m. today, July 18, at the Salvation Army Church in Juneau.

Legislators worked around the clock debating, researching and planning for what has been hailed a historic vote.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt will see a demonstration of long-distance health services in Alaska.

Juneau police and fire officials and state police reported: Impounded vehicle: * At about 10:13 a.m. Sunday, a 1995 Eagle Summit was impounded for being abandoned along Mendenhall Loop Road.

Ketchikan city officials are hoping to convince the various cruise lines to stay a bit longer in their southeast Alaska community.

The Juneau Fire Station's front apron concrete repair project will begin at 8 a.m. Monday.

State wildlife biologists killed 14 wolf pups on the Alaska Peninsula as part of a predator control program to help a struggling caribou herd.

Returning from a day hike Thursday, Gil Burnet, 23, decided to take a shortcut down Auke Mountain and found himself trapped in a steep ravine near dark and calling for help.

A missile launched from Alaska was successfully tracked Friday by land-, sea- and space-based sensors in a test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the Boeing Co.

Federal investigators will release a final report on the grounding last year of a cruise ship near Juneau.

From 2004 through 2006, the number of runaways reported to police annually ranged between 280 and 290.

The public now knows more facts about the long-debated access road problems facing Juneau.