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The Juneau School District and the Juneau Education Association are more than two months into contract negotiations as the union pushes for better pay and benefits while the district grapples with uncertain state funding.

The warning comes as the union negotiates wages with the City and Borough of Juneau and as the busy summer tourism season ramps up.

The project is in cooperation with Goldbelt Incorporated, a local Alaska Native corporation, which owns the land on and adjacent to where the study would occur.

Members of an anti-abortion group called Alaskans for Life who gathered on Thursday said they didn’t have specific demands for legislators. Instead, they took to the steps of the Capitol to spread awareness for their cause.

The new version of House Bill 57, a House-approved bill requiring school districts to regulate student cellphone use, now includes a $700 boost to basic school funding.

Despite obvious activity going on in the area owned by Goldbelt Incorporated, Mayor Beth Weldon told a Royal Caribbean Group representative that no one at the city has been informed about their plans for development on Douglas Island.

A memo set to appear before Congress on Monday will ask lawmakers to rescind $1.1 billion in funds that support public media nationwide and heavily subsidize public radio stations and television stations throughout Alaska.

New calls to raise Alaska’s mining taxes and royalties come as state officials face difficult fiscal decisions.

In an interview with KHNS, Ranj Pillai said Alaskan’s support for Canada has been widely appreciated.

Jean Kashikov is one of four UA students, and hundreds nationwide, who recently had their status terminated in the federal Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS.

Alaskans and others tracking America’s stance toward the Arctic are waiting for details of President Trump’s new policy.

Chancellor Aparna Palmer is monitoring several avenues that may be affected by President Trump’s executive orders as other universities face funding freezes and student deportations.

The hour-long public meeting will begin at noon on Thursday at City Hall in the Assembly Chambers.

Pending further appeals, Friday’s decision means Fairbanks pilot Kenneth Jouppi must give up his Cessna 206 as punishment for ignoring beer loaded onto a flight routed to the dry village of Beaver in 2012.

Under the plan approved by the hospital board, the clinic will remain at the same location and its current employees will continue to oversee medical services. Clinic employees will become hospital employees and the clinic will be renamed Bartlett Family Medicine.

A jury concluded that The New York Times did not libel former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who had argued that an error in a 2017 Times editorial damaged her reputation.

Concerns over the state’s ability to pay for the $1,000 increase in basic funding, given the state’s worsening fiscal outlook, played a role in the failed override vote.

The comprehensive plan is designed to help the city determine how the community wants to see Juneau change and grow over the next two decades.

First elected in 2021, Will Muldoon suddenly resigned from the Juneau School District Board of Education on Monday.

Alaska officials say the changes could make fishing less safe and undermine science critical to managing fisheries.