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Optimism for salmon prices in 2016

A new market analysis has an optimistic outlook for the 2016 salmon season — and goes a long way in explaining why Bristol Bay sockeye… Continue reading

A do-it-yourself hanging flower basket is shown.

Dirt Girl: Creating your own hanging baskets

Like most people, I think of cascading flowers when I think of hanging baskets. Despite my predilection for edibles, I like to have at least… Continue reading

A do-it-yourself hanging flower basket is shown.

Youth fishing day at Twin Lakes on June 4

The Juneau Ranger District’s annual co-hosted Family Fishing Day will be at Twin Lakes on June 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Alaska… Continue reading

Director picked for National Weather Service Alaska Region

Carven Scott has been named director of the NOAA National Weather Service’s Alaska Region in Anchorage. He started his new assignment May 15.Beginning in December… Continue reading

Grill yourself on these safety tips

It’s barbecue season, and while people are grilling up hot dogs, hamburgers and steaks, the risk of a home fire also goes up. The National… Continue reading

Two Alaska communities awarded Forest Service Wood Innovation grants

Two Alaska communities were awarded Forest Service Wood Innovation trants: the Haines Borough and the Hydaburg School District. The goal of the grants is to… Continue reading

Wild Shots

Wild Shots

Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or plant life. Send your photos to: Outdoors… Continue reading

Wild Shots

The Whale House and its art: A history

KLUKWAN — The Jilkaat Kwaan Cultural Heritage and Bald Eagle Preserve Visitor Center opened on Saturday, May 14, marking the first time in recent history… Continue reading

Looking up to devil's club at Lena Point. Photo by Kenneth Gill, aka Gillfoto.

Art in Unusual Places

The Capital City Weekly welcomes reader-submitted images of art in unusual or unexpected places. Photographers of all levels of ability are invited to send in… Continue reading

Looking up to devil's club at Lena Point. Photo by Kenneth Gill, aka Gillfoto.

Correction

In an article on the canoe expansion in Hoonah in the April 13-19 edition of the Capital City Weekly, the name of a man who… Continue reading

Hatchery recirculation workshop scheduled

SITKA — Earlier this spring, Fish Tech Professor Jim Seeland, Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems, and Douglas Island Pink and Chum partnered to host a recirculation workshop… Continue reading

Four islands closed to protect chicks

The National Park Service has temporarily closed four islands in Glacier Bay to foot traffic and instituted a minimum approach distance of 100 yards to… Continue reading

Skagway derby cancelled

Skagway derby cancelledSKAGWAY — Skagway’s Pat Moore Memorial Game Fish Derby has been cancelled for the second year in a row due to low returns… Continue reading

Arts Complex awarded $49,000 grant

The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council announced May 11 that it received a $49,473 grant from the Juneau Community Foundation’s Performing Arts Center Fund for… Continue reading

Twelfth grader Erin Buhler of TMHS got first place for Alaska in the National Jr. Duck Stamp competition.

TMHS student wins duck stamp competition

Thunder Mountain High School 11th grade exchange student Rosa Annina Hagedorn of Berlin has won “Best in Show” for Alaska in the National Jr. Duck… Continue reading

Twelfth grader Erin Buhler of TMHS got first place for Alaska in the National Jr. Duck Stamp competition.
Christy NaMee Eriksen, owner of Kindred post, performs one of her poems as Guy Unzicker accompanies her at a Tiny Post Office concert in September 2015. Eriksen this year received a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award. She'll use that award to create videos of her performing new and revised poems. Photo by Mary Catharine Martin.

Five Southeast artists receive Rasmuson awards

Five Southeast Alaskans received individual artist awards from the Rasmuson Foundation this year — Juneau photographer Ben Huff, Juneau photographer Patrice Aphrodite Helmar, Juneau poet… Continue reading

Christy NaMee Eriksen, owner of Kindred post, performs one of her poems as Guy Unzicker accompanies her at a Tiny Post Office concert in September 2015. Eriksen this year received a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award. She'll use that award to create videos of her performing new and revised poems. Photo by Mary Catharine Martin.
A member of the Geisan Dancers from Haines dances into the Jilkaat Kwaan Cultural Heritage and Bald Eagle Preserve Visitor Center at its grand opening on Saturday, May 14.

Cultural heritage center opens in Klukwan

KLUKWAN — The community heritage center has been a long time coming for Klukwan, and they weren’t going to let 86-degree heat stop them from… Continue reading

A member of the Geisan Dancers from Haines dances into the Jilkaat Kwaan Cultural Heritage and Bald Eagle Preserve Visitor Center at its grand opening on Saturday, May 14.

Writers’ Weir: Outhouse Spider

You live with a part of meI cannot keep company with.Among snorts, sprays and smells,after disrobing and unloading,I leave you each morningwith yesterday’s remnantsin the… Continue reading

JAHC offers art walks

Explore Juneau’s downtown public art collection with the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council, which is offering guided tours this summer, led by local artists. Learn… Continue reading

Jeff Lund on work vs. luck

I recently read an article in The Atlantic about the perception of luck and why it matters more than most of us think. In fact,… Continue reading