Doug Cooper jumps a wave with a wave skate Thursday at Auke Lake. Wave Skating is a variation of water surfing only there is no binding holding the feet to the board.

A wildfire fueled by a gusty breeze is spreading near a scenic coastal town in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.

Responders from the state Department of Environmental Conservation say it could be months before they know if the Yukon River will suffer lasting effects from fuel spills caused by flooding.

ART, EVENTS & PERFORMANCE

JUNEAU – McGraw Custom Construction out of Sitka may lose an $11.4 million contract to build Juneau’s Downtown Transportation Center because a notice of a last minute bid reduction got to the city 32 seconds too late.

When Jim and Mary Lou King bought their Sunny Point house in 1964, it had seaweed underneath it, and they encouraged a spruce to grow as a hedge on the shore side of the house to keep the water from thumping the house at high tide.

James Hardisty, right, and Brian Davies help shape a new path through the woods and mud just off of the Sheep Creek Trail on Saturday.

It’s not often one can spend a lunch hour listening to smooth jazz on par with some of the best. Nor is it commonplace to sit at UAS enjoying good food, arts and crafts and music for little more than a couple dollars. But at the Juneau Jazz & Classics concert series, May 15 through May 24, you can. In fact anyone can. And it’s free.

Justice David H. Souter’s retirement from the Supreme Court will open a window into whether President Obama is truly a coolheaded, moderate technocrat, as claimed by Democrats, or a standard-bearer for some of the left’s most extreme ideas, as claimed by Republicans.

In response to Gershon Cohen’s letter in the May 12 edition of the Juneau Empire, I respectfully disagree. The economic downturn is worldwide and not limited to Southeast Alaska.