ART, EVENTS & PERFORMANCE

On the heels of a springtime flood that damaged homes and businesses, the city of Eagle is bracing for a tough tourist year.

Plates, jeans, jackets, hats: Used is as good as new when you’re down on your luck. But there are exceptions. So when Janice Davis, who is coordinating a group fundraising trip to Juneau, asked Glory Hole director Mariya Lovishchuk what new items she needed at the downtown homeless shelter and soup kitchen, underwear quickly sprung to mind.

Rising sea levels, sweltering temperatures, deeper droughts, and heavier downpours – global warming’s serious effects are already here and getting worse, the Obama administration warned on Tuesday in the grimmest, most urgent language on climate change ever to come out of any White House.

Juneau Arts & Humanities Council has annoucned the schedule for this summer’s free open-air concerts.

Last year, at Sealaska Corporation’s annual meeting in San Francisco, I addressed the company’s board of directors regarding a flawed and unjust election system that utilizes discretionary votes to re-seat incumbent directors again and again and again. Some have been in there for nearly 40 years!

There is now a unique opportunity for Alaska and British Columbia to come together and ensure the long-term productivity of the Taku River and its fisheries.

Don’t throw that mask away just yet. The World Health Organization declared the swine flu – or H1N1 – outbreak a pandemic, meaning the virus is now a global risk. The disease has spread to 74 countries, with nearly 30,000 cases confirmed and many more suspected but not reported.

A federal appeals court struck a blow for justice Monday when it awarded the maximum allowable punitive damages in the Exxon Valdez oil spill case – and told Exxon Mobil to pay interest dating back to 1996.

ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has doubled the bag and possession limits for anglers seeking red salmon on a popular section of the Kenai River.