The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory in Juneau for poor drainage areas around Montana Creek and the Mendenhall River. The advisory is in effect until 3:30 p.m. today.

Seven passengers on a 20-foot Hewescraft pleasure boat in Tee Harbor were rescued early this afternoon after putting out a mayday call and abandoning ship, the Coast Guard reported.

Former Juneau resident Laura Beth Allington Kirn died June 7, 2009, in Riverside, Calif. She was 55.

WASHINGTON – Ocean surface temperatures around the world were the warmest on record for the month of June, according to federal scientists, though they caution that one month doesn’t necessarily imply global warming.

DENALI NATIONAL PARK – PhuNuru Sherpa does not climb the world’s highest mountain for thrills. It’s his job.

Have you ever wondered what the world would be like without scientists? Ask the Republican Party. It lives in such a world. Republicans have been so successful in driving out of their party anyone who endeavors in scientific inquiry that pretty soon there won’t be anyone left who can distinguish a periodic table from a kitchen table.

Health care reform is not that hard to understand, and those who tell you otherwise most likely have an ulterior motive.

“Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree,” Carl Jung wrote in “The Undiscovered Self.” “… For every manifest case of insanity there are, in my estimation, at least ten latent cases who seldom get to the point of breaking out openly but whose views and behavior, for all their appearance of normality, are influenced by unconsciously morbid and perverse factors.”

When the U.S. attorney scandal broke in early 2007, the Bush White House contended that it had nothing to do with the matter and that the Justice Department had decided to fire eight top prosecutors because of performance issues.

In the annals of “Flights From Hell,” Continental Flight 2816 from Houston to Minneapolis isn’t the most egregious. Let’s not forget the Valentine’s Day 2007 ice storm that trapped nine fully loaded JetBlue aircraft on the tarmac tantalizingly close to the terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York for six to 10 hours.