JUNEAU — The U.S. Forest Service closed Glacier Spur Road following an encounter with a bear sow this Friday afternoon. A Forest Service employee sprayed the bear with pepper spray after it lunged at him, according to Forest Service officials.
Acting District Ranger Barbara Adams said as a safety precaution the road, which leads to the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center and trails in the
vicinity, will be closed from 8 p.m. today and will reopen at 8a.m. Saturday morning.

ANCHORAGE — A chance to have dinner with former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has swelled the coffers of an organization that aids wounded veterans.

JUNEAU — The Alaska Labor Department reports the unemployment rate in August was 8.3 percent.

The Alaska Labor Department reports the unemployment rate in August was 8.3 percent.

Somewhere, in the tumultuous hills of adolescence and into the straight stretches of a middle-age adult, I lost my belief in heroes and all they represent. And then, in one 14-hour period along a highway in Canada, they came to life again.

Juneau-Douglas cruised to a 3-1 win over Mt. Edgecumbe in the Crimson Bears’ volleyball home opener Thursday at Juneau-Douglas High School.

The JV football Bears improved to 3-2, 3-1 after a 19-6 win over North Pole on Saturday.

Bob Young, of Juneau, made a hole in one at Mendenhall Golf Course on Sept. 6 on the eighth hole with a 5 wood, witnesssed by his wife, Orlinda Kittredge.