Ian Dickson, KTOO - Juneau

Ian Dickson, KTOO - Juneau
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a wrecked plane in a grassy area, near mountains

Pilot of small plane seriously injured in crash near Juneau

The plane crashed Sunday evening near Excursion Inlet. Just the pilot was onboard.
A white and black Alaska husky

Found: Sled dog Jimbo from Richie Diehl’s team located in an Anchorage backyard

Race officials say Jimbo has eaten a meal and is in "good health."
The shadow of a person looks at green aurora.

For once, clearing skies in Juneau pull back curtain on brilliant aurora

The lights appeared amid a skein of clouds that, for once, had opened just enough. Many who passed up sleep to see the aurora posted images to social media showing intense green waves, purple spikes and ribbons of deep red dancing over the mountains and Gastineau Channel.

How a Juneau subdivision came to be at ‘unacceptable’ risk for a destructive avalanche

The 1962 avalanche was what started the series of studies that show a path could generate avalanches capable of leveling a Juneau neighborhood — and that such avalanches should be expected every few decades.
Two peopple in black jckets embracec in the woods, while about a dozen onlookers look on. There is a white cross on the side

‘It’s everybody’s history’: Bill would protect Unangax̂ cemetery at Funter Bay internment camp

The cemetery holds the graves of Unangan people who died during World War II after the U.S. government forcibly removed them from the Pribilof Islands took them to the Southeast rainforest with only one bag apiece and no hunting or fishing gear.