Yvonne Krumrey

This is the sixth person held at Lemon Creek under a federal custody hold for immigration purposes since October.

Snow falls on Capital City Fire/Rescue’s downtown station in Juneau on Dec. 17, 2020. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)

A jury found Brent Clancy guilty of physically assaulting his stepdaughter in April, and at a sentencing hearing last week, the presiding judge said he had little faith in Clancy’s ability to change.

An old wooden house that was once a part of a dairy farm in the early 1900s has been collapsing slowly for decades. But when it was still mostly upright 30 years ago, a Microsoft employee visited Juneau, took a photo of the cabin and it became a background option for Windows Millennium Edition in 2000.

A Capital City Fire/Rescue truck. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)

Holly Huber is the first Miss Alaska USA from Juneau. After being crowned this summer, she’s currently competing on a national stage in Miami. The Miss USA competition is running this week, and Miss USA 2026 will be crowned Thursday evening. This was her 8th year doing the Miss Alaska USA pageant. She was crowned Miss Alaska Volunteer in 2024. Huber came to KTOO earlier this month to talk about what it takes to compete on the national level.

A group of volunteers has been restoring cemeteries on Douglas Island in Juneau for five years. They’ve beat back invading plants, and uncovered and righted headstones.

T’set Kwei Vera Starbard is an Emmy-nominated writer who has written six plays and multiple episodes of shows like Molly of Denali and Alaska Daily. Starbard is the librettist for Ḵutulagaaw — an opera about the 1802 battles between Lingít people and Russian invaders in Southeast Alaska. That means she wrote the script, which language teacher X̱’unei Lance Twitchell translated, and composer Ed Littlefield put to music. The production premiers at Thunder Mountain Middle School on Friday Sept. 11. The show runs through Sept. 20.

Kake Tribal Council President Joel Jackson, second from left, prepares to testify to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Public Lands. Photo: Liz Ruskin

Sealaska Heritage Institute President Kaaháni Rosita Worl gives a speech during the official Navy apology for the 1882 bombardment of Angoon. Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)