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Borough of Petersburg develops tiny home designs in hopes of easing housing market
Petersburg has a tight housing market – last year a survey found the town would need an additional 300 homes in the next decade. But a new local program aims to make it easier for people to add small homes, also known as Accessory Dwelling Units, or ADUs, to their property. The Borough of Petersburg has developed detailed, pre-permitted blueprints that are available to residents free of charge. Community Development Director Liz Cabrera said she hopes it provides people with affordable, doable housing opportunities.
Alaska’s top-heavy glaciers are approaching an irreversible tipping point
The melting of one of North America’s largest ice fields has accelerated and could soon reach an irreversible tipping point. That’s the conclusion of new research colleagues and I have published on the Juneau Icefield, which straddles the Alaska-Canada border near the Alaskan capital of Juneau. In the...
AROUND ALASKA: Affordable Housing, Nightly Blasting, and Polar Bears!
Move-in has now begun at a new affordable housing facility in downtown Juneau. KTOO reports Glory Hall's former homeless shelter and soup kitchen has been converted into seven affordable housing units. There's also a commercial space downstairs. Officials say construction took less than a year. Grants from the city and other local organizations helped fund the project in Juneau.
Damage control: U.S District Court clerk explains what will happen to Judge Joshua Kindred’s caseload
The clerk of the U.S. District Court for Alaska said in a statement today that U.S. District Court Judge Joshua M. Kindred, who resigned suddenly on Tuesday, has 77 open criminal cases with 102 defendants, as well as 148 civil cases that are open in the District of Alaska. All of the cases will be reassigned to Chief Justice Sharon Gleason, with the exception of seven cases in the Juneau division that will be assigned to Senior Judge Timothy Burgess.
Alaska Pacific University to receive millions from NASA to study microplastics
To examine microplastics in Alaska waterways, APU Chemistry and Environmental Sciences professor Dee Barker has to first filter a water sample and examine what’s left over under a microscope, identifying small particles that might be plastic. Then she has to move it to a different, infrared microscope. “And then...
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