Alaska rocked by 7.0-magnitude quake
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The Alaska Department of Transportation says they’ll pay for the infrastructure regardless of whether the ferry terminal gets built.
Someone in Juneau captured Saturday’s magnitude 7.0 quake near Yakutat on camera. Juneau is more than 350 miles from the quake’s epicenter, according to USGS.Scientists are calling it the 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake.
Juneau celebrated a great cruise season in 2025, according to Alexandra Pierce, tourism director of the City and Borough of Juneau (CBJ). As one of the main cruise destinations in Alaska, the port welcomed a steady number of visitors while working to enhance their experience on land.
The 2026 Alaska season will begin in mid-April with Holland America Line sending Noordam as the first and one of the last ships to arrive in the Inner Passage. Juneau will welcome its first vessel of the season, Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Bliss, on April 28, 2026.
The university system will host listening sessions in Juneau, Fairbanks and Anchorage this week. There's also a survey.
Schwartz-Yeager lives in Wrangell, but paints up and down the coast, from Southeast Alaska to Prince William Sound to Homer. She spent much of the fall working in Juneau ahead of her show. One new piece depicts local boats preparing for the recent red crab opener.
A powerful, magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck in a remote area near the border between Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon on