Quinn White

2 days ago | alaskasnewssource.com | Justin Mattson |Quinn White

JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - For many visitors to Juneau, Mendenhall Glacier is the area’s top attraction. “Mendenhall Glacier is so key to Juneau,” Juneau Tours and Whale Watch CEO Serene Hutchinson explained. “Half our business is Mendenhall Glacier, the other half is whale watching.”Despite living in Juneau for over a decade, she said she’s always awed by the sight of the glacier. “I go to the glacier a couple times a week, and every time I go I take a photo,” she described.

1 week ago | alaskasnewssource.com | Quinn White

PALMER, Alaska (KTUU) - A Palmer couple is picking up the pieces after the greenhouse on their flower farm caught fire Monday night. “It’s pretty devastating,” Brown Dog Flower Farm Owner Ben Swimm explained. “We put so much work into the structure. “It takes an emotional toll to have put every second into something for the last three years,” he added, “and then see it go.”Swimm and his partner, Mimi Rooney, have owned Brown Dog Flower Farm since 2022.

1 week ago | alaskasnewssource.com | Quinn White

JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - Juneau is one of the world’s most popular whale watching destinations, where hundreds of thousands of visitors flock each year in hopes of spotting humpback whales from Hawaii to their summer feeding grounds in southeast Alaska’s Inside Passage. The area is believed to have the highest concentration of humpbacks in the state, with a population of over 500 whales, according to Alaska Fish and Game.

1 week ago | alaskasnewssource.com | Quinn White

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The dozens of wildlife species that call Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson home can make driving through it feel like being on a safari. But some days, those critters can make life on base a little hectic, especially the black bears. “Bears will be bears,” JBER Conservation Law Enforcement Chief Officer James Wendland said. “We’ve got a lot of them that get into tipsters and dumpsters … bears are very quick to adapt.”Black bears can be a “pawful” for Wendland’s team.

2 weeks ago | alaskasnewssource.com | Quinn White

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - With one week left in the Anchorage Chamber Citywide Cleanup, Alaska’s News Source hit the streets to ask residents if they feel the community is looking any cleaner. The event runs through May 31. More information on how to participate is available online. See a spelling or grammar error? Report it to [email protected] 2025 KTUU. All rights reserved.