In Gustavus, a remote city of about 450 residents, the owner of a small independent grocery makes the 14-hour round-trip journey by boat to Juneau to bring much-needed supplies back to his customers.

A type of big, deep-ocean fish rarely seen at the water s surface was found washed ashore Thursday in Gustavus in Southeast Alaska, the National Park Service reported.

Without the steel float, commercial and recreational boaters have been sharing 350 feet of timber floats in the Gustavus harbor. The state paid about $30,000 to rebuild two timber sections that ...