Pete Carran, an Alaska hall of fame radio journalist for more than five decades who spent most of his career in Juneau, died Wednesday at the age of 77.

Carran, who spent 15 years in Anchorage working in radio and television after being honorably discharged from the military in the late 1960s, moved to Juneau in 1984 shortly after covering his first legislative session here. During subsequent decades he became a local icon primarily…