Across Alaska, roads are falling apart. Potholes deepen in Fairbanks, washed-out culverts block salmon in the Mat-Su, and rural communities from Ketchikan to Kotzebue are left waiting on repairs that ...

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire ...

Occasionally long hair is cut and preserved for cultural or artistic uses instead of wig donation. After the tanker Exxon ...

According to race co-director Heather Parker, “The Seacoast Relay is one of the only relay races in Juneau. It’s a beautiful ...

Operation ORCA is an interagency joint training exercise conducted in Alaska every two years. Participants simulate detecting ...

Memento mori is Latin for “remember that you will die.” This practice of contemplating our mortality was emphasized by Stoic ...

Lead carver Gordon Greenwald said the totem, or kootéeyaa, serves as a tribute to seiners, trollers, longliners, crabbers, ...

The launch of a publication featuring contributors from Juneau and Palestine, a group chant to singing bowls, and an event ...

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the board which regulates subsistence hunting on ...

A startup company is proposing to build a large Bitcoin mining operation on Alaska’s North Slope later this year that’s ...

Juneau Assembly members are looking to influence voters about tax matters in this fall’s municipal election and implement ...

School board opts to delay its stance until Assembly, which meets Monday, gets more public clarity about proposal.