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The Juneau Mountain Bike Alliance and City and Borough of Juneau are collaborating to finish a new pump track for bicycle riders in Cope Park, due to be finished within weeks, Sept. 16, 2020. (Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire)

Outdoors pump track work is ramping up

Cope Park is about to have a new way to keep entertained.

The Juneau Mountain Bike Alliance and City and Borough of Juneau are collaborating to finish a new pump track for bicycle riders in Cope Park, due to be finished within weeks, Sept. 16, 2020. (Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire)
The Juneau Police Department has issued a warning to mariners to secure their gear after a string of recent thefts in Juneau’s harbors, including a generator. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire)

JPD investigates rash of thefts near harbors

A reward is offered for information leading to progress on the case.

The Juneau Police Department has issued a warning to mariners to secure their gear after a string of recent thefts in Juneau’s harbors, including a generator. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire)
Winds kick up century old volcanic ash in Alaska

Winds kick up century old volcanic ash in Alaska

While western states were suffered hazy skies, Alaska dealt with an air problem born a century ago.

Winds kick up century old volcanic ash in Alaska
People sit outside the Juneau Arts & Culture Center on Tuesday, Sept. 15. The JACC is poised to serve as an emergency warming shelter through the first quarter of next year. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)
People sit outside the Juneau Arts & Culture Center on Tuesday, Sept. 15. The JACC is poised to serve as an emergency warming shelter through the first quarter of next year. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)
A sign in downtown Juneau encourages residents who have symptoms or otherwise believe they are at risk of having contracted the coronavirus to get tested. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

Community spread of the coronavirus hits new high

City officials remind people to stay ‘COVID conscious’ during weekly update

A sign in downtown Juneau encourages residents who have symptoms or otherwise believe they are at risk of having contracted the coronavirus to get tested. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)
City votes to create spending plan with federal deadline looming
City votes to create spending plan with federal deadline looming
Pitney wants to bring certainty back to UA
Pitney wants to bring certainty back to UA
Opinion: Alaskans should be honest with each other about budget challenge

Opinion: Alaskans should be honest with each other about budget challenge

It will take a balanced, three-pronged approach.

  • Sep 15, 2020
  • By Brad Keithley
Opinion: Alaskans should be honest with each other about budget challenge
Sample ballots from the City and Borough of Juneau for the Oct. 6, 2020, municipal election. Voters will be asked to vote on two ballot propositions, one to establish a commission to review the city charter and one issuing $15 million in bonds for infrastructure projects. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

Opinion: Why I’ll be voting for the bond package

“It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.”

  • Sep 15, 2020
  • By Andy Romanoff
Sample ballots from the City and Borough of Juneau for the Oct. 6, 2020, municipal election. Voters will be asked to vote on two ballot propositions, one to establish a commission to review the city charter and one issuing $15 million in bonds for infrastructure projects. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)
WATCH: City talks warming shelter purchase, CARES act spending and more

WATCH: City talks warming shelter purchase, CARES act spending and more

It’s a loaded Committee of the Whole agenda.

WATCH: City talks warming shelter purchase, CARES act spending and more
City awaits results from hundreds of COVID-19 tests
City awaits results from hundreds of COVID-19 tests
Melting permafrost reveals a surprise 22,000 years in the making

Melting permafrost reveals a surprise 22,000 years in the making

It was found by reindeer herders in the Russian Arctic.

  • Sep 14, 2020
  • Associated Press
Melting permafrost reveals a surprise 22,000 years in the making
Automaker to pay $1.5B to settle emissions cheating probes

Automaker to pay $1.5B to settle emissions cheating probes

The company didn’t make it clear just how the vehicles would be cleaned up.

  • Sep 14, 2020
  • By MICHAEL BALSAMO and TOM KRISHER Associated Press
  • National News
Automaker to pay $1.5B to settle emissions cheating probes
Several Coast Guard Station Juneau 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew members speak with the owner of a disabled 22-foot sailing vessel after towing it from Marmion Island to Mike Pusich Douglas Harbor in Juneau, Sept. 13, 2020. (Courtesy Photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class Anthony DeLorenzo)

Coast Guard assists family aboard stricken vessel

The sailing vessel was low on fuel with a damaged rudder

Several Coast Guard Station Juneau 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew members speak with the owner of a disabled 22-foot sailing vessel after towing it from Marmion Island to Mike Pusich Douglas Harbor in Juneau, Sept. 13, 2020. (Courtesy Photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class Anthony DeLorenzo)
EcoChaplain Roger Wharton is an Episcopal priest from Juneau. (Courtesy Photo / Roger Wharton)

Living & Growing: The Great Commandment — an ecological perspective

To love God is to live a simple life that is as ecologically sound as possible.

  • Sep 13, 2020
  • By Roger Wharton
EcoChaplain Roger Wharton is an Episcopal priest from Juneau. (Courtesy Photo / Roger Wharton)
Ode to a Dead Salmon

Ode to a Dead Salmon

“That’s the other way you know summer’s almost over in Juneau, even a COVID-19 summer: dead salmon.”

  • Sep 13, 2020
  • By Geoff Kirsch
Ode to a Dead Salmon
These sample show candidates in the races for Assembly and school board and the ballot propositions that will be before voters in City and Borough of Juneau’s upcoming vote-by-mail election. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

A 1-stop spot for municipal election information

Find out more about the races, candidates and issues shaping this year’s election.

These sample show candidates in the races for Assembly and school board and the ballot propositions that will be before voters in City and Borough of Juneau’s upcoming vote-by-mail election. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)
Former Gov. Frank Murkowski speaks on a range of subjects during an interview with the Juneau Empire in May 2019. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion: Frank Murkowski should endorse Biden to save the Senate

“I don’t expect Joe Biden to be able to repair the Senate by himself.”

  • Sep 12, 2020
  • By Rich Moniak
Former Gov. Frank Murkowski speaks on a range of subjects during an interview with the Juneau Empire in May 2019. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)
Antarctica is still free of COVID-19. Can it stay that way?

Antarctica is still free of COVID-19. Can it stay that way?

At this very moment a vast world exists that’s free of the coronavirus

Antarctica is still free of COVID-19. Can it stay that way?
Coach Merry Ellefson compliments runners on a job well done after a race. (Courtesy Photo / Debbie Lowenthall)

Long-distance running meets socially distanced competition

Team spirit carries Juneau-Douglas Yadaa.at Kalé High School’s runners on where others falter.

Coach Merry Ellefson compliments runners on a job well done after a race. (Courtesy Photo / Debbie Lowenthall)