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Opinion: Follow simple health guidelines for students

Opinion: Follow simple health guidelines for students

If we all do our part, it will spare us from inestimable losses.

  • Aug 13, 2020
  • By Juneau School District Board of Education
Opinion: Follow simple health guidelines for students
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)

19 employees at mine near Juneau test positive for coronavirus

News came Wednesday evening.

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)
Lawyers want investigation of police shooting reopened

Lawyers want investigation of police shooting reopened

Attorneys say new evidence merits reexamination of previously cleared officer.

Lawyers want investigation of police shooting reopened
Shoes stand in for protesters at Capitol
Shoes stand in for protesters at Capitol
Hundreds gathered at Marine Park in downtown Juneau on June 7, 2020, for a rally and march calling for an end to police violence and systemic racism in America. Protesters issued a number of demands at the rally, and the City and Borough of Juneau has been trying to address some of those issues.(Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)
Hundreds gathered at Marine Park in downtown Juneau on June 7, 2020, for a rally and march calling for an end to police violence and systemic racism in America. Protesters issued a number of demands at the rally, and the City and Borough of Juneau has been trying to address some of those issues.(Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)
Planet Alaska: A family of crabbers

Planet Alaska: A family of crabbers

Tradition provides a through line for generations.

Planet Alaska: A family of crabbers
Tribal Emergency Operations Center responds to crisis across Southeast

Tribal Emergency Operations Center responds to crisis across Southeast

The Tribal Emergency Operations Center is looking out for nearly 35,000 tribal citizens.

Tribal Emergency Operations Center responds to crisis across Southeast
Troopers close Sitka cold case

Troopers close Sitka cold case

Answers to a 24-year-old tragedy have been found.

Troopers close Sitka cold case
Students at the Juneau Montessori School in Douglas on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. Montessori is a private pre-school and kindergarten which has received a large number of parents looking for child care following the Juneau School District’s announcement the 2020 school year would begin mostly online, according to executive director Laura Talpey. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)

With schools online, city looks for child care alternatives

Officials say there are few easy answers to looming problem.

Students at the Juneau Montessori School in Douglas on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. Montessori is a private pre-school and kindergarten which has received a large number of parents looking for child care following the Juneau School District’s announcement the 2020 school year would begin mostly online, according to executive director Laura Talpey. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)
Salmon derby soldiers on for 74th year
Salmon derby soldiers on for 74th year
Sayéik: Gastineau Community School, seen in this May 4, 2020, photo, has a new interim principal, Juneau School District announced Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

Interim principal named for Sayéik: Gastineau Community School

Sayéik: Gastineau Community School has a new interim principal, Juneau School District announced. Stacy Diouf will be the interim principal for the 2020-21 school year,… Continue reading

Sayéik: Gastineau Community School, seen in this May 4, 2020, photo, has a new interim principal, Juneau School District announced Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)
Opinion: We are poisoning our future. There’s a better way.

Opinion: We are poisoning our future. There’s a better way.

“Mother Earth will provide for your needs but not your greed.”

  • Aug 11, 2020
  • By Bev Sellars
Opinion: We are poisoning our future. There’s a better way.
Long-time resident and local businessman Bill Corbus speaks to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce during their weekly luncheon in May 2017. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion: Now is not the time to raise taxes on any part of our economy

Ballot Measure 1 would create a road block to recovery

  • Aug 11, 2020
  • By Bill Corbus
Long-time resident and local businessman Bill Corbus speaks to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce during their weekly luncheon in May 2017. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)
An MH-60 Jayhawk from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka conducts a training flight on Dec. 11, 2006. (U.S. Coast Guard photo / Petty Officer 1st Class William Greer)
An MH-60 Jayhawk from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka conducts a training flight on Dec. 11, 2006. (U.S. Coast Guard photo / Petty Officer 1st Class William Greer)
Now home, AMHS crew member tests positive for COVID-19
Now home, AMHS crew member tests positive for COVID-19
Opinion: Now’s the time to invest in clean energy

Opinion: Now’s the time to invest in clean energy

It could help avert future crisis.

  • Aug 10, 2020
  • By Stuart Cohen
Opinion: Now’s the time to invest in clean energy
In this March 2020 photo, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del. Biden said on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, that if he’s elected, his administration would stop a proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region. The mine would be built near headwaters of the Bristol Bay salmon fishery about 200 miles southwest of Anchorage. Conservation and local tribal groups say they fear the mine will devastate the fishery. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Biden vows to block proposed Pebble Mine if elected

“It is no place for a mine,” the former vice president said in a statement.

  • Aug 10, 2020
  • Associated Press
In this March 2020 photo, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del. Biden said on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, that if he’s elected, his administration would stop a proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region. The mine would be built near headwaters of the Bristol Bay salmon fishery about 200 miles southwest of Anchorage. Conservation and local tribal groups say they fear the mine will devastate the fishery. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Kristina Abbott is a member at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church. (Courtesy Photo / Kristina Abbott)

Living & Growing: Tales of the conceited canine

I feel like as time goes on, our country — our world is becoming more and more narcissistic.

  • Aug 9, 2020
  • By Kristina Abbott
Kristina Abbott is a member at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church. (Courtesy Photo / Kristina Abbott)
Slack Tide: 40 random thoughts on yet another rainy summer morning

Slack Tide: 40 random thoughts on yet another rainy summer morning

The deep thoughts flow like raindrops down the window pane.

  • Aug 9, 2020
  • By Geoff Kirsch For the Juneau Empire
Slack Tide: 40 random thoughts on yet another rainy summer morning
Opinion: Lawmakers should put American democracy first

Opinion: Lawmakers should put American democracy first

Alaskans should make the intelligent distinction between party loyalists and proactive opponents.

  • Aug 8, 2020
  • By Rich Moniak
Opinion: Lawmakers should put American democracy first