Christopher M. Cummings of Juneau earned a place on the spring 2016 Deans Honor Roll at Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. Cummings is a… Continue reading
Fifteen Juneau residents were named on University of Alaska Fairbanks’ honor rolls. Four made it onto the chancellor’s list: Dominique D. Brinson, Stephen E. Ringle,… Continue reading
The Juneau Community Foundation recently announced awards from the Margaret Frans Brady and the Simon and Anna Kirk Memorial Scholarship Funds, with 10 students from… Continue reading
I have served as a lay leader for the Juneau Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (JUUF) for well over the past decade and it has been an… Continue reading
Glacier Swim Club would like to send a heartfelt thank you to the Juneau community for their incredible generosity and support during the club’s 2016… Continue reading
United Way of Southeast Alaska is accepting Community Impact Grant applications. Up to $15,000 in Community Impact funds will be awarded to applicants who successfully… Continue reading
SEATTLE — It’s been 50 years since the Starship Enterprise began its five-year mission to boldly go where no man had gone before, and Seattle’s… Continue reading
On Shaman Island, during a day it seemed everyone in Juneau was outside embracing the sun, I had a friend identify goose tongue. It’s one… Continue reading
Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or plant life. Send your photos to: Outdoors… Continue reading
Fish Tech professor Jim Seeland, Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems and DIPAC partnered to host a workshop to inform Alaskan fish culturists how recirculation can be used… Continue reading
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation will give $295,493 in Alaska Clean Water Actions grants. The ACWA partnership between DEC and the Departments of Fish… Continue reading
Before lowering himself into Aureo, an erstwhile research vessel brought to Juneau to teach kids about ocean sciences, local Faith Community Christian School fourth-grader Lucas… Continue reading
The lower muskegs at Eaglecrest were dotted with pink flowers of bog rosemary and the white flowers of cloudberry. Searching specifically for sundews (insect-eating plants),… Continue reading
While boating down the Yukon River during the hottest summer recorded in Alaska (1915, when Fort Yukon reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit), missionary Hudson Stuck wrote… Continue reading
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources received an unusually high number of comments in a recent public comment period, with residents supporting upgraded conservation measures… Continue reading
JUNEAU — Sealaska Heritage Institute has released the first three of eighteen culturally-based children’s books that reflect the Native worldview.The books are part of the… Continue reading
Robert Frost once wrote that of modern poets he alone was trying to create poetry out of what he called “the sound of sense.” He… Continue reading
Sonny Mauricio, a junior, turns off a video display after a school assembly to show images from the Thunder Mountain High School yearbook and this… Continue reading
School farm grand opening in Coffman CoveCOFFMAN COVE — The Howard Valentine School in Coffman Cove on Prince of Wales Island will host the grand… Continue reading
The evening became chilly as the sun slowly sank below the distant edges of the Fairweather Range, but a tightly knit group of students, culture… Continue reading
