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Thank you to community for Aan Yátx’u Sáani: Noble People of the Land

The Juneau Arts & Humanities Council is very honored and grateful to have been able to co-produce Aan Yátx’u Sáani: Noble People of the Land… Continue reading

  • Apr 15, 2018
  • By NANCY DeCHERNEY
Horner Hot Springs (Ned Rozell | For the Juneau Empire)

Alaska hot springs, far and wide

KANUTI HOT SPRINGS — After a few hours of skiing through deep snow, Forest Wagner and I smelled a tuna sandwich. We knew we were… Continue reading

Horner Hot Springs (Ned Rozell | For the Juneau Empire)
Fred Hamilton Sr. of Ellis Airlines. Photo courtesy of Betty Marker.

Craig – Then and Now: The Age of Ellis Airlines

A few weeks ago I saw in the Prince of Wales Island Post that Island Air Express will begin flying from the Klawock Airport to… Continue reading

Fred Hamilton Sr. of Ellis Airlines. Photo courtesy of Betty Marker.
Outer Coast College core team during a meeting, from left to right: Cecilia Dumouchel, Erin Slomski-Pritz, Johnny Elliott, Bryden Sweeney-Taylor, and Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins.

Rethinking the college experience in Sitka

Sitting down to a hot meal of baked salmon, freshly caught by fellow students in nearby Sitka Sound is part of the plan — and… Continue reading

Outer Coast College core team during a meeting, from left to right: Cecilia Dumouchel, Erin Slomski-Pritz, Johnny Elliott, Bryden Sweeney-Taylor, and Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins.
Wilson’s warbler. Photo by Bill Heard.

What’s Happening the week of April 11-17

Raincounty Flyfishers Meeting, Wednesday, April 11, 7 p.m., Thunder Mountain High School library. George Elgee will present a slide show on his trip to Greenland… Continue reading

Wilson’s warbler. Photo by Bill Heard.
Jamie watches as his dog Moby notices the cat (out of frame). Photo courtesy of Tara Neilson.

Alaska for Real: Bridging the wilderness

One year we lived in the only remaining, standing building in the old, burned cannery where I grew up. We were fixing up our floathouse… Continue reading

Jamie watches as his dog Moby notices the cat (out of frame). Photo courtesy of Tara Neilson.
Jeff Lund holds a fish from a fishing trip. Jeff Lund | For the Capital City Weekly.

This is fun…right?

“This is the expectation, man. For steelhead fishing in late March, this is what it’s about.” It was around noon and Rob was at a… Continue reading

Jeff Lund holds a fish from a fishing trip. Jeff Lund | For the Capital City Weekly.

The first-timer’s guide to Folk Fest

There’s no music more real than the kind found at a real live folk festival. It’s the kind of place where genuineness is more valued… Continue reading

Pharis and Jason Romero. (Courtesy image)

Folk duo Pharis and Jason Romero put down roots as Alaska Folk Fest guest artists

Folk music is a wide umbrella covering an enormous amount of genres and subgenres, so it’s of no small surprise that the answer musicians give… Continue reading

Pharis and Jason Romero. (Courtesy image)
The hard, hard work

The hard, hard work

Fifty years ago this spring, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered. A jury convicted a white racist of the crime. Almost a year later,… Continue reading

  • Apr 8, 2018
  • By JON PADEN
The hard, hard work

Game On gets high score in national competition

Call it an achievment unlocked. Game On, a local small video game retailer, has won national recognition for their unique business model. Owners and married… Continue reading

  • Apr 8, 2018
  • By Juneau Empire

Three JDHS students earn awards at statewide science fair

Three Juneau-Douglas High School students won awards at the Alaska State Science and Engineering Fair in March for projects that studied herring habitats and glacial… Continue reading

  • Apr 8, 2018
  • By Juneau Empire
Photo by Jack Keller

Last chance for Children’s Art Walk

As the weather warms and we prepare for the upcoming season, business owners will be making their way back to town, removing their window coverings… Continue reading

  • Apr 8, 2018
Photo by Jack Keller
Ten plagues of Juneau

Ten plagues of Juneau

Yesterday concluded the Jewish holiday of Passover, commemorating Exodus, by which I mean the biblical story of Exodus, as opposed to “Exodus” the Bob Marley… Continue reading

  • Apr 8, 2018
  • By Geoff Kirsch
Ten plagues of Juneau

Thanks to Territorial Sportsmen sponsors and donors

On behalf of Territorial Sportsmen, I would like to thank our very generous Alaskan donors and sponsors for making the 18th annual TSI/AOC fundraiser another… Continue reading

  • Apr 8, 2018
  • By Barbara Burnett
In this Nov. 17, 2016 photo, Gavin McNicol, Junior Jules Francois and Denis Darline are photographed at SOIL Haiti’s composting site near Cap-Ha&

‘Mountains beyond mountains’: How human waste (that’s right, poop!) can be transformed into safe and useful resources

I arrived in Juneau last summer with mixed emotions. I was excited to start a new life in Southeast, but I’d also just left behind… Continue reading

In this Nov. 17, 2016 photo, Gavin McNicol, Junior Jules Francois and Denis Darline are photographed at SOIL Haiti’s composting site near Cap-Ha&
A flock of black turnstones fly in to feed on Shaman Island at the north end of Douglas Island in April 2009. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

Birds of a feather: Why do birds do things in groups?

It is said that “birds of a feather flock together,” and indeed they do. We see gangs of crows — sometimes 100 or more —… Continue reading

A flock of black turnstones fly in to feed on Shaman Island at the north end of Douglas Island in April 2009. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)
Looking back on Juneau early on the walk around Douglas Island. (Photo by Bjorn Dihle)

Doug Peacock and a walk around Douglas Island

Walking around Douglas Island isn’t fun in the traditional sense of the word. Most of the island’s beaches are rocky and there are a lot… Continue reading

Looking back on Juneau early on the walk around Douglas Island. (Photo by Bjorn Dihle)
Using snow anchors we pactice belaying on a Munter hitch. (Photo by Gabe Donohoe)

Traversing the Mendenhall Glacier

While many were celebrating Easter and Passover with loved ones this past weekend, the University of Alaska Southeast sent its Glacier Crevasse Rescue class to… Continue reading

Using snow anchors we pactice belaying on a Munter hitch. (Photo by Gabe Donohoe)
Fiddlehead ferns. Photo by Vivian Mork Y&

Planet Alaska: Spring is sneaking into Alaska

Spring, Taakw eetí, is sneaking into Alaska again. Fairbanks and Juneau are still covered in snow. In Sitka, there are signs of spring. As I… Continue reading

Fiddlehead ferns. Photo by Vivian Mork Y&