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
Starting at the beginning of October, members of local improv group Morally Improv-erished Inc. have found a new way to share their talent with the… Continue reading
Akiko Nishijima Rotch’s journey to become a set designer began with a musician bursting through a screen. At the time, she was a 17-year-old high… Continue reading
I decided to break away from Juneau to spend New Year’s in Ireland. Directly after arriving in Dublin, which is on the east coast, I… Continue reading
When my sister Megan, who lives in Miami, escaped Hurricane Irma by flying up to visit us here in Alaska, she may have jumped out… Continue reading
Each year, Alaska Native peoples head out to catch fish and hunt seals as they have for thousands of years. But if current worldwide trends… Continue reading
The temperatures plummet to single digits, and maybe the winds howl too, and even if the lovely sun is shining, the days are short, food… Continue reading
“Seeing Faces” Juneau-Douglas City Museum 114 W. 4th St. 4:30-7 p.m. The Juneau Douglas City Museum will host a solo artist reception for Tsimshian carver… Continue reading
It’s that time of year again: time to make New Year’s resolutions. Do you feel like you just did that? Every year it’s the same… Continue reading
Recent births at Barlett Regional Hospital: On Dec. 23, a son, Clark Paul Hartman, weighing 9 pounds, 0 ounces, was born to Lesley Kalbrener and… Continue reading
I have a virus. I won’t share the symptoms. It is never helpful to place blame, but a sick two-year-old who loves to curl up… Continue reading
The Canvas at REACH extends our sincere appreciation to First National Bank Alaska for their generous year-end gift. FNBA funded our framing supplies for 2018,… Continue reading
As 2017 comes to a close, we at the American Red Cross of Alaska would like to express our appreciation and sense of loss for… Continue reading
On behalf of the Juneau-Douglas Shrine Club, we want to thank everyone who attended our inaugural Christmas party on Dec. 17 at the Juneau Masonic… Continue reading
A pastor of 30 years comes clean; Geoff Kirsch’s controversial satire of Alaska Airlines boarding policies; Kerry Howard’s unpacking of “Juneau Style”; the things they… Continue reading
Deadwood — every bureaucracy has some! Yet each “deadwood” individual supports a vibrant community of personal bacteria, and perhaps a fungus or a tapeworm. And… Continue reading
The Tongass National Forest has released the schedule for the 2018 Fireside Lectures at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. Local photographer Mark Kelley will start the… Continue reading
Richard Forman, a Harvard professor of landscape ecology, once visited a mangrove swamp in the Florida Everglades that he described as the most remote place… Continue reading
All we had for transportation, when we first lived way out in the bush when I was a kid, was a thirteen-foot Boston Whaler powered… Continue reading
Planet Alaska began as a desire to share and celebrate the diversity of Alaska from Ketchikan to Utqiagvik. Planet Alaska is two writers/artists, a mother/daughter… Continue reading
