If you have a wild survival story or an area of expertise about how to weather a disastrous event, the city wants you to share… Continue reading
The Alaska Humanities Forum has paired up with artist Sarah Davies to give an Alaskan a $10,000 opportunity. The grant is geared specifically toward those… Continue reading
The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or plant life. Send your photos to: Outdoors Editor, outdoors@juneauempire.com. For all… Continue reading
SAGANAVIRKTOK RIVER — August, here so soon. And we just passed Trans-Alaska Pipeline mile 100, which means that distance remains on our summer hike from… Continue reading
Cruise ships. Those words elicit a firestorm of opinion in many Alaskans. Some see the potential economic benefit and decide that’s enough reason to roll… Continue reading
Drop into the Coppa coffeehouse at 917 Glacier Ave. this month and you’ll have a hard time not noticing walls saturated by the colorful work… Continue reading
Kerry Howard For the Juneau Empire… Continue reading
The Juneau Fourth of July Parade Committee has announced the 2018 Fourth of July Parade Theme: “Volunteers: Fabric of our community.” The logo and parade… Continue reading
Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: On June 18, a daughter, Avalon Nicole Papenbrock, weighing 8 pounds, 10 ounces, was born Nicole Christine Carson and… Continue reading
The Civil Air Patrol Honor Guard coming back to Juneau. Cadet Senior Airman Adam Murphy with the Civil Air Patrol, which is the official Air… Continue reading
I’ve recently been travelling in the Midwest, and it reminded me of the seven basic questions people always ask when I say I’m from Alaska.… Continue reading
Love in the Name of Christ (Love INC) would like to thank Christian singer Amy Grant for an amazing concert to a standing room only… Continue reading
Fifteen Boy Scouts from Juneau recently returned from the National Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia. The Juneau Scouts accompanied 23 other Scouts from around… Continue reading
Every year I end up in charge of camp for Southeast Alaska Lutheran youth. I don’t love camp. Sorry. It mainly has to do with… Continue reading
Arboretum celebrates 10 years with cake, bugs and music Record attendance marked the celebration at the Jensen-Olson Arboretum last Saturday during its 10th birthday party.… Continue reading
ATIGUN RIVER — Goodbye, red squirrels. On our summer-long hike along the path of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, this morning my dog Cora and I left… Continue reading
As a geologist considering issues of sustainability, I tend to ponder timescales that go far beyond that of a human lifetime. For example, many of… Continue reading
One July day I was moseying along a streambank, looking at the alders. Both red and Sitka alders grew there, but I was focused on… Continue reading
Reader-submitted images of Mother Nature in Southeast The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or plant life. Send your… Continue reading
“When is it my turn to use the sledgehammer?” Astraea, the 12-year-old girl we have staying with us this summer, demanded. We were working on… Continue reading
