ANCHORAGE — State highway officials are watching overflow that has emerged near a northern section of the Dalton Highway.The Alaska Department of Transportation says overflow… Continue reading
STERLING — Alaska State Troopers say a 47-year-old Kenai Peninsula man was found dead on a trail near the community of Sterling.The body of Leroy… Continue reading
HOUSTON — Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. declined by 13… Continue reading
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ANCHORAGE — A teenager at a Wasilla home was shot and wounded Thursday by a second teenager handling a gun.Alaska State Troopers took a call… Continue reading
JUNEAU — The dates have been set for the annual addresses by Alaska’s two U.S. senators to the state Legislature.U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is scheduled… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A man suspected of burglarizing two Alaska businesses was delayed in his get-away by locking his keys in his car. A call to… Continue reading
Senior ceramics, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Juneau Senior Center. Details: Diane, 463-6176. Storytime, 11 a.m., Mendenhall Valley Library. Details: 586-5267. Organ concert, noon, State Office Building.… Continue reading
The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly will hold a special meeting Monday at 5 p.m. to discuss filling the District 2 seat left vacant… Continue reading
The Secretary of Commerce adopted Amendment 111 to the Magnuson-Stevens Act on Wednesday, which cuts halibut bycatch limits for groundfish trawlers.The amendment aims to reduce… Continue reading
This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement agencies. This report includes arrest and citation information, not conviction information. Anyone listed… Continue reading
Southeast Board of Realtors President Susan FitzGerald started by asking the audience at the Chamber of Commerce’s weekly Thursday luncheon to participate in a text-message… Continue reading
Every homeless person who walks into the Juneau Arts & Culture Center Tuesday can leave with a new haircut, full belly, filled-out Permanent Fund Dividend… Continue reading
Development of the Graphite Creek mine near Nome has been delayed, but progress continues on the project that could become the country’s lone such mine.Executive… Continue reading
Alaska pollock is having a good 2016 so far, with boosted quotas, favorable certification and a federal rule that will give Alaska an edge over… Continue reading
DES MOINES, Iowa — If the Republican Party is on the verge of an implosion, Sarah Palin may have been the one who lit the… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — Sinking oil prices have cratered the stock market. But a silver lining could appear eventually.Cheaper gasoline and heating oil are giving consumers worldwide… Continue reading
LONDON — Almost a decade after former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko lay dying in a London hospital bed, a British judge has concluded who poisoned… Continue reading
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A suicide car bomber rammed the gates of a restaurant near a beach in Somalia’s capital before gunmen fought their way into… Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — The commuter chaos caused by a light dusting of snow in the nation’s capital was an ominous prelude to the massive blizzard… Continue reading