Let’s go for a drive. I’ll meet you at the Douglas Breeze-In, and we’ll head down the road to Merchant’s Wharf. It’s only 1.2 miles:… Continue reading
Gov. Bill Walker signed Alaska’s capital construction budget without ceremony or vetoes Monday in the Capitol, fulfilling a promise to approve it before Aug. 1.… Continue reading
This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement and public safety agencies. This report includes arrest and citation information, not conviction… Continue reading
Tonight’s City and Borough of Juneau Assembly is the first meeting since the end of June, and will set up larger decisions down the line… Continue reading
The trial for a man suspected of stabbing and seriously injuring another man at a Thane Road beach party has been postponed until early September.… Continue reading
This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement and public safety agencies. This report includes arrest and citation information, not conviction… Continue reading
The majority of the cruise ships that make Juneau a port of call carry thousands of passengers. The National Geographic Quest will host just 100.… Continue reading
On Wednesday, a Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a man suffering chest pain from a fishing vessel in Stephens Passage… Continue reading
This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement and public safety agencies. This report includes arrest and citation information, not conviction… Continue reading
David Katzeek took the microphone from Paul Marks and paused a moment. Katzeek and Marks, both Tlingit elders, were tag-teaming a part of the Douglas… Continue reading
The Affordable Care Act is here to stay, and that’s in large part because of Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Alaska’s senior U.S. Senator cast one of… Continue reading
Alaska’s legislators had to put their lives on hold during an extraordinary 181 days of session. Sen. Shelley Hughes, R-Palmer, put her cancer diagnosis on… Continue reading
As he prepared dozens of small capsules that will soon hold cannabis oil, Ben Wilcox reflected on his past. After working for years at a… Continue reading
Standing between the “filet room” and the “butcher room” at Alaska Glacier Seafoods in Juneau, Peter Hochstoeger explained that these rooms might look totally different… Continue reading
A defendant in a 2015 prison riot case will go to trial alone on Monday, after a judge ordered a competency evaluation for one of… Continue reading
This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement and public safety agencies. This report includes arrest and citation information, not conviction… Continue reading
During its 10 years of existence, the Jensen-Olson Arboretum has gone from a well-kept secret to a full-blown destination, but very little has changed at… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A Utah man killed his wife aboard an Alaska cruise and told an acquaintance who later walked into the couple’s blood-splattered room… Continue reading
In a one-day special session Thursday, the Alaska Legislature passed a $1.4 billion capital construction budget, then adjourned without taking action on Alaska’s larger fiscal… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called Alaska’s two Republican senators to warn them of repercussions for the nation’s largest state if they failed to… Continue reading
