KENAI — Kenai Peninsula marijuana entrepreneurs want the chance to operate for a year before voters decide whether those outside the cities should be allowed… Continue reading
With her husband on one side and an aunt on the other, Cora Watkins bowed her head during a tear-filled prayer as she watched a… Continue reading
DENVER — A Denver proposal to give marijuana tourists clubs to legally use the drug has failed to make city ballots this fall.But a second… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A state review has determined that two Anchorage police officers were legally justified in fatally shooting a man after responding to a robbery… Continue reading
HONOLULU — A federal appeals court Monday dismissed an appeal about whether a vote seen as a step toward self-governance for Native Hawaiians should be… Continue reading
On Monday morning in Centennial Hall, the sound of democracy was the sound of shuffled papers.Half a state away, it was the sound of disturbed… Continue reading
Police have arrested a second man whom they believe is connected to a string of residential burglaries earlier this month.The Juneau Police Department arrested 29-year-old… Continue reading
MISSOULA, Mont. — A plane crash in western Montana killed a star of the History channel reality series “Ice Road Truckers” who was planning to… Continue reading
JUNEAU — U.S. Rep. Don Young is updating his financial disclosures to show ownership in a family farm dating to the 1990s and income from… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Police in Alaska’s largest city are looking for a man on a bicycle who is accused of pepper-spraying at least four people.Anchorage police… Continue reading
MINNEAPOLIS — Alaska Airlines says an airliner bound for Seattle had to divert to Minneapolis after an unruly passenger tried to open a rear door… Continue reading
Saturday’s sunny weather broke a 75-year-old high-temperature mark as Juneau and Alaska stayed on track for its warmest year since modern record-keeping began.According to measurements… Continue reading
The Juneau Police Department has already linked a dark green 1990s Ford Explorer to a man suspected of attempted kidnapping five months ago, but they… 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
On Aug. 29, 1986, the case against John Kenneth Peel, who was charged with killing eight people and setting their boat on fire near Craig,… Continue reading
Women, Infants and Children walk-in clinic, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., SEARHC Juneau WIC Clinic, 3245 Hospital Drive, first floor. Free nutrition services for income-eligible women who… Continue reading
KETCHIKAN — The Cassiopeia is a boat grand enough for a cowboy hat.The 72-foot, custom-built Davidson sailboat has been an eye-catcher in Casey Moran Harbor… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Supreme Court says recent owners of a North Pole oil refinery share costs of cleaning up a contamination that has reached… Continue reading
HOMER — Homer has made amendments to the city’s animal control laws that ban a practice some might think of as Alaskan as log cabins… Continue reading
The city’s Parks and Recreation Department has reopened Twin lakes to swimmers after it closed the lakes late last week.The department asked people and pets… Continue reading