May Day, or International Workers’ Day, honors the organized labor movement. Alaskans joined hundreds of thousands in the U.S ...

Juneau Assembly members moved toward a $10 million school projects bond and a 5% hike in utility rates for each of the next ...

Amid a severe state budget deficit, the Alaska Senate Finance Committee is proposing the lowest Permanent Fund dividend in ...

GSC placed second overall in the combined boys’ and girls’ team scoring with a total of 3,089 points. First place was Chugiak ...

An election to form Alaska’s first new borough since 2013 is scheduled July 15 for residents of Hoonah and the surrounding ...

According to a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, with cuts to Social Security and Medicare off the table ...

“In our ideal world, we’d have four ambulances year-round in Juneau,” Balstad said. “To be a little more realistic, we’d have four through the summer and we’d have three the rest of the year. The goal ...

One of the points to ponder for music fans during the next couple weeks if they favor works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer or Grammy-winning musicians. Fortunately, if the answer is simply “yes” ...

A breakthrough agreement by the Alaska Legislature on an education bill that includes the first major permanent funding ...

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995, and 2005. The stories include names, AP ...

When my mother was dying of the breast cancer that had spread to her brain, she lost functionality in ways I didn’t expect. She would start the motion of bringing her fork to her mouth when she was ...

Juneau’s 5% sales tax on groceries is among the highest in the nation. Almost every other state either doesn’t tax groceries at all, or taxes them at a far lower rate. This is a regressive and ...