The Alaska Legislature on Friday passed a major increase to K-12 education funding, worth $1,000 in the state’s per-student ...

More than 20 high school student protesters entered the Alaska State Capitol early Friday afternoon, asking a security guard in the entrance lobby where the stairs leading to the governor’s office on ...

A lawsuit to stop Juneau’s municipal government from installing HESCO flood barriers along the Mendenhall River was filed this week by a property owner claiming the city bypassed federal assessment ...

For at least 20 years, my sister Mary Watson has been making these cookies frequently, especially for her piano music recitals and music history classes. Because of the variety of dried fruits and ...

If the outside of that rehearsal is more White Fang, the inside is more High School Musical mostly because of the High School Musical references Letson and singer/guitarist Lucy Nieboer like to toss ...

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 ...

But Alexandra Pierce, tourism manager for the City and Borough of Juneau, said that as of now she still expects the total ...

Now the typical rent in Alaska is about the same as the national median for the first time on record, and 19 states have higher rental prices, according to an analysis by state economists. That is a ...

Juneau’s cold-weather emergency warming shelter closes on Tuesday. The City and Borough of Juneau decided to close the Mill Campground last year, and homeless residents will be left to disperse camp ...

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• An initiative exempting “essential food” and residential utilities from local sales taxes, which currently total 5% (a 4% ...

Sen. Dan Sullivan co-sponsored the STOP Act that he said “focuses on stopping the killer drug fentanyl from coming from places like China and Mexico and killing our people.” Even though the bill ...