In the last two decades, the Petersburg High School Vikings track and field team has had roughly 20 individual state champions, a multitude of podium finishes and handfuls of third, fourth and top-ten ...

Kodiak junior Tina Timu won the boys shot put with a 43’7.75” throw. JDHS senior’s Denali Schijvens went 35’1.25, Gunner Tarver 34’8 and Eero Woolford 34’2.75 to lead the Crimson Bears. Timu also won ...

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

A lawsuit to stop Juneau’s municipal government from installing HESCO flood barriers along the Mendenhall River was filed ...

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 ...

About 4,000 tourists are expected in Juneau on Monday when the first cruise ship of the 2025 season arrives. Officials hope temporary solutions will give visitors a satisfactory experience at the ...

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 ...

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% ...