News
Sport fish report for May 14, 2018
The weekly sport fish report is written by the Alaska Department of Fish &Game and made available to…
News
Police calls for Friday, May 18, 2018
This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement and public safety agencies. This report…
Opinion
Best Starts or blank check?
Public efforts to expand early child education across the country and, most recently in Juneau under the Best…
Neighbors
Birds compete fiercely for nesting sites
Birds are usually very choosy about where to put their nests. Some species prefer a site right next…
Sports
Coach’s Corner: A message from Coach Casperson
The Juneau-Douglas High School boys basketball team recently held our end-of-the-season awards banquet. During the celebration, the coaching…
News
McKenna and York win scholarship
Juneau Trail &Road Runners presented Juneau-Douglas High School senior Tim McKenna and home-school senior Madison York with a…
News
Police calls for Thursday, May 17, 2018
This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement and public safety agencies. This report…
Letters to the Editor
Ambler Road is a zombie mega project, eating away at Alaska’s cash resources
A recent House Resources committee hearing on the 211-mile Ambler Road Proposal illustrates how prevalent knee-jerk development financing…
Opinion
Don’t take away rights of vulnerable people
Lawmakers have again willfully and intentionally stripped away constitutionally protected rights of due process. House Bill 312 is,…
Opinion
Stop the HydroOne sale
Who gave Avista the option to sell America’s energy company to Canada’s HydroOne and why? Canada can later…
News
Police seeking thief of equipment from university boat
Juneau Police Department personnel are searching for two stolen items taken from a University of Alaska Southeast boat…
Neighbors
Disturb us, Adonai
The last time I wrote for Living &Growing (“God of Surprises,” April 22), I talked about an extraordinary…
Neighbors
Running the Race of Faith
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside…
Neighbors
What’s Happening the week of May 16-22
Brown Bag Concert, Wednesday, May 15, 12-1 p.m., State Office Building atrium. Music for your lunch time enjoyment…
Neighbors
Planet Alaska: Art-thinking at Mickey’s Fishcamp
“Art is everywhere in the forest,” my dad says as we drive slowly along the logging roads. With…
Neighbors
Real Music: Juneau keyboardist also plays his hand at poker
Most music-readers play instruments that require only one line of music, and they don’t complain. It starts getting…
Neighbors
Tales of halibut and hunting from an Alaskan outdoorsman
Every Southeast Alaskan fisherman knows not to “cry halibut” when they very well could have snagged the bottom.…
Opinion
Where are all the sandhill cranes?
A friend recently noted that he hadn’t seen sandhill cranes on the Anchorage skyline this summer. It’s because…
Opinion
Dear UA, Don’t go through with a 10-year timber sale in Haines
I’m a lifelong Southeast Alaskan, commercial fishermen and union tradesman with a background in rural living and aquaculture.…
Opinion
Forward-thinking planning vital to the future of ‘the glacier’
The Glacier. The Mendenhall. The Lake. In U.S. Forest Service nomenclature, this Juneau gem is the Mendenhall Glacier…