Neighbors
What’s Happening the week of June 27-July 3
Support for Families Dealing with Addiction: Heroin and Opiates, Wednesday, June 27, 5:30-7 p.m., NCADD, 211 4th St.…
Neighbors
Writers’ Weir: Silence and secret-keeping in a small Alaska town
This is a reader submitted work of nonfiction. The Capital City Weekly accepts submissions of poetry, fiction and…
Neighbors
Salmonberry season has arrived
I love salmonberry season. In the Tlingit language we call them was’x’aan tléigu. I know they aren’t everyone’s…
Neighbors
Historic and modern-day Alaskans ‘break the ice’ on niche frozen economy
Mike Ward of Taku Lodge has harvested icebergs from Twin Glacier Lake since childhood. His technique involves three…
Opinion
So-called ‘right to work’ is an attack on workers
Have you ever had a bad day at work? It happens to all of us once in a…
Opinion
End family internment at the border
We, the Social Action Working Group of Sukkat Shalom, the Jewish congregation in Juneau, write to demand the…
News
Police and fire for Tuesday, June 26, 2018
This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement and public safety agencies. This report…
Opinion
Border crisis
Question: Why are so many people fleeing their country of origin? Answer: They claim their country is lawless…
Opinion
Protecting salmon is good business and the right thing to do
Propaganda is, by definition, information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a…
Neighbors
Judgment or Grace?
Why are some people “put off” by church? Could it be that they were victims of “judging one…
Neighbors
Alaskaepoedia — The Whale Edition
Whales are a diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals, although the term “whale” may also refer…
News
Police and Fire for Sunday, June 24, 2018
This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement and public safety agencies. This report…
Neighbors
Ten challenges Southeast Alaskans face on a sunny day
A sunny summer day in Southeast Alaska poses many challenges. To name a few: We don’t know what…
Opinion
There’s no such thing as a nonprofit
The news about furloughs at Perseverance Theatre isn’t good, especially for the employees who will be missing out…
Sports
Little League: Pirates surge past Red Sox for title
Gastineau Channel Little League’s Flying Squirrel Pirates won the Junior Division championship on Saturday night at Adair-Kennedy Memorial…
Sports
Little League: Fick’s grand slam sends Marlins past Red Sox
The IBEW Marlins claimed the Gastineau Channel Little League Minor Division championship on Saturday evening at Miller Field.…
Neighbors
Low-tide explorations
June brought some good low tides, lower than minus four feet, so out we went to look at…
Neighbors
Warming in the north continues as predicted
Just outside my window here at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, workers are drilling into the asphalt of…
News
Drawing science: Field sketching for beginners
Observation is fundamental to science. In fact, one could even argue that science is observation, nourished and channeled…
Opinion
Progress is coming for Southeast Alaska
Whenever I return to Southeast Alaska, I’m always filled with a renewed sense of optimism and awe for…