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City and Borough of Juneau City Hall is photographed on July 12, 2025, in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Juneau Empire file)

Opinion

My Turn: Keep Juneau a livable community

To compensate for lost property tax revenue, CBJ would have to turn to other revenue sources

The main campus of the University of Alaska Southeast. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

News

Trump administration terminates University of Alaska grants for Alaska Native, Indigenous students

The full extent of the grant funding freeze across the University of Alaska system is still being analyzed

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Ships in port, Sept. 13-17

This information comes from the Cruise Line Agencies of Alaska’s 2025 schedule. Capacity figures in parenthesis were pulled…

Telephone Hill on May 5, 2025. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)

Opinion

My Turn: Reconsidering Telephone Hill

The Assembly should reconsider its decision on Telephone Hill

A sign to guide voters to the City Hall Assembly Chambers Voter Center hangs duct taped to the outside wall of the building on Election day Tuesday morning. Today is the last day for residents to cast their vote before polls close at 8 p.m. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire)

Opinion

My Turn: Make Juneau more affordable; Yes, Yes, No.

The same day I received the CBJ “Voter Information” pamphlet in the mail, I learned of another young…

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) delivers his annual speech to the Alaska Legislature on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire file photo)

Opinion

Opinion: Another challenge to Sullivan’s conscience

Sullivan will destroy his own credibility and legacy if he ignores the very credible circumstantial evidence tying Trump…

News

Police calls, Sept. 6-9

This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement and public safety agencies. This report…

A photograph of Our Lady of Medjugorje by the Italian artist Carmelo Puzzolo. The original painting hangs in St. Pope John Paul II Hall in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Photo by Gina Del Rosario)

Neighbors

Living and Growing: Medjugorje

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the King of kings, the Creator of this universe, entrusted Himself to…

Gov. Mike Dunleavy holds a press conference on Monday, May 19, 2025, to discuss his decision to veto an education bill. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire file photo)

Opinion

Dunleavy: A tribute to Charlie Kirk and the First Amendment

Today, I write this as not only your governor, but as a citizen of our great country who…

Natalie Brown plays a drum and sings during an Orange Shirt Day event near the Mendenhall Wetlands viewing area in Juneau on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire)

News

‘Always in our hearts:’ September an important month for boarding school survivors

The National Day of Remembrance coincides with Congressional consideration of the boarding school healing bill

Salmon caught on the opening day of the spring Chinook salmon run in 2020 in Washougal, Washington. (Grant Hindsley/The New York Times)

News

Another bust year for Yukon River king salmon returns, sonar counters show

Fish counters show 2025 returns have again failed to meet that target after missing in 2024 as well.

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Police calls, Sept. 3-6

This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement and public safety agencies. This report…

The northern lights are pictured near the Mendenhall Glacier on Sept. 3, 2025. (Chloe Anderson for the Juneau Empire)

Neighbors

Weekly Wonder: Chasing the aurora

She’s hard to find, and even trickier to photograph

Photo by Martin Truffer
The 18,008-foot Mount St. Elias rises above Malaspina Glacier and Sitkagi Lagoon (water body center left) in 2021.

Sports

Alaska Science Forum: The long fade of Alaska’s largest glacier

SITKAGI BLUFFS — While paddling a glacial lake complete with icebergs and milky blue water, I dipped my…

Peggy Ann McConnochie (Courtesy)

Opinion

My Turn: A closer look at ‘guiding principles’

Some of the assumptions behind those headings raise some red flags for me

The Tongass National Forest sign seen en route to the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

Opinion

My Turn: Roadless Rule reversal threatens Alaska’s economy, culture and heritage

The Tongass is not ‘overstocked’ — it’s irreplaceable

The Alaska Capitol is photographed Friday, July 11, 2025, in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Juneau Empire)

Opinion

Opinion: Alaska needs to be a smart shopper for taxes

Don’t go grocery shopping when you’re hungry, you’ll make too many wrong choices

Brooke L. Rollins

Opinion

Opinion: The Trump administration is reviving timber production in Southeast Alaska

Under President Trump’s leadership, USDA is charting a new course

Joe Geldhof. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire file photo)

Opinion

My Turn: Yes, yes and no is the way to go this October

The best way to make Juneau more affordable is to adopt the two sensible ballot measures put forward…

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Alexander Dolitsky participates in a traditional Jewish blessing, in which two leather boxes (tefillins) are secured around a person’s head and arm, at Hearthside Books in the Merchant Wharf Mall in downtown Juneau, August 2025.

Neighbors

From whispers in Kiev to shofar blasts in Juneau

Certainly, one would not refuse an offer of such a sincere blessing