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District Attorney Angie Kemp speaks with Assembly member Wade Bryson after at September 2019 presentation for a Greater Juneau Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Kemp has been named director of the Alaska Department of Law’s Criminal Division. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire File)

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Kemp picked to head state’s Criminal Division

Department of Law is working to fill district attorney vacancy.

It's a police car until you look closely and see the details don't quite match. (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022

This report contains public information from law enforcement and public safety agencies.

(Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Seniors find fault with DHSS split proposal

There are better answers.

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Update: Empire offices to open on Tuesday for normal hours

Employees continue to be available remotely.

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, NIAID-RML

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COVID at a Glance for Monday, Jan. 9

Numbers come from reports from the City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center and the Alaska Department…

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Juneau students earn academic honors, awards

Recognitions for the week of Jan. 9, 2022

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Thank you letter for the week of Jan. 9, 2022

Thank you, merci, danke, gracias, gunalchéesh.

It's a police car until you look closely and see the details don't quite match. (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022

This report contains public information from law enforcement and public safety agencies.

The Supreme Court shown Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court is taking up two major Biden administration efforts to bump up the nation's vaccination rate against COVID-19 at a time of spiking coronavirus cases because of the omicron variant. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Supreme Court skeptical of Biden’s workplace vaccine rule

The court seemed more open to a separate vaccine mandate for most health care workers.

(Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire File)

Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Why weren’t past vaccine mandates an issue?

Can Dunleavy be held liable for COVID illnesses or deaths of Alaska’s National Guard members?

Death Notices

Death Notice: Daniel “Hollywood” Smith

Daniel Marvin “Hollywood” Smith, 54, of Hoonah died on Jan. 2, 2022 in Douglas.

This photo shows a porcupine near Valdez. (Courtesy Photo / Ned Rozell)

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Alaska Science Forum: The porcupine’s winter in slow-motion

How do porcupines survive winter? A lengthy study provides insights.

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Opinion

Opinion: The pulse of fealty

Let’s be honest. Trump’s demands go beyond his one stated condition.

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Opinion

Opinion: George Orwell and the beginnings of industrial propaganda

Everyone needs to read “1984.”

It's a police car until you look closely and see the details don't quite match. (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022

This report contains public information from law enforcement and public safety agencies.

The Rev. Tari Stage-Harvey is pastor at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church. (Courtesy Photo)

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Living & Growing: The time will come

The time will come. This season shall pass. What happens next?

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Sustainable Alaska: Humans vs. Volcanoes

We are warming the world tens of times faster than did the ancient volcanoes.

Alaska Airlines planes are parked at gates with Mount Rainier in the background at sunrise, March 1, 2021, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. Alaska Airlines said Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, it will trim its schedule by about 10% for the rest of January at it deals with “unprecedented” numbers of employees calling in sick during the current COVID-19 surge. (AP Photo / Ted S. Warren, File)

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Alaska Air trims January flights to cope with virus outbreak

Alaska Airlines said Thursday it will trim its schedule by about 10% for the rest of January.

An array of “I Voted” stickers wait for early voters inside Mendenhall Mall on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

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Opinion: Easy to vote and hard to cheat

It’s essential that election officials evaluate changes to ensure state voting system remains secure

(Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion

Opinion: Hope, prayer, and mRNA vaccines

Every elected leader should be asking Americans to do their patriotic duty —get vaccinated.