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Kaa Yahaayí Shkalneegi Muriel Reid photo In 2024, SSP’s Regional Catalysts attended and helped with the Kake Culture Camp hosted by the Organized Village of Kake. The goal was to be in community, grow our relationships, and identify opportunities to support community priorities determined by the community itself. In 2024, SSP’s Regional Catalysts attended and helped with the Kake Culture Camp hosted by the Organized Village of Kake. The goal was to be in community, grow our relationships, and identify opportunities to support community priorities determined by the community itself. (Ḵaa Yahaayí Shkalneegi Muriel Reid photo)

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Woven Peoples and Place: Don’t be an island, be amongst the people

Láaganaay Tsiits Git’anee and Shaelene Grace Moler reflect on celebrating values in action.

A demonstrator holds a sign in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as arguments are heard about the Affordable Care Act, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo / Alex Brandon)

Opinion

My Turn: The U.S. is under health care duress

When millions become uninsured, it will strain the entire health care system.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Storis is underway, June 3, 2025, from Pascagoula, Mississippi. The Storis is the Coast Guard’s first new polar icebreaker acquisition in 25 years and will expand U.S. operational presence in the Artic Ocean. (Photo courtesy of Edison Chouest Offshore)

Opinion

My Turn: Welcoming the Coast Guard for a brighter future

Our community is on the verge of transformation with the commissioning of the icebreaker Storis.d

A whale tale sculpture on the downtown docks glows on New Year’s Day 2026. (Mari Kanagy / Juneau Empire)

News

January’s First Friday: Here’s what to see

Juneau Arts Humanities Council announced a preview of community events on First Friday.

Fred La Plante is the pastor of the Juneau Church of the Nazarene. (Photo courtesy Fred La Plante)

Neighbors

Living and Growing: You are not alone

Those words can pull us back toward hope, especially when we’ve just heard painful news.

Photo by James Brooks / Alaska Beacon Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy greets a child during the governor’s annual holiday open house on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2022 at the Governor’s Mansion in Juneau.

News

Pipeline deal and disasters were highlight and low point of 2025, Alaska governor says

Alaska’s traditional industries got a boost from the Trump administration, but more drilling and mining are likely years…

Faith Myers stands at the doors of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute in Anchorage. (Photo courtesy Faith Myers, file)

Opinion

Alaska’s system of protecting Trust beneficiaries is 40 years behind best practice

The lower 48 has a 3-century headstart on protecting people in locked psychiatric facilities.

Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal Text messages between Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and President Donald Trump.

Opinion

Commentary: Alaska’s governor said he texts Trump. I asked for copies.

A couple of months ago, I was reporting on the typhoon that hit Western Alaska and stopped by…

The whale sculpture at Overstreet park breaches at sunrise on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (Mari Kanagy/Juneau Empire)

Neighbors

Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Dec. 22-28

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

Jeff Lund photo The author practices in case he had the chance to be Jimmy from the 1986 movie Hoosiers. He never got the chance on the basketball floor, but had moments in life in which he needed to be clutch.

Neighbors

Opinion: Everyone wants to be Jimmy

Sports, and the movie “Hoosiers,” can teach you lessons in life

veggies File Photo Community organizations that serve food at their gatherings can do a lot by making menus of whole, nutritious offerings according to health and wellness coach Burl Sheldon.

Opinion

Food served by “groups for good” can be health changemakers

Health and wellness coach thinks change can start on community event menus

Laura Rorem (courtesy photo)

Neighbors

Living and Growing: Gracious, gentle power

Gracious power is grace expressed with kindness and mercy.

Hiking down from Dan Moller cabin in mid-January 2025. (photo courtesy John Harley)

Neighbors

Sustainable Alaska: Skiing on the edge

The difference between a great winter for skiing and a bad one can be a matter of a…

Patrick Sullivan stands by an acid seep on July 15,2023. Sullivan is part of a team of scientists who tested water quality in Kobuk Valley National Park’s Salmon River and its tributaries, where permafrost thaw has caused acid rock drainage. The process is releasing metals that have turned the waters a rusty color. A chapter in the 2025 Arctic Report Card described “rusting rivers” phenomenon. (Photo by Roman Dial/Alaska Pacific University)

News

Ecosystem shifts, glacial flooding and ‘rusting rivers’ among Alaska impacts in Arctic report

NOAA’s 2025 report comes despite Trump administration cuts to climate science research and projects

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 1, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)

News

Moderate US House Republicans join Dems to force vote on extension of health care subsidies

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in the U.S. House will face a floor vote in early 2026 on Democrats’…

Gift card displays, such as this one in a CVS in Harlem, N.Y., have been a source of concerns for lawmakers hoping to combat gift card fraud. “Card draining,” or stealing numbers from poorly packaged cards, is one of the costliest and most common consumer scams, and states are trying to combat it with consumer alerts, arrests and warning signs on store displays. (Photo by Robbie Sequeira/Stateline)

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Alaskans targeted by scammers posing as government officials, FBI warns

The FBI reports Alaskans lost over $26.2 million to internet-based scams in 2024, with $1.3 million of those…

Construction equipment operating at night at the White House. (photo by Peter W. Stevenson/The Washington Post)

Opinion

Opinion: Gold at the center of power

What the White House’s golden ballroom reveals about Modern America

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Letters to the Editor

Letter: Trump’s language seeks to diminish an entire community

“Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Juneau as pictured from the Downtown Public Library on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2025. (Mari Kanagy/Juneau Empire)

Neighbors

Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Dec. 15-21

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

The trans-Alaska pipeline, seen on Oct. 8, 2008, threads over snow-covered terrain in the Brook Range foothills. A gryfalcon is perched on one of the pipeline’s thermosphyons in the lower center of the photo. (Photo by Craig McCaa/U.S. Bureau of Land Management)

News

Alaska revenue forecast predicts more oil, but its importance to the state budget is declining

The Permanent Fund, not oil, is Alaska’s No. 1 source of general-purpose money and has been for years