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Opinion: Voting yes on Ballot Measure 1 is voting yes for Alaska

We should be partners with the oil industry, not junior partners.

This photo shows western bog laurel. (Courtesy Photo / Vivian Mork Yéilk’)

News

Planet Alaska: Southeast Alaska Traditional Plants Summit and Celebration: Protecting what we love

I miss harvesting with my friends and family around Alaska.

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Writers’ Weir: Blindsided

Do they know yet? They didn’t.

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Opinion

Opinion: Why I’m choosing Gross again

Now, 25 years later, we are again choosing Al Gross, this time as our candidate for the U.S.…

Decoy geese can’t fly away…except perhaps during an October storm. (Jeff Lund / Juneau Empire)

News

Earning the ‘local’ title

If October was a fish, it would be a lingcod. Ugly. Nasty. Angry.

Alexander B. Dolitsky

Opinion

Opinion: This ‘white privilege’ mission is a very troubling

Conservatives, describe this rhetoric as a radical neo-Marxist ideology, cancel culture and more.

This is a police car.  It has always been a police car.

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Police calls for Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020

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

Rep. Andi Story, D-Juneau

Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Andi Story works hard for Juneau

Juneau needs every bit of clout in the Legislature as our state faces government deficit.

The Fairweather pulls up to the Auke Bay Terminal in June 2014. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

News

State accepts bids for 2 fast ferries that faced struggles

The state Department of Transportation issued a public notice of the bidding process Thursday.

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Opinion

Opinion: Voting for Galvin or Gross is voting against Alaska

By Ron Somerville

In this May 7, 2020 photo, Sen. Dan Sullivan wears a mask at a hearing in Washington. Sullivan's office released a statement Monday saying the senator would support a confirmation vote to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court even in an election year. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP)

Opinion

Opinion: Sullivan has earned my vote

Senator Sullivan has a proven record of furthering Alaskans’ need.

The Juneau School District building, March 20, 2020. (Michael S. Lockett/ Juneau Empire)

Opinion

Opinion: Can we reopen Juneau schools?

Cowardice in the face of injustice is complicity.

This photos shows colorful bleeding tooth-fungus, sometimes called strawberries and cream (Courtesy Photo / Jos Bakker)

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Fun with 3 fungal curiosities

Mystery, bleeding teeth and bird’s nest fungus.

The Andrew P. Kashevaroff State Library, Archives and Museum building, as seen in this September 2018 photo is temporarily closed due to COVID-19 conditions in Juneau. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

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State library, archives and museum temporarily closes

Closure announced on Tuesday.

A biker leads a line of cars driving off the Homer Spit at about on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, in Homer, Alaska after a tsunami evacuation order was issued for low-lying areas in Homer. (Michael Armstrong / Homer News)

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Earthquake prompts tsunami fears, fleeing

The earthquake struck south of Sand Point, Alaska.

Morning mist is seen on a late September morning near Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. The Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area is part of the Tongass National Forest. A process is underway to enact a polarizing rule change that would exempt the largest national forest from the Roadless Rule. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

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Alaska tribes say agency ignored Tongass exemption request

Tribal officials: The government ignored Alaska Native groups’ requests to uphold the Roadless Rule.

This photo of a by-mail ballot sent to an Alaska voter in October shows Ballot Measure 2. The League of Women Voters of Alaska supports the election reform measure. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

Opinion

League of Women Voters of Alaska supports Ballot Measure 2 — here’s why

The league did not make the decision to support Ballot Measure 2 lightly

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Neighbors

Living & Growing: Imagine having a face-to-face with Jesus

I believe it would be a call to love and trust God and each another.

Rebecca Carrillo (Courtesy Photo)

Neighbors

Juneau woman sworn in as Philippine Honorary Consul for Alaska

The appointment was approved by the Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

A sign in the window of a business on South Franklin Street in downtown Juneau on April 14, 2020. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion

Opinion: Local business — Use it or lose it forever.

There may be more federal funding, but what our local businesses now need most is customers.