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Emily Chao, standing, watches as her sister Anabelle, works on a writing exercise after they finished remote learning for the day, as their mom Erica sits, back left, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, at their home in North Miami Beach, Fla. Rather than wait to see how the Miami-Dade school system would handle instruction this fall, Erica Chao enrolled her two daughters in a private school that seemed better positioned to provide remote learning than their public elementary school was when the coronavirus first reached Florida. (AP Photo / Wilfredo Lee)

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Nationwide enrollment drops worry public schools as pandemic persists

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Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Corri A. Feige.

Opinion

Opinion: Thank-you, wildland firefighters

I join the president in conveying my deepest appreciation to all those who fight wildland fires.

This photo shows the Alaska State Capitol. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Alaska may have illegally directed $5M consulting contract

Former Alaska state employees said they believe a government consulting contract was illegal.

A 9-year-old Carl Tape — now a seismologist at UAF’s Geophysical Institute — poses beside a thermometer registering 50 below zero Fahrenheit during a Fairbanks cold snap in January 1989. (Courtesy Photo / Walt Tape)

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Cold tolerance not the same for everyone

What makes someone hot-blooded when others are cold as ice?

Courtesy Image / U.S Forest ServiceThis image shows the location of the proposed Hecla Greens Creek Mine extension.

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Forest Service takes comment on proposed mine extension

45-day scoping period is underway.

This electron microscope image made available and color-enhanced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md., in 2020, shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, orange, isolated from a patient. (NIAID/National Institutes of Health)

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Hockey tournament attendees advised to isolate

That applies to over 300 people, including Juneauites.

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Police calls for Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020

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

A harlequin duck flies in front of Jeff Lund, who decided sometimes a camera is better than a shotgun for shooting when dinner has been secured. (Jeff Lund / For the Juneau Empire)

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Duck, duck, jalapeno popper

To really love music, you have to at least appreciate different styles. Same goes with hunting.

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Letters to the Editor

Alaska needs clarity, accuracy from its intellectual leaders

Alaska needs intellectual leaders to provide their expertise in accurately assessing policy…

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Opinion

Opinion: Nuclear launch ‘football’ must immediately be taken from Trump

We are at another moment of grave threat from an erratic, delusional, self-destructive megalomaniac

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Letters to the Editor

Opinion: The Senate must provide a check against failed leadership

Please vote to welcome Dr. Al Gross to the new Senate majority.

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Opinion

Opinion: Rapid tests must be implemented to save travel industry

The war we must fight now is COVID-19.

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Opinion

Opinion: Ballot Measure 2 puts voters first

This is a law creating transparency.

A jar holding stink currant jelly is (Vivian Faith Prescott / For the Capital City Weekly)

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Planet Alaska: Stink currants and landslides

Currant events.

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Letters to the Editor

Opinion: It’s clear which candidates have the backs of Alaska’s energy community

There’s a clear distinction between the major candidates for president, U.S. Senate and U.S. House.

In this May 7, 2020 photo, Sen. Dan Sullivan wears a mask at a hearing in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch / Pool)

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Opinion: Alaska is fortunate to have Dan Sullivan

The stakes have never been so important.

This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 particle isolated from a patient, in a laboratory in Fort Detrick, Md. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID/NIH via AP)

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State announces 116 new COVID-19 cases

All are residents.

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Police calls for Tuesday, Oct. 6

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

Arctic bristletails, like the ones shown in this photo, are wingless insects that live along the shoreline. (Courtesy Photo / Aaron Baldwin)

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We’re still learning about these unusual insects

The’ve been around for 400 million years.

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Opinion: You be the judge of who should be our senator

You have a true Alaskan in Washington who has stood and delivered.