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Police calls for Tuesday, July 14, 2020

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Police calls for Tuesday, July 14, 2020

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

Linda Kruger approaches Father Brown’s Cross and the finish of the Juneau Trail and Road Runners Mount Roberts Tram Run on Mount Roberts Trail. The event sponsored annually by the Goldbelt Mount Roberts Tramway. (Courtesy Photo | Jeff Gnass)

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Dozens participate in distanced Mount Roberts Trail run

Fastest time was just over 24 minutes.

Protesters: Caribou heart meant to send message to senator

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Protesters: Caribou heart meant to send message to senator

May says Sullivan reminded him of the robotic Tin Man, and he wanted to give him a heart.

City seeks hotline employees

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City seeks hotline employees

Duties include screening for COVID-19 testing.

Will they demolish a former Methodist boarding school where the Alaska territorial flag was first flown almost a century ago?

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Will they demolish a former Methodist boarding school where the Alaska territorial flag was first flown almost a century ago?

By MARK THIESSEN

Opinion: Here’s why I’m voting for the oil tax referendum

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Opinion: Here’s why I’m voting for the oil tax referendum

I hope everyone votes yes on Proposition 1.

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., shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, orange, isolated from a patient. (NIAID/National Institutes of Health via AP)

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State reports 116 new cases, 3 in Juneau

It’s a new record.

Police calls for Sunday, July 12, 2020

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Police calls for Sunday, July 12, 2020

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

Living & Growing: ‘The last shall be first and the first shall be last’

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Living & Growing: ‘The last shall be first and the first shall be last’

“The last shall be first and the first shall be last.”

Opinion: The quackery economics of libertarian ideologues

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Opinion: The quackery economics of libertarian ideologues

Taxes aren’t the only factor in oil production.

Opinion: I agree, Sullivan needs to speak up

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Opinion: I agree, Sullivan needs to speak up

My compliments on the July 5 opinion piece by Rich Moniak in the Empire.

A grizzly bear roams an exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo, closed for nearly three months because of the coronavirus outbreak in Seattle. Grizzly bears once roamed the rugged landscape of the North Cascades in Washington state but few have been sighted in recent decades. The federal government is scrapping plans to reintroduce grizzly bears to the North Cascades ecosystem. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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Conservation groups upset by North Cascades grizzly decision

Decision draws rebukes from conservation groups, who have worked to grow the tiny population.

Tribes struggle to meet deadline to spend virus relief aid

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Tribes struggle to meet deadline to spend virus relief aid

They must quickly decide how to spend more than $714 million in federal virus relief money,

Gavel (Courtesy photo)

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Judge declines to block virus aid to businesses

“The current situation is too grave,” he said.

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)

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State reports 55 cases, 1 in Juneau

Hospital employee among those testing positive.

Proof of the past: These rock formations offer evidence of an ice-free Alaska

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Proof of the past: These rock formations offer evidence of an ice-free Alaska

It’s hard to believe Alaska’s cold heart was grassland when Manhattan and Chicago were under blue ice.

Police calls for Friday, July 10, 2020

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Police calls for Friday, July 10, 2020

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

Board of Regents announced interim president candidates

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Board of Regents announced interim president candidates

One is from Juneau.

The University of Alaska Board of Regents will meet this and next week to select an interim president. (Peter Segall | Juneau Empire File)

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University board to meet to select interim president

Meetings scheduled for this and next week.

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)

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State counts 49 new COVID-19 cases

46 residents were among the total.