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It's a police car until you look closely. The eye shies away, the . (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Thursday, July 28, 2022

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(Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

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Alaska State Troopers: Teen kills 3 siblings, himself

The children who are dead were ages 5, 8, 17 and 15.

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, July 26, 2022

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Wild iris (Iris setosa) comes in a variety of shades, from the usual purple to pale lavender or reddish. (Courtesy Photo / Denise Carroll)

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On the Trails: Considering variation in flower colors

There’s way more than blue genes.

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Opinion: A conversation about mental health

All in all, we want you to know that you are not alone.

This aerial photo provided by the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service shows a tundra fire burning near the community of St. Mary's, Alaska, on June 10, 2022. Alaska's remarkable wildfire season includes over 530 blazes that have burned an area more than three times the size of Rhode Island, with nearly all the impacts, including dangerous breathing conditions from smoke, attributed to fires started by lightning. (Ryan McPherson / Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service)

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Alaska experiencing wildfires it’s never seen before

Already more than 530 wildfires have burned an area the size of Connecticut.

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Opinion: Controlling women’s bodies — the coming tsunami

The Thomas Court wants to return us to the days before the 1960s, preferably to 1776.

A burned hillside where crews are planting seedlings including Giant Sequoia in Mountain Home State Demonstration Forest outside Springville, Calif., on April 26, 2022. Destructive fires in recent years that burned too hot for forests to quickly regrow have far outpaced the government's capacity to replant trees. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez / San Francisco Chronicle)

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U.S. to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests

A tree-mendous effort

A Princess Cruise Line ship is docked in Juneau on Aug. 25, 2021. (Michael Lockett / Juneau Empire File)

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Ships in Port for the week of July 24

Here’s what to expect this week.

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Recogntions for the week of July 24

Awards and honors.

It's a police car until you look closely. The eye shies away, the . (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Friday, July 22, 2022

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It's a police car until you look closely. The eye shies away, the . (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Saturday, July 23, 2022

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Neighbors

Coming Out: In praise of open windows

Listen:

A Hills Bros. coffee can found at an old cabin on the Fortymile River. (Courtesy Photo / Ned Rozell)

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Alaska Science Forum: A field guide to old coffee cans

Can you dig it?

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Opinion: The autocratic decision making for Cascade Point

Sufficient information hasn’t been provided for Cascade Point.

Alexander B. Dolitsky

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Opinion: Richard Nixon, a fur coat, and an escape from the Soviet Union

Leo, wherever you are now. Give me a call. Let’s chat!

This March 2020 photo shows the City and Borough of Juneau City Hall. Voters will be asked again this fall if they want to extend a 1% temporary sales tax for another five years and city leaders are in the process of making a priority list of how the money would be spent if approved. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Should Juneau’s Assembly take sides in a municipal election?

“This is an inappropriate use of public money.”

To say that our community and culture is riddled with political and social potholes is an understatement. (Unsplash / Matt Duncan)

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Living & Growing: Driving safely on the road of life

May I invite all of us to slow down, especially when it comes to passing judgment…

Evidence markers are placed around the scene of a shooting in Centennial Park campground in Anchorage, Alaska, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (Bill Roth / Anchorage Daily News)

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Officer, man wounded in shootout at Anchorage homeless camp

Both were taken to the hospital and are expected to survive, police said.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., makes a point during an event with Democratic women House members and advocates for reproductive freedom ahead of the vote on the Right to Contraception Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. She is flanked by Rep. Kathy Manning, D-N.C., and Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill. Democrats are pushing legislation through the House that would inscribe the right to use contraceptives into law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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House OKs bill to protect contraception from Supreme Court

The measure drew a mixed reaction from two of the Senate’s more moderate Republicans.