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This photo shows the Alaska State Capitol. A committee proposed increasing pay for state lawmakers. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Panel proposes higher Alaska lawmaker pay, allowance change

From $50,400 to $64,000.

Sámi Reindeer People exhibit opening in Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum, Decorah, Iowa. L to R: Marlene Wisuri, Cari Mayo, Nathan Muus, Faith Fjeld, Lois Stover (Sara, Twitchell, Kvamme original Sámi herder families), Marie Olson, Nancy Olson, Pearl Johnson. (Courtesy Photo / Nathan Muus)

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Planet Alaska: Reindeer walkers and Alaska’s reindeer history

The history of reindeer in Alaska is complex.

Avery Skaggs works on a painting. Skaggs' work will be featured in an exhibit at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum that is opening on First Friday. (Courtesy Photo)

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Here’s what’s happening for First Friday

The first Friday of 2022 brings a handful of arts-and-culture-connected events to downtown Juneau.

A sign designates a vote center during the recent municipal election. The center offered a spot for voters to drop off ballots or fill a ballot out in person. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

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Opinion: Another reason to return to in-person voting

Why are we continuing to do mail-in elections?

The 1997-1998 Klawock boys basketball team. The author is in the back, the third player from the right. (Courtesy Photo)

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I Went to the Woods: Region V memories

I Went to the Woods goes to the hardwood.

This photo provided by the U.S. Air Force/Alaska National Guard photo shows the William Miller Memorial School, larger structure top right, which is being severely eroded by the nearby Kuskokwim River in the village of Napakiak, Alaska, on Dec. 3, 2019. The school is just 64 feet (19.51 meters) from the Kuskokwim River, and it's getting closer every year. Just two years ago, the school was less than 200 feet (60.96 meters) from the river. Climate change is a contributing factor in the erosion caused by the Kuskokwim, a river that becomes an ice highway for travelers in the winter. (Airman 1st Class Emily Farnsworth, U.S. Air Force/ Alaska National Guard)

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Southwest Alaska school in race with climate change for new building

BETHEL — A school that is in danger of being lost to erosion because of climate change is…

(Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022

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

(Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Wednesday, Jan. 5

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

A kingfisher’s diving sequence: a headfirst plunge with wings folded, splash, airborne again. (Courtesy Photo / Bob Armstrong)

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On the Trails: Diving into birds underwater

There’s a lot going on under the surface.

Alexander B. Dolitsky

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Opinion: Russian Old Believers in modern Alaska

America is the sunrise for the Russian Old Believers in Alaska.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, leave the chamber after a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, early Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Jay Allen Johnson, 65, who faced charges of sending a series of profanity-laced voice messages to the two senators, entered guilty pleas, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, in federal court in Fairbanks, Alaska, to two counts of threatening to kill a U.S. official. U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline accepted Johnson’s pleas and set sentencing for April 8. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)

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Man who threatened US senators pleads guilty

He faces up 10 years in jail on each charge.

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Thank you for promoting mental health in Juneau

Here’s how it’s helped.

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COVID at a Glance for Monday, Jan. 3

Numbers come from reports from the City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center and the Alaska Department…

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COVID at a Glance for Wednesday, Jan. 5

Numbers come from reports from the City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center and the Alaska Department…

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, NIAID-RML

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COVID at a Glance for Friday, Jan. 7

Numbers come from reports from the City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center and the Alaska Department…

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 Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022

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

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Juneau students earn academic honors, awards

Recognitions for the week of Jan. 2, 2022

A pair of Long-tailed Ducks, Statter Harbor, Auke Bay, Southeast Alaska. (Courtesy Photo / Kenneth Gill, gillfoto)

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Wild Shots: Photos of Mother Nature in Alaska

Reader-submitted photos of Southeast Alaska.

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 Friday, Dec. 31, 2021

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

(Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Southeast hatcheries are criticial to Southeast’s economy

Every Alaskan in our region is impacted by our salmon hatchery program.