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Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad personnel land and disembark from a Hughes 369D helicopter on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, at Temsco Helicopters Inc in Ketchikan, Alaska. The KVRS, U.S. Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers and U.S. Forest Service responded to a radio beacon alert from a downed Southeast Aviation de Havilland Beaver float plane that was carrying five passengers from the Holland America Line cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam, according to Coast Guard, Holland America and KVRS information. The sightseeing plane crashed Thursday in southeast Alaska, killing all six people on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said. (Dustin Safranek / Ketchikan Daily News)

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Coast Guard: 6 dead in sightseeing plane crash

Emergency beacon near Alaska’s Misty Fjords National Monument.

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 Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021

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

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, Aug. 5, 2021

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

Mary McEwen, whose art is shown in this photo, will be Juneau Artist Gallery's featured artist for August. (Courtesy Photo / Mary McEwen)

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Here’s what’s scheduled for First Friday

Virtual galleries and more.

The author expresses a look of...something on a perfect early morning of deer season. (Jeff Lund / For the Juneau Empire)

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I Went to the Woods: When the bucks win

Not basketball.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland appears before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. Haaland has not decided the position she will take on a proposed land exchange aimed at building a road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska, a U.S. government attorney said Wednesday (AP Photo /. J. Scott Applewhite)

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Haaland hasn’t made decision on refuge road issue

By Becky Bohrer

Alexander B. Dolitsky

Opinion

Opinion: U.S. education crises is more social than academic

It is essential to remember that school is not an entertainment center.

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, Aug. 3, 2021

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

(A bumblebee probes a flower of self-heal (Courtesy Photo / Deana Barajas)

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On the Trails: Interesting and overlooked summer flowers

We may neglect some lesser lights that are interesting in their own right.

(Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion

Opinion: City’s move to curb virus spread should be applauded

Please join me in thanking our assembly members, city staff,and mayor for their quick response.

(Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

Letters to the Editor

Why we need a logging-free Tongass

The highly subsidized logging industry has been valued over the natural world…

This undated aerial photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. The Biden administration is suspending oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as it reviews the environmental impacts of drilling in the remote region.(U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

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US will review oil and gas leasing program in Alaska refuge

Interior secretary said she found “multiple legal deficiencies” in a prior review

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Opinion

Opinion: We need the PRO Act. Here’s why

The hard-working men and women of Alaska’s building trades need the PRO Act.

Letters to the Editor

I appreciate Murkowski’s leadership on infrastructure

Thank you to Senator Murkowski.

This photo shows Kelly Crow, Super Bear IGA store director; Kathy Benner, Juneau Raptor Center manager; JP Oudekerk, Super Bear IGA assistant manager; Pat Bock with Juneau Raptor Center; and Rick Wilson, Foodland IGA/Ace Hardware store director. (Courtesy Photo)

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Foodland and Super Bear customers donate to raptor ccenter

Over $4,300 was raised in June.

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 Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021

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This April 2017 photo shows a view of the Fort Lewis College campus backdropped by the La Plata Mountains. The college originated more than a century ago as one of the country's Native American boarding schools(. Courtesy Photo / Fort Lewis College, Wikimedia)

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New calls to search for remains at Native boarding schools

“We just want to make sure families today get the information they’ve been wanting for decades”

In this Oct. 14, 2020 photo, housing activists erect a sign in Swampscott, Mass. A federal freeze on most evictions is set to expire soon. The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, was the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

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Will Alaska financing program ease eviction woes?

Federal moratorium on evictions is expiring.

Karen Harris took a walk up Basin Road at around 10:00 a.m. on Saturday , according to Juneau Police Department. At 9 p.m., police reported she was home safe. (Courtesy Photo / JPD)

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Update: Overdue woman home safe

Police say she is safe.

Joab Cano ( Courtesy Photo)

Neighbors

Living & Growing: The importance of absolute respect

We can step in and stand for absolute respect. Will you speak up?