Site Logo
tease

News

Planet Alaska: Spruce tip bathing

The perfect spruce tip is tightly bound needles without the brown papery casing.

I have flies with barbell eyes, jig heads, cone heads, bead heads and no heads. I have flies with stinger hooks that trail and long-shanked salmon hooks that don’t. I have red, pink, salmon, fuchsia, cerise, purple, orange, flesh, green, olive, chartreuse, white and black flies made of feathers, chenille, hackle, marabou, flashabou and silicone. (Jeff Lund / For the Juneau Empire)

News

I Went to the Woods: One good fish

Three is the magic number.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland appears before the Senate Appropriations Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

News

Senators press Interior Secretary Haaland on oil lease pause

Murkowski said she was flabbergasted that Haaland did not address the court ruling.

Kate Troll (Courtesy Photo / Kate Troll)

Opinion

Opinion: Turn My PFD into a PFD (a personal floatation device) for future generations

By Kate Troll

teasers

Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Anti-PFAS bills are important for future Alaskans’ health

The good news is the solution is at our finger tips.

A male western tanager’s red color comes by a different pathway than the yellow, although both are carotenoid pigments. (Courtesy Photo / Kerry Howard)

News

On the Trails: On tanagers and silverweed

We live near the northern limit of the western tanager range.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry speaks in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water was blocked Tuesday, June 15, 2021, by a federal judge in Louisiana. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty’s ruling came in a lawsuit filed in March by Louisiana’s Republican attorney general, Jeff Landry and officials in 12 other states. Doughty’s ruling granting a preliminary injunction to those states said his order applies nationwide. (AP Photo / Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

News

Federal judge blocks Biden’s pause on new oil, gas leases

The decision is a blow to Biden’s efforts to rapidly transition the nation away from fossil fuels.

It's a police car until you look closely and see the details don't quite match. (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

News

Police calls for Tuesday, June 15, 2021

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

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

News

COVID at a glance for Friday, June 11

The most recent state and local figures.

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

News

COVID at a glance for Wednesday, June 16

The most recent state and local figures.

State Rep. Neal Foster, D-Nome, second from left, listens as Rep. Bart LeBon, far left,R-Fairbanks, foreground, speaks during a budget conference committee meeting in Juneau, Alaska, on Sunday, June 13, 2021. Alaska legislators who are leading negotiators on a committee tasked with hashing out differences on a state spending package said they would like to reach a tentative agreement as early as Sunday. (AP Photo / Becky Bohrer)

News

Lawmakers reach tentative deal on budget, dividend

Negotiators reached a tentative agreement Sunday on a package that includes an estimated $1,100 PFD.

t

Opinion

Opinion:Term limits, discretionary voting deserve same rules as trust resolution

Thoughts on potential resolutions.

Web tease

Neighbors

Juneau students earn academic honors, degrees

Recognitions for the week of June 13, 2021.

It's a police car until you look closely and see the details don't quite match. (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

News

Police calls for Sunday, June 13, 2021

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

Koala teaser

Neighbors

Slack Tide: I’m so tired

Dealing with summertime exhaustion.

teaser

Opinion

Opinion: Voting rights and the majority’s minority

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., is right to oppose H.R. 1, the “For the People Act.”

ason Clark, at left, a postdoctoral researcher at UAF, and Nicholas Hasson, a UAF graduate student, examine a sinkhole known as a thermokarst in a Fairbanks homeowner’s backyard. (Courtesy Photo / Ned Rozell)

News

Alaska Science Forum: The sinking feeling over much of Alaska

A ‘hole’ lot going on.

It's a police car until you look closely and see the details don't quite match. (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

News

Police calls for Friday, June 11, 2021

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

Page Bridges (Courtesy Photo / Page Bridges)

Neighbors

Living & Growing: Spiraling into Control

A paradox is that when one blows in the wind like a leaf, one needs to be grounded.

(Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion

Opinion: Should we move forward or look back on cruise ship tourism?

The best solutions will always be attained by moving forward.