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Gimme A Smile: What national day is it today?

You don’t need to wait until May 31 to smile.

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Police calls for Sunday, April 25, 2021

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

Wolf tracks on a winter trail not far from Fairbanks. (Courtesy Photo / Ned Rozell)

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Alaska Science Forum: Spring arrives on final cabin trip

As we skied along a packed ribbon of snow, the wolf tracks were a surprise.

Cruise ship visitors gather for their tours on the Seawalk on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: We need responsible limits on tourism

Now is the perfect time to rethink before we restart

(Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

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Man suffers ‘serious’ injuries in collision

Wreck is under investigation, police say.

Has it always been a police car? (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire)

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Juneau man arrested on charges connected to sexual assault of a minor

Arrest follows indictment earlier this week.

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Juneau man indicted on charge of sexual assault

Authorities seek information about his location.

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, April 23, 2021

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

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Opinion: Cruise initiatives risk future of Juneau businesses

By Liz Perry

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. A medical director at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control says the numbers of active COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern are higher than what has been publicly reported in the province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID-RML via AP

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COVID at a glance for Friday, April 24

The most recent state and local figures.

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 Thursday, April 22, 2021

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

Guy Crockroft is Executive Director of Love Inc, Juneau. (Courtesy Photo)

Neighbors

Living & Growing: Jesus is coming back. Are you ready?

Let’s do our best to love our neighbors and be salt and light.

This photo shows Emigrant Peak rising above the Paradise Valley and the Yellowstone River near Emigrant, Mont. The Biden administration has nominated a longtime environmental advocate and Democratic aide, Tracy Stone-Manning, to oversee roughly 250 million acres of public lands as director of the Bureau of Land Management. (AP Photo / Matthew Brown)

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Biden taps Montana environmentalist for US public lands boss

She was nominated on Thursday to direct the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management.

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, April 21, 2021

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

Herring eggs coat seaweed after a spawn this May in front of the Blue Mussel Cabin in Berners Bay. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

Letters to the Editor

Opinion: It’s important to protect herring. Here’s why.

Fourth graders from Hoonah write letters urging herring protection.

A red cedar basket fills with red seaweed in Wrangell. (Vivian Faith Prescott / For the Capital City Weekly)

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Planet Alaska: Gathering red seaweed

“My cedar basket is damp with seaweed, and I have relaxed.”

Kate Troll (Courtesy Photo / Kate Troll)

Opinion

Opinion: Juneau’s unique energy situation merits an essential conversation

The conversation may not be easy.

This photo shows the author's first steelhead of the spring. It was the perfect shot and the perfect start for the long-awaited spring. (Jeff Lund / For the Juneau Empire)

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I Went To The Woods: Spring —and steelhead fishing —are finally here

Winter-spring transition was like the never-ending YouTube ads that keep good stuff from starting.

In this March 2020 photo, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation Chief Executive Officer Angela Rodell speaks to the Greater Juneau Chamber of Commerce in Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion

Opinion: APFC has a vision for Alaska’s financial anchor

Laud the vision of the past and look forward.

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. A medical director at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control says the numbers of active COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern are higher than what has been publicly reported in the province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID-RML via AP

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COVID at a glance for Thursday, April 22

The most recent state and local figures.