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Traversing the Mendenhall Glacier
While many were celebrating Easter and Passover with loved ones this past weekend, the University of Alaska Southeast…
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Planet Alaska: Spring is sneaking into Alaska
Spring, Taakw eetí, is sneaking into Alaska again. Fairbanks and Juneau are still covered in snow. In Sitka,…
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Southeast in Sepia: The Chilkoot Railroad & Transport Company
The Chilkoot Railroad &Transport Company (otherwise known as the CR&T Company) was the longest, most sophisticated and best…
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What’s Happening the week of April 4-10
Partners in Healing, April 5, 5:15 p.m., Gold Town Theater. This film discusses the partnership between western medicine…
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Making sustainable music
A pallet, planks from an old dock in Dillingham, and a used skateboard are all things that George…
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In focus: The Juneau Icefield Research Program
This summer, a group of about 30 students will step into the most unique classroom they will ever…
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Alaska calls Hope home
Among this year’s Alaska Folk Festival lineup of artists is Hope Griffin, a singer/songwriter based out of Asheville,…
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Wild, wonderful and cheap Yukon family canoe float trips
Southeast Alaska offers countless amazing outdoors opportunities but, due to our rugged and glaciated topography, there aren’t that…
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Snow buntings
As a few green shoots popped up in intertidal meadows and along the beach fringes in the middle…
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Wild Shots
Reader-submitted images of Mother Nature in Southeast Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for…
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Alaska for Real: The secret life of logging dogs
If you stroll down Clay Street in Portland, Oregon’s Central Eastside District you’ll spy an odd looking, small…
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Going for grouse
Enthusiasm can enhance skill, but it can’t replace experience. In my effort to become a better Alaskan, I…
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What’s Happening the week of March 28-April 3
Raincounty Flyfishers meeting, Wednesday, March 28, 7 p.m., Thunder Mountain High School Library. It will soon be time…
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On Passover, imagine this pitch for a proposed movie
A ruthless, greedy ruler versus a social justice activist who is the leader of an oppressed group. Deceit,…
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Art exhibits, food samples and an app launch this First Friday
There’s some fascinating events happening this First Friday in downtown Juneau, from art exhibits, chances to sample products,…
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Tlingit man named president of Wisconsin tribal college
Dr. Paul F. Trebian, originally from Alaska, has been named the president of the College of Menominee Nation…
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Annual rose sale now open
Roses are red, violets are blue, you can brighten someone’s day and donate to a good cause, too.…
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Finding life’s answers
What is your purpose in life? Who should you be helping? Should you change jobs? How can you…
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Juneau is an adjective
On Wednesday, my family, friends and I decided to spend the morning hiking DuPont Trail. It’s the first…
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Signs of spring
The days get longer and longer, and folks in Juneau begin to wish that spring would hurry up…