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A brown bear walks along the shore with an iceberg aground at Tracy Arm. (Photo by Scott Spickler)

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Wild Shots: Photos of Mother Nature in Southeast Alaska

Reader-submitted images of Mother Nature in Southeast Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for…

Alpine bistort. (Photo by Bob Armstrong)

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Do you know why this plant is called a ‘live-bearing’ plant?

On one of many dribbly days in July, as I wandered along a beach on North Douglas, I…

A peony blooming in a downtown Juneau garden in late July. (Linda Shaw | For the Juneau Empire)

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Rediscovering the value of landscaping in Kake

We went to Kake to install a landscape around an Elder Housing Project built by Tlingit Haida Regional…

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Recent Births

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: • On July 3, a daughter, Adalina Louise Baylous, weighing 7 pounds,…

Will Ware

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Will Ware appointed to Governor’s Tribal Advisory Council

Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribe of Alaska’s Tribal Transportation Manager Will Ware has been appointed…

Pastor Dan Wiese

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The art of self-control

One of the things I have learned as a Christian, and as a pastor for over 30 years,…

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Fanning, Fangman engaged

Deseray Fanning and James Fangman are engaged to be married. Fanning is the daughter of Daniel and Lori…

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Thank you to Alaska National Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard for food drive

On behalf of the Southeast Alaska Food Bank Board of Directors and volunteers, I would like to thank…

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Jessie Archibald appointed to Alaska Bar Association Area Discipline Committee

Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s Tribal Child Support Unit Manager Jessie Archibald has…

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Join the Juneau Masons for a Civil Cup of Coffee

Mt. Juneau-Gastineaux Lodge No. 21 would like to treat the Capital City to a cup of coffee, beginning…

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UA Board of Regents approves joint UAS-UAF Fisheries degree

Students at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau will now be able to earn a Bachelor of…

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Alaska State Museum honored with national award

The Alaska State Museum will be recognized as one of the nation’s outstanding libraries and museum in Washington,…

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Southeast Alaska Food Bank thanks Dawson Construction for donation

The Southeast Alaska Food Bank Board of Directors and volunteers would like to thank Dawson Construction for its…

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College recognitions and graduations

Graduations • Vincente Ybanez Alinson of Juneau received a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering from Washington State University…

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Three Alaska attorneys named ‘Super Lawyers’

The law firm of Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller, Monkman &Flannery, LLP, with offices in Anchorage and Juneau, is…

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Recent births

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: • On July 12, a daughter, Alice Kay Hubbard, weighing 7 pounds…

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Why is STEM so important?

This is part of a series of monthly columns about STEM in Juneau. One of the best sounds…

UAA graduate student Nathan Harmston shows the thin layers of a caribou’s tooth, which can serve as a natural tracking collar from the past. (Ted Kincaid | University of Alaska Anchorage).

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The case of the buried caribou tooth

At University of Alaska Anchorage, two students are on an interdisciplinary quest to unlock the anthropological and archaeological…

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Writers’ Weir: The Leaf

Some greener, some just blossomed, some have withered and soon will fall. Which one are you? How did…

The next generation of nieces and nephews playing all the same games Tara and her siblings did as kids in the bush. Photos by Tara Neilson.

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Playtime in the Alaska Bush

People sometimes have this idea that living in the bush is serious business, and it can be. But…