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April observations
Mid-April found us enjoying warm, sunny days, but the nights were still very cool. The ice continued to…
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Revisiting a dream, 20 years later
Twenty years ago, I was 34 when I walked away from a chain-link fence near Port Valdez and…
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Wild Shots: Photos of Mother Nature in Alaska
Reader-submitted images of Mother Nature in Southeast Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for…
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Hold onto your dogs, the birds are back
From lanky sandhill cranes to petite red-necked phalaropes, migratory birds are appearing statewide in ever-increasing numbers, adding life…
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Ghost Town Treasure: From Alaska to Montana
We’d only had internet for a few months in the winter of 2015 when my mom asked if…
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Art in Unusual Places
The Capital City Weekly welcomes reader-submitted photos of art in unusual or unexpected places. To submit, email your…
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A musical line stretching through time
How do you define “music?” That’s something Ed Littlefield thought about for six months as part of an…
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Southeast’s shellfish safety squad
Katlian Street in Sitka is a bustling cultural and fishing hub. Along this winding harbor-side road, tightly squeezed…
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Artist tour of Southeast holds discussions on signal-to-noise in communities’ lives
This week, a group of five artists are sleeping in a ferry’s solarium, chatting with strangers and admiring…
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Tundra swans take two distinct paths to Alaska
Skiing to work over a persistent spring snowpack, I looked up to see a large white bird flapping…
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Why do bumblebees buzz near certain people?
On a gorgeously sunny day in mid-April, a group of hikers stopped for lunch on the beach near…
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UAS students scale mountain in Juneau Icefield
College classes can be exhausting. Especially when the curriculum includes climbing a mountain. This was the case for…
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Spotting discrimination through steaks
Ask me if I would eat a burnt steak and I’ll have to ask you what you mean…
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40 signs spring is back in Juneau
Mud Season, Shoulder Season, No-Good-Movies-Until-Memorial-Day Season. Call it what you will, spring has returned to Juneau, a magical…
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Wild Shots: Photos of Mother Nature in Alaska
Reader-submitted images of Mother Nature in Southeast Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for…
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Art in Unusual Places
The Capital City Weekly welcomes reader-submitted photos of art in unusual or unexpected places. To submit, email your…
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Mini Comic Con returns to Juneau Friday
Last year’s Mini Comic Con turned out to be huge by Juneau’s standards. It packed the Juneau Arts…
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Juneau writer pens first mystery novel of series
Many know Juneau writer Peggy Barnhill for her “Gimme a Smile” column with the Juneau Empire. Soon, however,…
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UAF graduate students to share salmon discoveries at State Museum
The public is invited to join graduate students from the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and…
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SECON supports youth fund
SECON Southeast Alaska recently made a generous donation of $10,000 to the Juneau Community Foundation’s newly established Youth…