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Cancer Connection offers ‘Let’s Talk’ program training

Cancer Connection will offer its “Let’s Talk” program training Nov. 17 from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Mendenhall Valley…

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Baby Box program to be launched in Juneau

Bartlett Regional Hospital Foundation donated $36,036 to Bartlett Regional Hospital’s Bartlett Beginnings on Nov. 10 for the purchase…

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Student activism for homeless youth

The Juneau-Douglas High School Interact Club, Thunder Mountain High School Interact Club and JDHS Sources of Strength Club…

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JFH&BC gives thanks for fundraising help

The Juneau Family Health and Birth Center expresses great gratitude to our friends and supporters following our first…

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Recent Births for Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital • A daughter, Athena Daisy Mae Orendorff, weighing 8 lbs. 14 oz.,…

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Girls on the Run coordinator named Hometown Hero by Glamour Magazine

Girls on the Run of Greater Alaska program coordinator Rachel Wintz, 24, was named Alaska’s Hometown Hero in…

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Senior Menu for Nov. 16-20, 2015

Juneau Senior Center Menu Monday, Nov. 16 Sloppy Joe Steamed carrots Potato Salad Tuesday, Nov. 17 Pot Roast…

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Becoming Alaskan: Winter means trying new things

“You better run — that’s a moose behind you!” Only in Alaska is this a realistic threat of…

Wendy Wall

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Living & Growing: Give thanks, always

As Thanksgiving Day approaches, it is a good time to pause and reflect on blessings in life. Of…

Donavan Bell, UAS B.S. Biology, and biology undergraduate Josh Russell help track returns of spawning salmon at the NOAA Auke Creek Fish Weir.

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UAS yields key data for fishing industry

For years growing up in Juneau, Donovan Bell walked, drove and rode his bike past one of the…

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NOAA outlines whale protection rules for Navy testing

The National Marine Fisheries Service has outlined rules to protect whales and other marine mammals during testing conducted…

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Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute gets new director

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute has named Alexa Tonkovich its new executive director. Tonkovich previously served as the…

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Video captures skier’s 1,600-foot fall

ANCHORAGE — A professional skier who walked away after falling 1,600 feet down an Alaska mountain says the…

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Weird world of northern dinosaurs coming into focus

During Patrick Druckenmiller’s not-so-restful sabbatical year, he is flying to museums around the world. In Alberta a few…

Three magpies contemplate tricking an eagle out of its lunch.

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On the Trails: Magpies

Juneau sees magpies in fall, winter, and early spring, outside of the nesting season. They come to us…

Volunteers work to install a split rail cedar fence along Jordan Creek. They hope the fence will prevent plowed snow, and its accompanying contaminants, from entering the creek.

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Saving Jordan Creek

In certain places, it’s easy to forget about Jordan Creek: its lower reaches run between parking lots, shopping…

A shooter lines up on a clay target at the first annual fall Juneau Trap Team Invitational Shoot, which happened Nov. 7.

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31 kids compete in first fall trap tournament

Thirty-one trap team athletes from Petersburg, Sitka, Haines, and Rabbit Creek, as well as the Houston Hawks, the…

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Chasing Shadows premiere

Eaglecrest Ski Area is premiering Warren Miller Entertainment’s new snowsports film, Chasing Shadows, at the Rockwell Ballroom Nov.…

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Fall fun fest at the glacier tomorrow

The US Forest Service is hosting a family event at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center from 10:30 a.m.…

A brown bear makes eye contact with a camera in Denali National Park & Preserve this August.

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Wild Shots

The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or plant life. Send your…