Site Logo
(Michael Penn / Juneau Empire file photo)

News

Police calls for Monday, June 2, 2025

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

(Michael Penn / Juneau Empire file photo)

News

Police calls for Saturday, May 31, 2025

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

(Michael Penn / Juneau Empire file photo)

News

Police calls for Sunday, June 1, 2025

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

Deputy Municipal Clerk Andi Hirsh (left) explains options for implementing ranked choice voting to Juneau Assembly members during a Committee of the Whole meeting Monday, June 2, 2025, at City Hall. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)

News

Assembly moves forward with influencing this year’s election, ranked choice voting in next year’s

Leaders look at spending $50K this fall with eye on tax issues, introducing RCV ordinance next week.

The shoreline of Kake, a Tlingit village of about 500 people, is seen in 2012. (Alaska Division of Community Affairs photo)

News

Federal appeals court upholds emergency subsistence hunt in village of Kake

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the board which regulates…

People dance in celebration of the Fisherman’s Honor Totem Pole in Hoonah on Friday, May 30, 2025. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

News

Hoonah’s rich fishing history remembered through totem pole

The story of fishermen carved — “all of us in the past, all of us in the future,…

Along the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, pictured here, runs a smaller-diameter natural gas line used to fuel the oil pipeline’s pumps. That small-diameter line could be a source of fuel for a new Bitcoin mining operation on the North Slope. (Arthur T. LaBar/Flickr under Creative Commons License)

News

New Alaska Bitcoin mine would use as much power as the state’s largest coal plant produces

Startup planning operation near North Slope oil fields would power computers with natural gas.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) at an infrastructure and development symposium in Anchorage on April 22, 2025. (Ash Adams/The New York Times)

News

Lisa Murkowski isn’t using ‘nice words’ about life under Trump

Alaska Republican senator could play make-or-break role in pushing back on president’s agenda.

The Marie Drake Planetarium is hosting an open house as part of First Friday in June. (Juneau Arts and Humanities Council image)

News

Here’s what’s happening for First Friday in June

The launch of a publication featuring contributors from Juneau and Palestine, a group chant to singing bowls, and…

A few snow drifts remain on June 18, 2004, on the Arctic coastal plain of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. (Craig McCaa/U.S. Bureau of Land Management)

News

As Trump officials visit Alaska, feds announce plans to remove some restrictions on Arctic drilling

The Trump administration plans to lift environmental protections on roughly half of the National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska’s…

(Michael Penn / Juneau Empire file photo)

News

Police calls for Friday, May 30, 2025

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

The Alaska and American flags fly in front of the Alaska State Capitol on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)

News

Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced a freeze on new state regulations. What does that mean?

Administrative order could affect a ballot measure Alaskans supported in 2024.

Serjoe Gutierrez plays violin with the Kodiak High School Orchestra during warm ups (Brian Venua/KMXT)

News

Alaska schools need teachers. They’re hiring them from the Philippines.

Alaska schools are hiring teachers from the Philippines amid a massive national shortage. It’s the latest wave of…

Kell Morris, left wearing a brown hat, was trapped under a 700-pound boulder near Seward on Saturday, May 24, 2025. (Jason Harrington/Seward Fire Department)

News

Seward man survives 3 hours pinned face down under a 700-pound boulder

Rescuers found Kell Morris with hypothermia and face first in a creek as his wife held his head…

Participants carefully walk through a particularly sticky patch of Gastineau Channel mud at the 2025 Spring Tide Scramble on Saturday, May 31, 2025. (Ellie Ruel / Juneau Empire)

News

Runners brave rain and mud at Juneau’s Spring Tide Scramble

Annual “mud run” draws a sizable crowd to start Juneau Trail and Road Runners’ race season.

A vaccine dose is prepared at a mass vaccination site in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, in 2021. Vaccination rates for Alaska children have declined in recent years, the state reports. (Maryland Executive Office of the Governor photo)

News

Amid national measles outbreaks, vaccination rates for Alaska children have fallen, report says

Measles, once thought eliminated in the U.S., has spread among unvaccinated people.

Three petitions seeking to put questions about altering local tax and election rules on the fall municipal election ballot were turned in to the Juneau city clerk’s office on Friday, May 30, 2025. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)

News

Ballot petitions to lower property and sales taxes, alter election process turned in to CBJ

City has 10 days to review signatures; supporter says more may be needed to get proposals on fall…

Karen Levasseur (left), Cyndy Norbryhn (middle), and Jessica Estes and her daughter May, 7, chat at Rainforest Play Zone in the Mendenhall Mall on Friday, May 30, 2025. The play zone is moving to a different location in the mall, with Hearthside Books and Toys scheduled to move in Rainforest’s current space by September. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)

News

Hearthside Books moving to kids’ play zone at Mendenhall Mall; mall’s owners step in to buy, relocate play area

Move of local bookstore from Nugget Mall announced same week Joanne closes it doors there.

Members of the Juneau Assembly and Juneau Board of Education, along with top administrators for the city and school district, meet jointly on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, at City Hall. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)

News

Local leaders considering ranked choice voting for CBJ elections — with a strong ‘undecided’ tally so far

School board opts to delay its stance until Assembly, which meets Monday, gets more public clarity about proposal.

(Michael Penn / Juneau Empire file photo)

News

Police calls for Monday, May 26, 2025

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