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Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé volleyball seniors Neveah Alexander, Nina Jeter, Maxi Lehulie, Tatum Billings, Evelyn Richards and Val Mausia were honored before Friday night’s game against Wasilla at the George Houston Gymnasium. (Klas Stolpe/Juneau Empire)

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JDHS volleyball team celebrates seniors, but falls to Wasilla in straight sets

Crimson Bears fall 25-17, 25-17, 25-12 to defending state champion Warriors.

Homes and streets in the Mendenhall Valley are swamped by record flooding from the Mendenhall River on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (Photo by Rich Ross)

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Biden OKs federal disaster declaration for Suicide Basin flood, as Congress battles over approving more funds

Other U.S. disasters are straining available assistance; SBA loan program is out of money.

Members of the Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears wrestling team are shown at the Juneau Wrestling Center during practice on Wednesday. (Klas Stolpe/Juneau Empire)

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JDHS name returns to wrestling team, spirit remains for defending TMHS Region V title

Crimson Bears open season at two-day Hoonah Invitational starting Friday.

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé senior varsity volleyball players Tatum Billings, Evelyn Richards and Nina Jeter will celebrate senior night against Wasilla on Friday. Not pictured are JV senior Neveah Alexander and C Team seniors Maxie Lehauli, Val Mausia, Sophia Perry and Olivia Hickman. (Klas Stolpe/Juneau Empire)

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JDHS spikers to host Wasilla on senior night

Eight Crimson Bear volleyball players to be recognized before Friday’s varsity game.

Salmon dry on a rack in Quinhagak, a Yup’ik village in Western Alaska, in July 2023. Salmon is a staple of the traditional Indigenous diet in Alaska and one of the main foods harvested through subsistence practices. A new rule made final by the Department of the Interior is aimed at boosting tribal participation in subsistence management. (Alice Bailey/University of Alaska Fairbanks)

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New rule adds three Alaska tribal representatives to federal board managing subsistence

Federal government also announces three agreements with tribal organizations on lands, water management.

These materials are mailed to Alaska voters who request absentee ballots. Clockwise, from the top right: The envelope from the Alaska Division of Elections, the return envelope, the ballot and instructions. (Andrew Kitchenman/Alaska Beacon)

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As dropbox program ends, most Alaska absentee voters will pay $1.46 to cast their ballots

The Alaska Division of Elections has not continued a ballot dropbox program operated in coordination with the Municipality…

The front page of the Juneau Empire on Oct. 13, 1994. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)

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Empire Archives: Juneau’s history for the week ending Oct. 19

Three decades of capital city coverage.

A map shows Douglas Island between Outer Point and Point Hilda, where Goldbelt Inc. owns about 1,800 acres of land. The urban Alaska Native corporation announced Wednesday it and Royal Caribbean Group are exploring a proposed cruise ship port with two floating docks and “a recreated 1800s Alaska Native Tlingit village” on the property. (Google Maps image)

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West Douglas cruise port proposed by Goldbelt and Royal Caribbean, to surprise and dismay of city officials

Two-ship floating dock, recreated 1800s Tlingit village envisioned on island as soon as 2027.

Juvencio Garcia (right) has people sign in to stay at the city’s cold-weather emergency shelter in Thane on the first night of its second year of operation Tuesday. Garcia was among those who stayed at the shelter last year and said he hopes to provide the help shelter staff from the first season provided him. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)

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Warming shelter opens for second season hoping to provide clients, staff and neighbors more relief

Indoor bathrooms, smoking breaks among changes meant to lessen first-year tensions.

Members of the Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé cross-country team pose for a photo while attending the Nike Hole In The Wall XC Invitational at Lakewood High School in Washington. (Photo courtesy JDHS Cross-Country)

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JDHS cross-country team celebrate season’s end with trip to Washington race

Crimson Bears harriers compete at Nike Hole In The Wall Invitational

Glacier Swim Club athletes Emma Fellman, Valerie Peimann and Lily Francis stand with coach Scott Griffith in a corn field after competing in a meet in Lake Oswego, Oregon, over the weekend. (Photo courtesy Glacier Swim Club)

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Glacier Swim Club trio competes in Oregon

Fellman, Peimann, Francis record first-place strokes.

In an undated photo via Carol Ann Hafner, Eric Hafner. Hafner, who is serving a 20-year sentence, is running to represent a state in which he has never set foot. He could play the spoiler under Alaska’s ranked-choice system. (Via Carol Ann Hafner via The New York Times)

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How a man imprisoned in New York could sway Alaska’s key U.S. House race

In close race between Peltola and Begich that may determine House majority, Eric Hafner is a bizarre twist.

A line of vehicles responds to the scene of a fatal wreck at Egan Drive and Mendenhall Loop Road on April 26, 2023. The two-vehicle crash involved a car and a truck, with a female passenger inside the truck pronounced dead at the scene. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire file photo)

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Juneau man arrested for manslaughter, DUI after woman’s death in 2023 vehicle collision

Passenger in truck driven by Patrick Dealexandro, 57, killed in crash at busy Egan Drive intersection.

(Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)

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JPD vehicle involved in collision at Douglas Bridge that closes part of Egan Drive for three hours

Officer treated and released at hospital for injuries, passenger of other car released at scene.

Neil Steininger (left) and Maureen Hall are the two newly elected members of the Juneau Assembly, according to results of the Oct. 1 municipal election certified on Tuesday. (Photo of Steininger by Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire; photo of Hall provided by the City and Borough of Juneau)

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Certified election results put Steininger and Hall on Assembly, sink Saturday cruise ship ban

Turnout of 38.7% is fifth-highest in local election since 2000 — but well below most in prior decade.

Snow falls on the Alaska Capitol and the statue of William Henry Seward on Monday, April 1, 2024. (James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)

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Alaska Capitol may begin screening all visitors in 2025, according to draft security proposal

An airport-style security screening checkpoint could be coming to the Alaska State Capitol, ending decades of open public…

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé’s Leila Cooper, June Troxel and Braith Dihle dive for the ball during their 25-19, 25-16, 25-15 victory over Ketchikan High School at the Clarke Cochrane Gymnasium on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024. (Christopher Mullen/ Ketchikan Daily News)

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Crimson Bears volleyball team sweeps Kings at Kayhi

Wins ensure JDHS will be the Southeast Conference regular-season champions going into postseason.

People dance to music by The Muskeg Collective during KTOO’s 50-Fest on Saturday night at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)

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KTOO packs a half century of programming into a six-hour 50-Fest anniversary celebration

Ten mini-concerts, plus interviews, theater and tributes showcase public broadcasting outlet’s history.

Commercial fishing boats are lined up at the dock at Seward’s harbor on June 22. Numerous economic forces combined last year to create a $1.8 billion loss for the Alaska seafood industry, and related losses affected other states, according to a new report. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

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Alaska’s seafood industry lost $1.8 billion last year, NOAA report says

A variety of market forces combined with fishery collapses occurring in a rapidly changing environment caused Alaska’s seafood…

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé senior Alex Rehfeldt and senior Milina Mazon play a ball during their mixed doubles match for the 2024 ASAA Tennis Championship on Saturday at Anchorage’s Alaska Club. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

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Crimson Bears ‘mix it up’ for tennis state championship

JDHS seniors Mazon and Rehfeldt champs, junior Welch third.