This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement agencies. This report includes arrest and citation information, not conviction information. Anyone listed… Continue reading
HELENA, Mont. — Move over, Judge Judy. Alaska’s mama grizzly is getting a gavel.A production company spokesman says former Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a… Continue reading
Police say no one was badly hurt after two vehicles collided around 10 a.m. Tuesday at the “McNugget” intersection of Egan Drive and Glacier Highway… Continue reading
Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club meeting, 7 a.m., The Prospector Hotel.Open lab computer training, 9-11 a.m, The Learning Connection, 210 Ferry Way. Storytime, 11 a.m., Douglas… Continue reading
KENAI — Alaska’s 54 public school districts will soon be preparing to implement programs next year aimed at preventing dating violence and sex abuse.A task… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Alaska officials say they will keep working with federal authorities who turned down a state request for a more than $375 million loan… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a National Park Service ban on the use of hovercraft by a moose hunter within a… Continue reading
The Federal Subsistence Board has ended a decade-long struggle for the Southeast Alaska village of Saxman by restoring its rural designation.As a formally recognized rural… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators will add their strongest warning labels to the most widely-prescribed painkillers, part of a multi-pronged government campaign to stem an… Continue reading
HAVANA — Capping his remarkable visit to Cuba, President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared an end to the “last remnant of the Cold War in… Continue reading
LOS ANGELES — A California family appealed Tuesday to the state’s highest court in their fight to keep a 6-year-old foster child who was removed… Continue reading
BRUSSELS — Bombs exploded Tuesday at the Brussels airport and in the city’s subway, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens, as a European… Continue reading
NEW YORK — The airport attack in Brussels highlights one of the most vulnerable stages of aviation security: the time travelers spend between the curb… Continue reading
STOCKHOLM — Paris, Copenhagen, Brussels. In just over a year three European capitals have been ravaged by bombs and gunfire.After each attack life slowly returns… Continue reading
DAKAR, Senegal — Armed police now patrol the Ivory Coast beach where Islamic extremists killed at least 19 people earlier this month. And in Senegal’s… Continue reading
BANGKOK — Dong Junming was detained several times in his Chinese homeland before he and his family fled to Bangkok in February 2015. A year… Continue reading
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s governing party is seeking to shape the country’s future by controlling perceptions of the past.The conservative Law and Justice party’s strategy… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — Asked earlier this month whether she’d be indicted over her use of a private email server as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton responded:… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — Seven decades after their “we can do it” attitude proved invaluable to the Allied victory in World War II, about 30 “Rosie the… Continue reading
ST. PAUL, Minn. — When a young black man was killed in a confrontation with two police officers last November, Minneapolis became the latest city… Continue reading
