The bear guide involved in Thursday’s bear mauling on Admiralty Island was LaVern Beier, a well-known bear researcher with the Alaska Department of Fish and… Continue reading
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
TETLIN — A fire that burned down a home in an interior Alaska village is being blamed on children playing with fireworks.Alaska State Troopers just… Continue reading
Recovery Coach Training, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Gruening Park Recreation Center.Women, Infants and Children walk-in clinic, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., SEARHC Juneau WIC Clinic, 3245 Hospital Drive,… Continue reading
SITKA — Two Alaska hospitals that are grappling with financial challenges will consider consolidation.The Sitka Community Hospital board plans to discuss possible courses of action… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE— Four-time Iditarod champion and cancer survivor Lance Mackey has dropped out of next year's nearly 1,000-mile race for health reasons, organizers said Monday.Mackey said… Continue reading
BETHEL — A Bethel school district has received federal funds to improve the language proficiency of Alaska Native students in both English and their native… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — An Anchorage man in the back seat of a car died early Sunday when the car crashed into a median and guardrail.Anchorage police… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A man suspected of fatally shooting an Alaska State Trooper dog was charged Monday with four felonies, including two counts of assault.The dog… Continue reading
HAINES — On a cloudy Friday morning, in a tent on a windblown beach near the ferry terminal here, Rick Chislett delicately fed a glass… Continue reading
Women, Infants and Children walk-in clinic, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., SEARHC Juneau WIC Clinic, 3245 Hospital Drive, first floor. Free nutrition services for income-eligible women who… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police are investigating a shooting that left a woman critically injured on the city’s east side.Police just before 11 p.m. Thursday took… Continue reading
HOUSTON — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by five this week to 511.A year ago, 838… Continue reading
SITKA — A group is exploring a possible plastic and paper bag fee in Sitka.The Sitka Sentinel reported the first Bags for Change meeting brought… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — The most telling moments in presidential debates often come out of the blue — an offhand remark or unrehearsed gesture that helps to… Continue reading
KENAI — Kenai cats could join dogs on the list of animals that city code requires to be restrained either by a leash, fence or… Continue reading
HONOLULU — Native American communities with their own governments have long had a way to establish a relationship with the United States, but until now… Continue reading
When Margaret O’Neal, chair of the city’s Affordable Housing Commission, first moved to Juneau in the early ‘70s she found that many people who owned… Continue reading
A story that so many people will tell about their battle with substance abuse is how at one point, they couldn’t bear to tell their… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — The U.S. Army has announced plans to move interior Alaska’s 9th Army Band to Anchorage next month.Officials said the Fort Wainwright band will… Continue reading
