ANCHORAGE — Police in Alaska’s largest city are looking for a man on a bicycle who is accused of pepper-spraying at least four people.Anchorage police… Continue reading
MINNEAPOLIS — Alaska Airlines says an airliner bound for Seattle had to divert to Minneapolis after an unruly passenger tried to open a rear door… Continue reading
Saturday’s sunny weather broke a 75-year-old high-temperature mark as Juneau and Alaska stayed on track for its warmest year since modern record-keeping began.According to measurements… Continue reading
The Juneau Police Department has already linked a dark green 1990s Ford Explorer to a man suspected of attempted kidnapping five months ago, but they… 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
On Aug. 29, 1986, the case against John Kenneth Peel, who was charged with killing eight people and setting their boat on fire near Craig,… 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
KETCHIKAN — The Cassiopeia is a boat grand enough for a cowboy hat.The 72-foot, custom-built Davidson sailboat has been an eye-catcher in Casey Moran Harbor… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Supreme Court says recent owners of a North Pole oil refinery share costs of cleaning up a contamination that has reached… Continue reading
HOMER — Homer has made amendments to the city’s animal control laws that ban a practice some might think of as Alaskan as log cabins… Continue reading
The city’s Parks and Recreation Department has reopened Twin lakes to swimmers after it closed the lakes late last week.The department asked people and pets… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A new report highlights the uncertainty of the University of Alaska athletics programs, with some facing elimination as the university prepares to make… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A suspect who refused to leave his Anchorage home was forced out by police deploying irritating gas.The man was arrested early Friday and… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — Authorities in Alaska say a Canadian man is the latest person to be rescued near an abandoned bus made famous by the book… Continue reading
RENO, Nev. — A dirt road in a national forest at the center of a decades-old dispute between the Forest Service and a rural Nevada… Continue reading
On the first day of school, Thunder Mountain High School vice principal Rhonda Hickok went around the school to count how many students were there.“I… Continue reading
Tough global competition and low natural gas prices have Alaska’s partners in a multibillion-dollar trans-Alaska pipeline preparing to give up — at least for now.On… Continue reading
You know wine. You’re about to learn cannabis.Earlier this month, Rainforest Farms became Juneau’s first working cannabis farm. Among its 240-some plants are 55 different… Continue reading
Juneau schools are seeing an increase this year of about 200 students compared to the 2015-16 school year, leading to the largest student body population… Continue reading
On Thursday, the office of Gov. Bill Walker announced the appointment of three Juneau residents to state boards and commissions:• Sheri Gray of Juneau was… Continue reading
