The 72-foot Cassiopeia is shown moored in Casey Moran Harbor in Ketchikan, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 19, 2016. The 72-foot, custom-built Davidson sailboat has been an eye-catcher in Casey Moran Harbor this summer. (Nick Bowman/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)

Cassiopeia: Classic lines grace Ketchikan harbor

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

The 72-foot Cassiopeia is shown moored in Casey Moran Harbor in Ketchikan, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 19, 2016. The 72-foot, custom-built Davidson sailboat has been an eye-catcher in Casey Moran Harbor this summer. (Nick Bowman/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)

Court: Refinery owners must share cleanup costs

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 bans pets in back of pickups

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

Twin Lakes re-opens for swimmers

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

Report recommends ways for UA to cut costs in athletics

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 police use gas to force suspect out of home

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

Canadian rescued near ‘Into the Wild’ bus

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

Judge denies Nev. county’s claim to national forest road

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

Chemistry teacher Topaz Shryock helps one of over thirty students at Thunder Mountain High School on Tuesday. The school added another chemistry class this week to get the class sizes down to the low-twenties.

Higher than expected school enrollment – blessing or curse?

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

Chemistry teacher Topaz Shryock helps one of over thirty students at Thunder Mountain High School on Tuesday. The school added another chemistry class this week to get the class sizes down to the low-twenties.

Grim news for gas pipeline

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

A selection of marijuana products purchased in Washington state is seen Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016 in Juneau.

50 shades of weed: Juneau’s cannabis growers are planning variety on store shelves

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

A selection of marijuana products purchased in Washington state is seen Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016 in Juneau.

Full classrooms, half-empty schools

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

Governor announces board appointments from Juneau

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

Hunters will be allowed to kill 11 wolves this year on POW

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will permit 11 wolves to be hunted this fall and winter on Prince of Wales Island and surrounding… Continue reading

Juneau man gets three years in sex abuse case

A Juneau judge has sentenced a 23-year-old man to three years in prison for attempting to sexually abuse a minor two years ago.Juneau Superior Court… Continue reading

This Day in Juneau History: Aug. 28, 1986

On Aug. 28, 1986, Gov. Bill Sheffield and his administration were trying to adjust to the hard loss he took in the Democratic primary for… Continue reading

Around Town

Wild Kitchen Walk, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Eagle River United Methodist Camp. Learn about wild edible plants and berries, go on foraging hikes, cook hands-on, and… Continue reading

Girl dies of injuries suffered in village ATV accident

ANCHORAGE — An Anchorage child has died of injuries suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident on Aug. 11.Alaska State Troopers say that 10-year-old Aaliyahellie Shangin-Andrews… Continue reading

Troopers say powerful painkiller found in Alaska heroin

ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers say lab tests showed the presence of the powerful painkiller fentanyl in heroin seized from a village where four people… Continue reading

Fire calls for Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016

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