Winning floats• 1st place, Best Commercial, Alaska Dames• 2nd place, Best Commercial, Crowley Taku Oil Sales• 1st place, Most Alaskan, Fred Meyer• 1st place, Most… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks museum dedicated to Alaska’s state sport is struggling to attract visitors and might close if business doesn’t pick up.The Bouchard’s International… Continue reading
Three public areas near the Kenai Municipal airport have received new signage dealing with a new problem: remote-controlled hobby drones that city and airport officials… 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
Women, Infants and Children walk-in clinic, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., SEARHC Juneau WIC Clinic, 3245 Hospital Drive, first floor. Free nutrition services for income-eligible women who… Continue reading
The Alaska Judicial Council recommends that Alaskans vote “yes” to retain 33 judges eligible to appear on the ballot in 2016.The Council reviews judges’ performances,… Continue reading
City Hall and most City and Borough of Juneau offices will be closed Monday and regular office hours will resume on Tuesday.Douglas road closures include… Continue reading
MCGRATH — An Alaska State Trooper in a floatplane rescued a 29-year-old New York City man who set out to build a cabin and live… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — The Alaska Volcano Observatory is again raising the threat level for a remote volcano near the Aleutian Islands.The observatory says seismicity at Pavlof… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — One month after the tires on 87 private airplanes were slashed at a small airport in Alaska’s largest city, police publicly released grainy… Continue reading
WASHINGTON, DC — Alaska Native tribes can now petition the federal government to take their land into “trust,” an action previously barred in Alaska that… Continue reading
Brad Fluetsch has been growing peonies at his home in North Douglas since 1992 and they do really well. So well, people have asked to… Continue reading
Independence DayJuneau Parade, 11 a.m., begins at Cycle Alaska/Department of Labor Building at W. Eighth St. (next to Douglas Bridge). The parade will start up… Continue reading
HOUSTON — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by 10 this week to 431.A year ago, 862… Continue reading
BETHEL — Bethel Region High School will receive $7 million in state funding for a new kitchen and cafeteria.KYUK-AM reported the school currently does not… Continue reading
Burglary• At 6:29 p.m. Thursday, a 56-year-old woman reported several firearms were stolen from her residence in the 3000 block fo Glacierwood Drive.Conditions violation• At… Continue reading
Come tonight, bottle rockets, mortars, roman candles and fireworks of other forms and fashions will light the sky above Savikko Park in Douglas, one of… Continue reading
Critics of British Columbia’s transboundary mining activities were shot down recently by one top U.S. official, so on Monday they appealed to another, asking for… Continue reading
University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen has appointed Dana L. Thomas as interim chancellor of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Thomas will begin on Aug.… Continue reading
Forty-six students from the class of 2015 received a certificate of achievement rather than a diploma, and an as of yet undetermined number in 2016.… Continue reading
