With three days remaining in the Legislature’s statutory 90-day session, House lawmakers focused on smaller bills awaiting attention in the statehouse queue.The House approved one… Continue reading
Heroin use, suicide, gender equality — these topics saturate conversations in Juneau and around the nation, but another unlikely place they’re showing up is an… Continue reading
Procrastinators rejoice: tax day is a bit later this year and if you still can’t make that, there’s still time to file for an extension.The… Continue reading
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Gov. Bill Haslam on Thursday vetoed a bill seeking to make Tennessee the first state to designate the Bible as… Continue reading
DETROIT — Detroit’s hard-pressed school system has found elevated levels of lead and copper in nearly a third of its elementary schools, contamination that one… Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft sued the U.S. government for demanding access to user emails or online files in secret, saying a provision of a 1986… Continue reading
LAGOS, Nigeria — With marches, chants and prayers, Nigerians marked Thursday’s painful second anniversary of the mass abduction of the Chibok girls, still angry and… Continue reading
BEIRUT — Syrian troops exchanged fire with rebels in the contested northern city of Aleppo on Thursday in a renewed bout of fighting that could… Continue reading
HIT, Iraq — After clearing a street of Islamic State fighters, Maj. Salam Hussein began moving house to house. Rifling through drawers in living rooms… Continue reading
TOKYO — At least two people were killed and 45 injured by a magnitude-6.5 earthquake that knocked down houses and buckled roads in southern Japan… Continue reading
TORONTO (AP) — Canada on Thursday introduced a new assisted suicide law that will apply only to citizens and residents, meaning Americans won’t be able… Continue reading
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — In a military buildup certain to inflame tensions with China, the United States said Thursday it will send troops and combat… Continue reading
LONDON (AP) — A woman from Wales cannot name her baby daughter Cyanide, a British court ruled Thursday.The woman, whose name cannot be published for… Continue reading
Members of the Capital City Celebrations Committee provide a check from the Juneau Community Foundation's Capital City Celebration Fund for $2,608 to the volunteer organization… Continue reading
You know all those fees that airlines have added over the last several years? Delta is taking one away.Delta will drop the fee for U.S.… Continue reading
GED orientation class, 9 a.m., The Learning Connection, 210 Ferry Way. GED orientation is designed to improve the success rate of those taking the tests.… 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
ALBANY, N.Y. — The light heavyweight Liam McGeary, an English expatriate who lives in Brooklyn and fights for Bellator, isn’t the only mixed martial arts… Continue reading
The stars did not disappoint.And the most-celebrated closing night in NBA regular-season history not only lived up to expectations, it might have exceeded them with… Continue reading
The pilot of the plane that crashed on southern Admiralty Island last Friday had said he was going to take an alternate route due to… Continue reading
