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Browsers crowd into Annie Kaill’s gallery and gift shop during the 2024 Gallery Walk. (Juneau Empire file photo)

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Gallery Walk guide for Friday, Dec. 5

The Juneau Arts & Humanities Council and the Downtown Business Association announced community events taking place during Gallery…

Local nonprofit St. Vincent de Paul delivered over 500 meal baskets on Saturday as part of its Thanksgiving Basket Drive. (Photo courtesy Jennifer Skinner)

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St. Vincent de Paul delivers 521 Thanksgiving baskets amid rising need

The annual holiday drive saw a 30% increase in demand.

“Tide Pools” is part of the “Landscapes of Southeast Alaska” exhibit by Johanna Griggs, presented by Juneau Arts & Humanities Council. The exhibit will open at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center on Friday, Nov. 7 2025. (courtesy Juneau Arts and Humanities Council)

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November’s First Friday: Here’s what to see

Juneau Arts & Humanities Council announces community events at attend Nov. 7.

Left to right: Juneau Mayor Beth Weldon stands as Municipal Attorney Emily Wright swears in Assembly member Ella Adkison, Greg Smith and Nano Brooks at the Assembly meeting on Monday, Oct. 27. (Mari Kanagy/Juneau Empire)

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Assembly members sworn in facing protesters and tighter city budget

Attendees object Telephone Hill demolition; Assembly approves pay raises and project funding.

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The digital billboard on Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé says “Substitutes Wanted.”

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Superintendent addresses school district successes, concerns

Graduation numbers are climbing, and staffing gaps are persisting.

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Mari Kanagy is a new reporter at the Juneau Empire.

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A new recruit for the ‘Empire’

Mari Kanagy recently joined Juneau Empire staff as a reporter.

The University of Alaska Southeast, seen here on Monday, May 25, 2020. (Peter Segall | Juneau Empire)

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UAS fall lecture series returns

The next installment is “Researching the Mendenhall Outburst Flood: 2025 and Beyond”

An attendee holds up a sign opposing the demolition of homes on Telephone Hill at the Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, City and Borough of Juneau Assembly meeting. (Screenshot)

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Opposition to Telephone Hill demolition heard at Monday CBJ Assembly meeting

Monday’s meeting was the last regular Assembly session before the deadline to evict residents

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Johnson, Jr. convicted of attempted sexual assault

The Juneau jury reached their decision on Friday after a three-day trial

The Edward Webster House (top center in grey), named for a former owner who located his Juneau and Douglas Telephone Co. there for decades beginning in 1915, is the oldest house still in use in Juneau. (Photo courtesy of the City and Borough of Juneau)

Opinion

My Turn: Telephone Hill homes stand as historic symbols of freedom and fresh starts

The history of Juneau’s beginnings is under attack

Candidates for the school board and Juneau Assembly participate in a candidate forum hosted by the Juneau League of Women Voters and KTOO on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (screenshot)

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School board, Assembly candidates discuss issues at League of Women forum

Election day is Oct. 7

The existing 70-year-old Juneau City Hall. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire File)

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Juneau Assembly OKs $10M purchase of new city hall office space

Purchasing two floors of the Michael J. Burns Building will cost $10.2 million, with an estimated $7.7 million…

Land and marine hazards released by the National Weather Service were updated Monday, Sept. 22. (National Weather Service screenshot)

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High winds in Juneau today, flood warning expected through Tuesday

Two landslides along Auke Lake Trail prompted the trail’s closure on Saturday

Juneau’s cruise ship dock is seen July 11, 2025. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Juneau Empire file)

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Juneau chamber opposes Proposition 3, takes no stance on Propositions 1 and 2

Proposition 3 would institute a 7.5% sales tax rate from April through September

Electrify Juneau! A Clean Energy Fair will be held inside the Juneau Arts and Culture Center from 2-5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21. Admission is free.

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Upcoming fair aims to celebrate clean energy and ‘Electrify Juneau!’

The event on Sunday coincides with the national Sun Day initiative

The Juneau League of Women Voters and KTOO are hosting a candidate forum on Friday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m.

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Watch Now: 2025 League of Women Voters candidate forum

The forum will be held Friday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m.

The harbor floats in front of Hansen Boat Shop were covered by almost a foot of snow in this 1997 photo. (Wrangell Sentinel file photo)

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Boat shop ends 97-year career on Wrangell waterfront

The business started as Hansen Boat Shop in 1928 and later became Wrangell Shipyard and then Wrangell Boatshop

The Mount Roberts Tramway car nears the top of its run above Juneau, Alaska. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

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Cruise ship passenger dies after fall from Mount Roberts trail

The man is among a handful of people to die this summer while exploring Juneau’s outdoors

The deadly landslide that crashed through the outskirts of Wrangell on the night of Nov. 20, 2023, is seen from the air on the following day. The landslide killed six people and blocked a major road, the Zimovia Highway. (Photo provided by Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities)

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From rain-drenched mountains to Arctic permafrost, Alaska landslides pose hazards

Scientists with government agencies and academia depend on each other and the public to help keep track of…

Trees standing in water on the flooded shore of Mendenhall Lake are pictured from the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor’s Center on Sept. 15, 2025, in Juneau, Alaska. (Chloe Anderson for the Juneau Empire)

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Updated: Flood warning canceled as Suicide Basin release comes to an end

Mendenhall Lake observed a crest of 9.6 feet as of 7 p.m.