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Police & fire for Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016

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Recovery Coach Training, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Gruening Park Recreation Center. Women, Infants and Children walk-in clinic, 9 a.m.-6…

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Women, Infants and Children walk-in clinic, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., SEARHC Juneau WIC Clinic, 3245 Hospital Drive, first floor.…

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City to help with mobile home down payments

When Margaret O’Neal, chair of the city’s Affordable Housing Commission, first moved to Juneau in the early ‘70s…

A haul rope is returned to the Silver Arrow after a fiber optic cable was brought to shore in Haines for the Alaska Power and Telephone Company on Friday. The cable will bring more bandwidth to the upper Lynn Canal communities of Haines and Skagway.

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‘Road’ connects Juneau and Haines with 28,800 lanes

HAINES — On a cloudy Friday morning, in a tent on a windblown beach near the ferry terminal…

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Voices of recovery in Juneau

A story that so many people will tell about their battle with substance abuse is how at one…

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This Day in Juneau History: Sept. 25, 1986

On Sept. 25, 1986, the search for a Juneau teen who went missing after a party by the…

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Police & fire for Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016

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Open trap shooting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Juneau Gun Club, 5680 Montana Creek Road. The Juneau Gun Club is…

Sitka High School's David Wilcox leads the boys 1A, 2A and 3A race at Saturday's Region V cross country championship meet in Sitka.

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Sitka boys claim small schools Region V crown

Sitka High School’s pack of state champion Wolves took the team title on the boys side for Southeast’s…

Juneau-Douglas High School freshman Sadie Tuckwood breaks the tape as the winner of Saturday's Region V girls 4A cross country championship meet in Sitka.

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Clawing up a legacy

SITKA — Having won every Region V team title since 1990, Juneau-Douglas High School’s cross country boys have…

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Police respond to morning shooting in Auke Bay

A seemingly intentional shooting Saturday morning left a trailer on Glacier Highway with damaged front window, according to…

After a day of bear hunting in Chaik Bay on Admiralty Island, Douglas Adkins of Kentucky was mauled by a brown bear Thursday night. The U.S. Coast Guard transported him to Juneau early Friday morning with non-life threatening injuries.

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Bear hunter gets mauled by brown bear on Admiralty Island

A Kentucky man was mauled by a brown bear Thursday night at the end of a day of…

Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott and special assistant Scott Meriwether open the public hearing Friday morning on the Permanent Fund Voter Registration Initiative. The Juneau hearing took place in the Thomas Stewart Legislative Office Building. The initiative will be a ballot measure on the Nov. 8 general election.

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Nothing but support for ballot measure to make voter registration easier in Alaska

Two people testified Friday morning in support of a citizen’s ballot initiative that ties voter registration to the…

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Iconic rock spire behind Mendenhall Glacier falls

At 30-by-30 feet and 150 feet tall, the Rabbit Ears, a pair of rock spires behind the Mendenhall…

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Southeast Alaska SHRM Chapter Meeting with JEDC, 7:30 a.m., Prospector Hotel. New student orientation, 9-10 a.m., The Learning…

The front page of the Juneau Empire on Sept. 23, 1986

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This Day in Juneau History: Sept. 23, 1986

On Sept. 23, 1986, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II, announced his plan…

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Engineers: Labor Day boat crash caused $80K in damages

After assessing damage that an allegedly boozy boater caused when he crashed into a dock in Aurora Harbor…

The front page of the Empire on Sept. 24, 1986

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This Day in Juneau History: Sept. 24, 1986

On Sept. 24, 1986, 75 people joined the search for a missing teenage boy. The 17-year-old was last…

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Police & Fire for Friday, Sept. 23, 2016

This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement agencies. This report includes arrest and…