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Will a plea deal come before the murder trial?

The murder trial surrounding a homicide that went unsolved in Juneau for more than a year is scheduled…

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Stormy weather: Check your vessels

City officials are encouraging all boat owners in the Juneau area to check their vessels due to stormy…

In this file photo taken in November 2015, Rep. Wes Keller, R-Wasilla, center, listens to a bill at the Alaska Capitol.

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Deadline comes for bill restricting sex education

A controversial bill passed by the Alaska Legislature will reach its day of decision on Thursday. House Bill…

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Women, Infants and Children walk-in clinic, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., SEARHC Juneau WIC Clinic, 3245 Hospital Drive, first floor.…

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Police calls for Wednesday, July 27, 2016

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

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Assembly holds equal rights ordinance for second work session

The Juneau Assembly will take an equal rights ordinance through another work session before it takes the ordinance…

Juneau marine ecologist Michelle Ridgway, right, and St. George Island students takes measurements of a new species of beaked whale washed ashore on St. George Island August 2014. The whale was first spotted June 2014.

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Juneau scientist helps discover new whale species

When a mysterious beaked whale washed ashore on St. George Island in June 2014, Michelle Ridgway was already…

Jose Antonio Delgado appears in Juneau Superior Court on Tuesday for sentencing for a drive-by shooting downtown.

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Mix-up over crime bill’s effect stalls drive-by shooter’s sentencing

Around the time that legislators were mulling over a bill this year to alter crime statutes in Alaska,…

Vaughn Westcott, left, Fran Ritts, visiting from Long Island, New York, center, and Barbara Pavitt look at a First Folio edition of William Shakespeare's plays that went on display at the State Library, Archives and Museum building on Tuesday. One of only 234 known surviving copies, the nearly 400-year-old book containing 36 plays will be on display until Aug. 24.

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394-year-old Shakespeare volume goes on display in Juneau

Walk in the doors of the room that holds the First Folio, and the dim room resembles nothing…

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Correction

In an article in the Neighbors section last Sunday, the Empire reported that conservator and museum consultant David…

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Police & fire for Tuesday, July 26, 2016

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

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Women, Infants and Children walk-in clinic, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., SEARHC Juneau WIC Clinic, 3245 Hospital Drive, first floor.…

Colette Nelson, owner and executive chef of Ludvig's Bistro in Sitka, cooks a pair of salmon collars in the restaurant kitchen. Nelson is headed to New Orleans next week to compete in the annual Great American Seafood Cook-Off.

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Sitkan hopes to be crowned America’s next best seafood chef

A Sitka chef representing Alaska in a national seafood competition will be transporting the key ingredient — a…

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Accident on Egan sends both drivers to hospital, one vehicle carried five children

First responders took two drivers involved in a Saturday motor vehicle collision on Egan Drive near Fred Meyer…

A still image from an auto lot's surveillance camera show's a man and woman taking a part from a Jet Ski without paying for it, police said. The Juneau Police Department is asking the community to help them locate the pair, the dented dark blue truck they pulled up in or the yellow Jet Ski the pair is believed to own.

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Police search for ‘brazen’ thieves

A man and woman went looking for Jet Ski parts earlier this month, but they opted out of…

The scene of the accident

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Chum run blocks highway

A truck loaded with fish totes rolled over on Egan Drive on Monday afternoon, spilling thousands of pounds…

William "Sonny" Pittman sets up for a trip up a ramp at The Pipeline skate park on Saturday. Pittman, along with other members of an informal skate park council, organized a fundraiser at the park to help move forward with a park improvement plan.

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Getting on board to help Juneau’s skate park

It was an especially rainy day on Saturday, but that didn’t stop dozens of skateboarders from hitting the…

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Police calls for Monday, July 25, 2016

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

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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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This Day in Juneau History: July 25, 1986

On July 25, 1986, one man accused of selling one-half ounce of cocaine in May pleaded no contest…