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Captain found dead aboard cruise ship
Crew members found their 47-year-old captain dead aboard the Admiralty Dream cruise ship on Monday, Alaska State Troopers…
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Juneau Fourth of July Parade winners and Douglas parade winners
Winning floats • 1st place, Best Commercial, Alaska Dames • 2nd place, Best Commercial, Crowley Taku Oil Sales…
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Police and Fire for Tueday, July 5, 2016
This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement agencies. This report includes arrest and…
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Around Town
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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Alaska Judicial Council recommends ‘yes’ vote for retaining judges
The Alaska Judicial Council recommends that Alaskans vote “yes” to retain 33 judges eligible to appear on the…
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City closures for Independence Day
City Hall and most City and Borough of Juneau offices will be closed Monday and regular office hours…
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Field of floral dreams
Brad Fluetsch has been growing peonies at his home in North Douglas since 1992 and they do really…
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Fourth of July Schedule of Events
Independence Day Juneau Parade, 11 a.m., begins at Cycle Alaska/Department of Labor Building at W. Eighth St. (next…
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Will this be the last Fourth of July fireworks are allowed in city parks?
Come tonight, bottle rockets, mortars, roman candles and fireworks of other forms and fashions will light the sky…
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Rhetoric ratchets up in transboundary mining battle
Critics of British Columbia’s transboundary mining activities were shot down recently by one top U.S. official, so on…
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UAF interim chancellor named
University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen has appointed Dana L. Thomas as interim chancellor of the University of…
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Certificate of Achievement earners can still receive diploma
Forty-six students from the class of 2015 received a certificate of achievement rather than a diploma, and an…
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Extreme cowboy comes to Juneau
For the past 15 years, famed equestrian Bill Cameron has been making an annual weeklong trip to Juneau…
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This Day in Juneau History: July 3, 1986
On July 3, 1986, the passengers aboard the cruise ship The Daphne stayed in Juneau for the day…
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Around Town
Open trap shooting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Juneau Gun Club, 1 Mile Montana Creek Road. The Juneau Gun Club…
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Police & Fire for Sunday, July 3, 2016
Burglary • At 6:29 p.m. Thursday, a 56-year-old woman reported several firearms were stolen from her residence in…
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Forest Service facilities reopen after record flooding
Despite a glacial outburst flood, or jökulhlaup, that inundated Mendenhall Lake with record-setting flood waters, cleanup is already…
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Guilty: Jury convicts man in domestic violence case on 13 of 14 counts
For the first time in two weeks, the verbose defendant representing himself at trial in a domestic violence…
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Praying America’s problems away
This country is in trouble, and only God and the power of prayer can save it from abortion,…
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Canada’s Mounted Police are coming to Juneau again this Fourth of July
The Fourth of July celebrates a piece of U.S. history — America’s birthday — and other counties are…