At a meeting on Monday, the Juneau Assembly approved an ordinance allowing Juneau Animal Rescue to lease land on Crazy Horse Drive for a new animal shelter. The nonprofit says the move is critical to ...

On October 7, frustrated voters passed two ballot propositions aimed at making Juneau more affordable and decisively defeated ...

Lacking the usual amount of data to guide them, federal fishery managers relied on last year’s reports to set the coming year ...

Juneau School District schools are giving students the day off on Monday, Dec. 15 due to weather conditions. An email from the district states that heavy snow is expected to continue through the day ...

Capitol City Fire/Rescue responded to its first ice-fall rescue of the season on Tuesday at Mendenhall Lake. Fire Chief ...

Schwartz-Yeager lives in Wrangell, but paints up and down the coast, from Southeast Alaska to Prince William Sound to Homer.

Van Abbott is a long time resident of Alaska and regular opinion writer for the Juneau Empire. He has held management ...

Eaglecrest Ski Area will hold a “winter preview” for its opening weekend starting Saturday, Dec. 13.

A Juneau man has been charged with felony sexual assault for allegedly raping another patron at Juneau’s emergency cold-weather warming shelter.

In a Friday hearing, members of the Alaska Senate spoke critically about a proposed new ferry terminal in Juneau, questioning why the project would be worth its multimillion-dollar cost.

The cold snap follows Juneau’s first significant city-level snowfall of the season. NWS measured 9.6 inches of snow on Saturday, Dec. 6, surpassing the previous Dec. 6 record of 7.2 inches set in 1975 ...

The mining industry remains one of the strongest economic contributors, offering some of the highest paying jobs in the city. Kensington and Greens Creek mines — two of the six major producing mines ...