Alaska House lawmakers debate education funding, election reform, and federal policies like immigration and renaming Denali.

A new nonprofit called The Alaska News Coalition is working to help independent, local news organizations stay in business.

Unemployment in Alaska of 4.7 percent in December ends a year that saw a net gain of 6,000 jobs, driven by construction ...

The focus is it flooded two years in a row on the same day,” Katie Kachel, a lobbyist hired by the City and Borough of Juneau ...

The icebreaker's new home — based on the findings of the Coast Guard’s urgently completed port study — will be Alaska’s ...

Welcome to your weekly seismic update from across the state, brought to you by the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ...

Marta Chausée is an inveterate wanderer and collector of strange items for her found object art projects and stranger people ...

Zak and Audrey Trimble moved to Cook County from Juneau, Alaska at the end 2023 as Zak took over chief operating officer ...

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is proposing legislation that would shorten the window for early voting in statewide elections and ...

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995 and 2005. They include names, AP style ...

President Donald Trump floated “getting rid” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Friday as he visited western North Carolina to survey the damage and recovery efforts from Hurricane ...

It was supposed to be listed in a couple of weeks, and now it's just a pile of rubble,” Drew Dembowski said of the home, which he'd just remodeled for $500,000.