Plans for a Juneau skatepark are progressing, the Fairbanks transit center is open, Ketchikan seeks input on its ...

Alaska’s new Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Carney delivered her first State of the Judiciary Address, acknowledging court ...

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 ...

Since the board addressed the district’s multimillion-dollar budget deficit last year, it's expected to move through the budget process more quickly this year.

Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators have introduced legislation seeking to designate North America’s tallest peak as Denali — ...

Haines is not the only community interested in mapping the risk. Similar projects have been completed or are underway in more ...

For the first time in Alaska history, the state’s supreme court is majority female. It’s also being led, for just the second ...

The Alaska Legislature has passed a resolution urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North ...

The national flood insurance program costs Alaskans too much and provides too little in benefits, the bill's sponsor says.

The remains of all 10 people killed when their small plane crashed into ice on the Bering Sea have been recovered, ...