Alaska schools are hiring teachers from the Philippines amid a massive national shortage. It’s the latest wave of immigrants from Southeast Asia to come to the state. This is part one of a five part ...

The Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears baseball team opened the Region V Championships at Ketchikan with ...

JDHS sophomore Erick Thompson stopped a key shot in the box. The defense of seniors Ryan Thibodeau, Rumsey, Chester, Maier, ...

The question of whether ballot measures to lower the cap on property taxes, eliminate sales taxes on food and utilities, and reestablish a preference for in-person local elections now rests on a count ...

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire ...

Klas Stolpe, a sports reporter since the mid-1990s, was honored last Saturday as this year’s Region V winner of the ASAA Gold Lifetime Pass, presented by the Alaska School Activities Association for ...

Only 54% of kindergarteners in the state had received all of their recommended vaccinations in 2024, according to a bulletin issued by the department’s epidemiology section. That compares to a ...

We survived the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we survived the Terrible Toilet Paper Troubles. Nothing like a shortage of ...

Annie Bartholomew has performed on more than a few stages in venues near and far, but when she got together with some fellow Juneau musicians on Thursday night to rehearse a couple of her familiar ...

By a more than 2-to-1 margin, voters in Wednesday’s special election turned down a ballot proposition to limit cruise ship visitation in Sitka.

Indigenous leaders across the Gulf say it’s imperative that Alaska legislators pass reforms to the state law that they blame for the mess: a landmark 1973 statute that effectively prevents many ...

The TACO trade isn’t a new restaurant. It stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” The acronym is Wall Street’s response to his on-again-off-again tariffs.