I applaud the City and Borough Assembly for a sincere desire to make meaningful improvements to Juneau’s housing crisis. Assembly members are pursuing a lofty goal: high density housing on Telephone ...

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

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 ...

MONDAY, DEC. 8 A holiday dog and cat pet food drive (December 8 -14) to benefit Southeast Alaska Food Bank, local food pantries and regional pet welfare organizations. Look for donation drop off boxes ...

The open house is one of Juneau’s longest-running holiday traditions. Territorial Governor Walter Eli Clark hosted the mansion’s first open house in 1913. The tradition has continued annually, save ...

The earthquake originated close to the Yukon, B.C. and Alaska borders, according to Alison Bird, an earthquake seismologist with Natural Resources Canada. It is being felt at least as far as ...

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

On that cold winter’s night, a wandering stranger was captured by a child’s voice that sang a song about Jesus, born is the humblest of circumstances, yet with the greatest mission of all, to die “for ...

My roommate’s name is Siri. She’s not a new roommate, but we’re still getting used to one another’s quirks. She’s mostly quiet, until I summon her like a genie in a bottle who has the power to grant ...

Jeff Lund is a freelance writer based in Ketchikan. His book, “A Miserable Paradise: Life in Southeast Alaska,” is available in local bookstores and at Amazon.com. “I Went to the Woods” appears once ...