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 ...

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 ...

Even if warming stops at 1.2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the average warming over roughly the last decade, glaciers are on track to lose significant volumes of ice within a millennium, ...

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.

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

This time of year, my barbecue grill starts calling to me. So despite the temperatures in the mid-40s with drizzling rain, I decided I was ready for some ribs.

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.

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