Sens. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, and Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, said that lawmakers next year are likely to face a significant ...

Amid a severe state budget deficit, the Alaska Senate Finance Committee is proposing the lowest Permanent Fund dividend in ...

Three decades of capital city coverage. Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of ...

An 11% pay increase and significant boost in health care coverage over three years is part of a tentative agreement announced Friday by a union representing more than 8,000 Alaska state government ...

Juneau’s 5% sales tax on groceries is among the highest in the nation. Almost every other state either doesn’t tax groceries ...

Despite the flurry of activity and development proposals in the 1960s, the first road to the glacier was not constructed for scenic access. It was for mining by Benjamin Bullard who staked placer gold ...

Juneau Assembly members moved toward a $10 million school projects bond and a 5% hike in utility rates for each of the next ...

May Day, or International Workers’ Day, honors the organized labor movement. Alaskans joined hundreds of thousands in the U.S ...

An election to form Alaska’s first new borough since 2013 is scheduled July 15 for residents of Hoonah and the surrounding ...

The Crimson Bears backed up their pitcher as juniors Marcus and Madden Mendoza and sophomore Noah Lewis had two RBI each and Casperson, Lewis, Madden Mendoza, junior Nate Fick, junior Chris Andersen ...

With nearly five inches of rain falling on Thursday in Ketchikan all softball games were postponed to Friday and a doubleheader between the visiting Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson ...

Trailing 1-0 midway through the second half, JDHS senior Kai Ciambor was awarded a free kick from distance and ripped a ball into the top of the West box where Maier was floating among defenders in ...