If approved by the voters, the ordinance would set an annual cap of 300,000 cruise passengers, a daily cap of 4,500 ...

An ordinance that would limit cruise tourism in Sitka, Alaska, received enough support to be put to a vote in a special ...

The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development broadly recommends that 3% of building values be allotted annually ...

Alaska lawmakers are showing renewed interest in addressing a backlog in school building maintenance in the wake of a report detailing the costly ramifications of years of underfunding school ...

A ship repairing damaged subsea communications cables near Sitka and Angoon made a port stop in Juneau on Thursday while in ...

KYUK and ProPublica launched a project highlighting the public health and safety crisis inside Alaska’s rural public schools this month, kicking off a discussion among lawmakers on the powerful Senate ...

Juneau residents welcomed back “Molly of Denali” writer X̱'unei Lance Twitchell Sunday with song and dance after he won an ...

Captain Dan Veerhusen and Jan, his wife, run the Taurus, one of the few remaining boats that still fish herring in the Bering ...

This is the first time I’ve read about Maine’s Franco American community. Why was it appealing for you and how does it relate ...

Lawmakers have broadly expressed concerns that the school funding boost of more than $250 million per year would be ...

Tom Brandt has been selected to be the next school superintendent in Union Gap. Brandt is an executive director in the Dallas Independent School District in Dallas, Texas, according to a news release ...

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 ...