On Monday, the Alaska House of Representatives is scheduled to begin debating a bill that would provide a big boost to K-12 public school funding . When legislators begin talking, they’ll likely ...

A January hearing in Juneau was a snapshot of how pretrial delays have affected Alaska courts: victims, witnesses and ...

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

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has signed legislation approving a bond package for the Alaska Railroad to build a new cruise ship dock in ...

The plan would allow skilled trail workers to continue their work this summer, after half of the U.S. Forest Service trail ...

According to modeling by the Legislative Finance Division, the Permanent Fund has an almost 50% chance in the next decade of ...

Listen: Juneau’s Peterson Lake trail is known for being a bit wet. It winds through muskeg to a lake, where a U.S. Forest ...

H took nine youths from around the state to Juneau to learn about the process of government. Three youths from Fairbanks, ...

An Alaska House panel on Wednesday advanced an education measure with a reduced school funding boost and education reforms to ...

Starting March 17, burn permits are required in parts of Alaska. FEMA visits Juneau for flood damage, the Alaska Highway ...

Alaska political leaders on Wednesday broadly welcomed President Donald Trump’s remarks to Congress talking up the prospects ...

Damage to a subsea cable led to widespread cellphone and internet outages in Southeast Alaska, and caused state government websites to go offline for much of Friday into Saturday before services began ...