• An initiative exempting “essential food” and residential utilities from local sales taxes, which currently total 5% (a 4% ...

There is a hoop in a driveway of a house in Yakutat that local youth from not just the block, but across the town use at all ...

Klawock’s Jean Jackson made history on March 29 at the 2025 Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament, becoming the ...

The Social Security Administration said on Tuesday that people seeking retirement or survivor benefits could continue to file ...

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By using Social Security data to freeze out immigrants, the administration is conscripting a broadly popular agency — one that exists to send benefits primarily to retired Americans and people with ...

The annual one-hour listening session — which spanned about 150 minutes Monday — is mandated in the agreement the City and Borough of Sitka signed when it sold the community-owned Sitka Community ...

Tobin said sending a simple $1,000 BSA bill to the floor isn’t a negotiating tactic with Dunleavy — where a bill with his education policies might get approved if he approves a funding increase — and ...

Sen. Dan Sullivan co-sponsored the STOP Act that he said “focuses on stopping the killer drug fentanyl from coming from places like China and Mexico and killing our people.” Even though the bill ...

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. The stories include names, AP ...

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said the tariff level would be brought down to a universal 10 percent — a ...

Trump-appointed U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the closure of five of ...