Isabel Sam’s story isn’t uncommon. Like hers, Alaska Native families often carry the burden of unanswered questions when ...

Anthony Michael Migliaccio was arrested two months after Faith Rogers was found dead on a popular Juneau hiking trail in ...

As city clerk, Beth McEwen has overseen Juneau’s local elections, the workings of the Juneau Assembly and occasionally even ...

A rare severe thunderstorm warning was issued for Juneau, Alaska Monday, as a video of a possible tornado emerged.

Alaska’s capital city averages a single thunderstorm every two years or so. Juneau is home to about 32,000 people and is ...

Juneau’s Auke Bay Post 25 got their first taste of the 2025 Alaska Legion Baseball road competition over the weekend, playing ...

Juneau Hydropower could expand the capital’s renewable energy capacity by nearly 20%, if it can build a proposed ...

And yet the state is poised to spend at least half a billion dollars building a second bridge across one of Alaska’s most ...

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

A dramatic weather event unfolded in Juneau, Alaska, on Monday, as a severe thunderstorm tore through the area spinning up a tornadolike vortex. A gustnado is another type of tornado that forms ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R., S.D.) could have chosen to shrink the bill’s debt-ceiling increase to sway Rand Paul ...

A Celebrity Cruises ship broke loose from its moorings in Juneau, Alaska, due to strong winds. The ship, Celebrity Edge, ...