Plans for a Juneau skatepark are progressing, the Fairbanks transit center is open, Ketchikan seeks input on its ...

For the first time in Alaska history, the state’s supreme court is majority female. It’s also being led, for just the second ...

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 ...

Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators have introduced legislation seeking to designate North America’s tallest peak as Denali — weeks after President Donald Trump issued an ...

Haines is not the only community interested in mapping the risk. Similar projects have been completed or are underway in more ...

The Alaska Legislature has passed a resolution urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North ...

The national flood insurance program costs Alaskans too much and provides too little in benefits, the bill's sponsor says.

A Bering Air flight with nine passengers and its pilot went missing in Alaska after the plane suffered "some kind of event" ...

An agreement with Palmer is scheduled to be considered by the hiring committee at midday next Thursday and, if approved, a ...

Authorities say a small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome has been ...

The ice extent in January was down 498,000 square miles compared to the 1981 to 2010 average. That means the Arctic is now missing an area of ice six times the size of Wales.

The Marine Exchange of Alaska, a nongovernmental agency based out of Juneau, has been acting as a 24/7 middle man ...