The Alaska House Finance Committee has approved a bill allowing the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority to fund the Sweetheart Lake Hydroelectric Project southeast… Continue reading
The Alaska House Resources Committee has approved a bill increasing the state’s subsidy for oil and gas drilling.The committee voted 7-2 at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday… Continue reading
JUNEAU — Gov. Bill Walker has proposed giving the state Legislature the power to designate waters where no long-term degradation is allowed, a move that… Continue reading
Juneau has issued its first conditional use permit for a marijuana business.June Hall and Paul Disdier, of the Fireweed Factory LLC, celebrated with friends and… Continue reading
JUNEAU — Two Republican lawmakers want to add legislative oversight to the board of an organization that plays a key role in Alaska’s natural gas… Continue reading
Two months after a heated meeting, trawlers are again accusing Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Sam Cotten of short-changing their industry.Gov. Bill Walker… Continue reading
SOLDOTNA — Alaska State Troopers have arrested a Kasilof man suspected of firing a gun at a driver near Soldotna.Troopers at about 6:30 a.m. Monday… Continue reading
The results from last week’s special mayoral election are now official: Ken Koelsch is still Juneau’s new mayor.The city’s canvass board certified the results Tuesday.… Continue reading
This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement agencies. This report includes arrest and citation information, not conviction information. Anyone listed… Continue reading
HELENA, Mont. — Move over, Judge Judy. Alaska’s mama grizzly is getting a gavel.A production company spokesman says former Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a… Continue reading
Police say no one was badly hurt after two vehicles collided around 10 a.m. Tuesday at the “McNugget” intersection of Egan Drive and Glacier Highway… Continue reading
Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club meeting, 7 a.m., The Prospector Hotel.Open lab computer training, 9-11 a.m, The Learning Connection, 210 Ferry Way. Storytime, 11 a.m., Douglas… Continue reading
KENAI — Alaska’s 54 public school districts will soon be preparing to implement programs next year aimed at preventing dating violence and sex abuse.A task… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Alaska officials say they will keep working with federal authorities who turned down a state request for a more than $375 million loan… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a National Park Service ban on the use of hovercraft by a moose hunter within a… Continue reading
The Federal Subsistence Board has ended a decade-long struggle for the Southeast Alaska village of Saxman by restoring its rural designation.As a formally recognized rural… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators will add their strongest warning labels to the most widely-prescribed painkillers, part of a multi-pronged government campaign to stem an… Continue reading
HAVANA — Capping his remarkable visit to Cuba, President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared an end to the “last remnant of the Cold War in… Continue reading
LOS ANGELES — A California family appealed Tuesday to the state’s highest court in their fight to keep a 6-year-old foster child who was removed… Continue reading
BRUSSELS — Bombs exploded Tuesday at the Brussels airport and in the city’s subway, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens, as a European… Continue reading
