The Juneau School District and the Juneau Education Association are more than two months into contract negotiations as the ...

Delegates from several Asian nations are set to come to Alaska soon to study the project, but state legislators have ...

New calls to raise Alaska’s mining taxes and royalties come as state officials face difficult fiscal decisions.

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

Despite obvious activity on land owned by Royal Caribbean Group partner Goldbelt Inc., Mayor Beth Weldon said no one at the ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has already signaled his opposition to the new education measure unless his policy priorities are added.

Cullen McCormick, Chazz Gist, and Kalijah LeCornu talk about their run in Juneau and the ups and downs of trying to tour in Southeast Alaska.

Even with the Senate’s cuts, preliminary figures show that the operating budget — when combined with other budget bills — ...

The Alaska Senate is eyeing over $100 million in budget cuts, but a more than $85 million shortfall remains in the Senate's draft spending plan. The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday unveiled its ...

Surrounded by the sparkling waters and soaring mountains of the Alaskan Panhandle is Juneau, a beautiful state capital that ...

Its electoral system, bolstered by strong economic and social institutions, enables lawmakers to vote their consciences in ...

The Alaska Legislature on Tuesday failed to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a $1,000 increase to the Base Student Allocation, the state’s per-student funding formula.