The Empty Oil Band performs Sunday during the 50th Alaska Folk Festival at Centennial Hall. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire) But the week was almost too successful for its own good when a ...

2022 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau, Alaska. Alaskans could soon have access to a new type of charitable gambling. In a 35-2 vote on Friday, the Alaska House of Representatives voted to ...

The 2025 Alaska cruise season is officially underway. On Monday, Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Bliss sailed into Juneau, kicking off another summer of visitors exploring No. 49. The next ship, ...

Delayed repairs have led to a health and safety crisis in many Alaska schools. Rural School districts are trying to keep school buildings maintained so kids have a healthy atmosphere for learning ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska Native man who maintained his innocence in the 1997 killing of a white teenager has agreed to an $11.5 million settlement with the city of Fairbanks after ...

Juneau, Alaska, has implemented cruise ship and passenger caps to curb its cruise boom. Three local businesses told BI they support these limits despite relying on cruisers for revenue.

Hundreds of miles of hiking trails may surround Juneau, Alaska, but living there year-round is no walk in the park. In the winter, the state's capital city sees less than seven hours of sunlight ...

Russian warplanes were detected flying off the coast of Alaska and tracked by the U.S. military, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Tuesday. The Russian aircraft never entered ...

Juneau, Alaska — A man and two children were found with non-life-threatening injuries Monday near the wreckage of a small plane on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula that had been reported overdue the ...

Dozens of mini-earthquakes have rattled Alaska's Mount Spurr over the past week, sparking fears among scientists that the towering 11,000-foot volcano may be on the verge of a major eruption.

Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy flew to Taiwan last month to pitch business and government leaders on Alaska’s state-sponsored liquefied natural gas export project. The same day Dunleavy and other ...