06/01/11 Showers are expected to bring in new month, with storm likely headed for Bay Area on Friday
05/30/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On July 30, 1942, the USS Grunion, a 312-foot-long submarine prowling off the Aleutian Islands, contacted Navy officials in Dutch Harbor. It had sunk two Japanese sub chasers an...
05/26/11 In Alaska's Southeast Island School District there's no bullying and an average teacher to student ratio is 1:3. The Weekly Standard's Willy Stern shares the story of the one-room school house in remote Alaska.
05/25/11 Juneau Empire Editor's note: Information from the Empire's archives contributed to this report. Long-time Juneau and Alaska Tlingit spiritual leader, elder statesman, and native icon Walter Soboleff died early Sunday morning in his home, surrounded by family.
05/24/11 JUNEAU (AP) -- Long time Juneau and Alaska Tlingit spiritual leader, elder statesman, and native icon Walter Soboleff died early Sunday morning in his home, surrounded by family.
05/24/11 JUNEAU, Alaska - Long time Juneau and Alaska Tlingit spiritual leader, elder statesman, and native icon Walter Soboleff died early Sunday morning in his home, surrounded by family. According to ...
05/23/11 Several years ago, when our family-owned company, Naknek Family Fisheries, began asking fishermen to bleed their fish as soon as they were caught, many fishermen didn't know what this meant.
05/11/11 Jessica Kolman has gone to the Bay to Breakers race for the past 16 years because she loves the quirky, only-in-San Francisco feel of the race, which celebrates its 100th anniversary Sunday. But Kolman, 41, of Pinole...
04/08/11 A taxidermy mount of Michigan's only known wild wolverine is now on display at the visitor center at Bay City State Recreation Area.
04/08/11 A 5-month-old King Cove girl with respiratory difficulties was medevaced to Anchorage tonight by Coast Guard personnel from Kodiak.
04/08/11 A storm whipped by 100-mile-an-hour winds has caused extensive damage at False Pass, near the western tip of the Alaska Peninsula on Unimak Island, Aleutians East Borough officials said late Thursday.
04/08/11 If I were asked to pick a favorite month for being in Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula, it wouldn't be April. It's so seldom that you hear anyone praising the pleasures of slush, breakup and cabin fever.
04/07/11 It may be chilly and drizzly, but the penguin families are out for a day at the beach -- literally. It's New Year's Eve in 2009. We're in Patagonia, Chile, at the bottom of the hemisphere.
04/07/11 Chef Peter Davis of Henrietta's Table in Cambridge, Mass., holds a bowl of his Yellow Eye Beans with Gilfeather Turnips after a panel on cooking with heirloom beans at the second annual Chefs Collaborative National Summit held last week at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston.
04/03/11 Among the oversized bears and birds of Kamchatka, Louise Southerden hears stories of war and adventure.
04/01/11 Colder temperatures in the last week have allowed the snow from last week's snowstorm to linger on in northern and central Wisconsin and is delaying ice-out on lakes across much of the state. Snowmobilers were still out last weekend in the Sawyer County area and people were still cross-country skiing there as well as in Door County. Snow depths still ranged from 4 inches to nearly a foot in some ...
03/30/11 Legislation to authorize the conveyance of the decommissioned Coast Guard cutter Storis for use as a privately-funded museum in Juneau has been introduced in the House and Senate by Alaska's congressional delegation.
03/29/11 JERUSALEM #8212; Israel is considering annexing major West Bank settlement blocs if the Palestinians unilaterally seek world recognition of a state, an Israeli official said today #8212; a move that would deal a grave blow to any prospects for peacemaking with the Palestinians.
03/27/11 In February Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. president Tom Barrett told the Alaska House Resources Committee that the trans-Alaska oil pipeline system, known as TAPS, had come close to the brink of a major outage when forced into a winter shutdown after an oil leak in January at Pump Station 1 at the northern terminus of the line.
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