Extra costs in budget, loss of federal funds cited for higher increase from current rate of 10.04 mills. Increasing the mill ...

In what the Alaska Legislature’s longest-serving member called the “smoothest ending in 20 years” the Senate adjourned for the year at 1:20 p.m. Tuesday, followed by the House at 1:53 p.m. — nearly a ...

The Alaska Legislature overrode the governor’s education veto on Tuesday morning, 46-14. In the past two years, three attempts to override vetoes on bills increasing education funding have failed.

Former Juneau school board member Steve Whitney, who stepped down in 2019 after one three-year term due to a family illness, ...

The committee of three House and three Senate members approved the $1,000 PFD passed in the Senate’s draft budget, rather ...

There won’t be a vote on limiting the number of cruise passengers in Juneau during this fall’s municipal election since an ...

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

The Alaska Legislature on Wednesday approved almost all of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s appointments to state boards and commissions ...

If you want President Trump to succeed, this kind of skeezy stuff needs to stop,” Ben Shapiro said on his daily podcast on ...

For the second year, the Sustainable Southeast Partnership is releasing “Woven” as a printed and digital collection of ...

The Senate voted 18-2 to pass Senate Bill 26, which would eliminate daylight saving time in Alaska and ask the federal ...

After 22 years in the Alaska Senate, Senate President Gary Stevens is retiring. Stevens’ decision has been discussed in the ...