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Pioneer Potluck: About picking berries, canning fish and making gooseberry and rhubarb pies

Pioneer Potluck: About picking berries, canning fish and making gooseberry and rhubarb pies

High bush cranberry catsup, sour cream gooseberry pie, rhubard custard pie

Pioneer Potluck: About picking berries, canning fish and making gooseberry and rhubarb pies
Opinion: The national measles outbreak has spread to Alaska — Please get vaccinated!

Opinion: The national measles outbreak has spread to Alaska — Please get vaccinated!

One of the most contagious diseases in the world, measles can lead to severe complications.

Opinion: The national measles outbreak has spread to Alaska — Please get vaccinated!
Kelly Tshibaka, commissioner Department of Administration (courtesy photo)

Opinion: DMV uses technology innovatively

Technological advancements now allow the DMV to verify if a motor vehicle has insurance coverage.

Kelly Tshibaka, commissioner Department of Administration (courtesy photo)
University of Alaska Southeast administrators and staff watch University President Jim Johnsen during an online meeting being held at UA campuses around the state on Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget cuts on Monday, July 15, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)                                University of Alaska Southeast administrators and staff watch University President Jim Johnsen during an online meeting being held at UA campuses around the state on Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget cuts on Monday, July 15, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Financial crisis opens University of Alaska to layoffs

ANCHORAGE — The University of Alaska Board of Regents decided Monday they could no longer wait to see if the Alaska Legislature will bail them… Continue reading

University of Alaska Southeast administrators and staff watch University President Jim Johnsen during an online meeting being held at UA campuses around the state on Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget cuts on Monday, July 15, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)                                University of Alaska Southeast administrators and staff watch University President Jim Johnsen during an online meeting being held at UA campuses around the state on Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget cuts on Monday, July 15, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Letter to the Editor: Restore funding for legal services to low-income Alaskans

Letter to the Editor: Restore funding for legal services to low-income Alaskans

The attorneys of ALSC help achieve justice and create a better Alaska.

Letter to the Editor: Restore funding for legal services to low-income Alaskans
<strong>• By LARRY PERSILY</strong>

Alaska Voices: Let’s stop with the meaningless political labels

It’s time we thought about our communities more than our politics.

<strong>• By LARRY PERSILY</strong>
Oilers end tough road trip by snapping 7-game skid in dramatic fashion

Oilers end tough road trip by snapping 7-game skid in dramatic fashion

The Peninsula Oilers snapped a seven-game losing streak with a crucial 6-2 win over the host Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks in 12 innings Saturday. The game… Continue reading

Oilers end tough road trip by snapping 7-game skid in dramatic fashion
Clinton Campion
Clinton Campion
Tammy Green
Tammy Green
Refuge notebook: The many faces of the Swan Lake Fire

Refuge notebook: The many faces of the Swan Lake Fire

The smoke hung low in the valley as we walked down a dozer line to its end where a clearing had been created. Just weeks… Continue reading

Refuge notebook: The many faces of the Swan Lake Fire
In this Tuesday, July 16, 2019, photo released by the Alaska Governor’s office, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, center rear, speaks in front of a Riv-Gen Power System turbine on the bank of the Kvichak River in Igiugig, Alaska. A tiny Alaska Native village is adopting an emerging technology to transform the power of a local river into a renewable energy source. (Austin McDaniel/Alaska Governor’s Office via AP)

Alaska village will install new river power generator

‘We would like clean renewable energy over diesel any day.’

In this Tuesday, July 16, 2019, photo released by the Alaska Governor’s office, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, center rear, speaks in front of a Riv-Gen Power System turbine on the bank of the Kvichak River in Igiugig, Alaska. A tiny Alaska Native village is adopting an emerging technology to transform the power of a local river into a renewable energy source. (Austin McDaniel/Alaska Governor’s Office via AP)
Minister’s Message: Staying true to who we are

Minister’s Message: Staying true to who we are

I had one of those milestone birthdays in the recent past. One of those birthdays that makes you scratch your head and wonder how I… Continue reading

Minister’s Message: Staying true to who we are
Joshua Decker, center, director of the ACLU of Alaska, speaks at a press conference with Bonnie Jack, left, and John Kauffman on Wednesday, in Anchorage. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)

ACLU of Alaska sues Gov. Dunleavy over court budget veto

Dunleavy’s reduction to court system budget was tied to an Alaska Supreme Court decision on abortion.

Joshua Decker, center, director of the ACLU of Alaska, speaks at a press conference with Bonnie Jack, left, and John Kauffman on Wednesday, in Anchorage. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)
Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to reporters about his budget vetoes at the state Capitol in Juneau, June 28. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to reporters about his budget vetoes at the state Capitol in Juneau, June 28. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
Voices of the Peninsula: Use fat PFDs to pay it forward for arts, other cut programs

Voices of the Peninsula: Use fat PFDs to pay it forward for arts, other cut programs

In Alaska, arts and culture are a $1.3 billion dollar industry.

Voices of the Peninsula: Use fat PFDs to pay it forward for arts, other cut programs
People draped in black hold signs on July 9, 2019, by Sean Derry’s public art sculpture in Homer, Alaska, as part of a statewide art intervention to protest Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a $2.8 million state appropriation to the Alaska State Council on the Arts. They also supported a general override of Dunleavy’s vetoes that will affect funding for the University of Alaska, public radio and other programs. Derry’s sculpture was commissioned as a 1% for art project associated with the remodeling of Pioneer Hall at the Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College, University of Alaska. The protest was not sanctioned by the college. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

Alaska State Arts Council shuts down after funding loss

‘This is going to leave a huge vacuum.’

People draped in black hold signs on July 9, 2019, by Sean Derry’s public art sculpture in Homer, Alaska, as part of a statewide art intervention to protest Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a $2.8 million state appropriation to the Alaska State Council on the Arts. They also supported a general override of Dunleavy’s vetoes that will affect funding for the University of Alaska, public radio and other programs. Derry’s sculpture was commissioned as a 1% for art project associated with the remodeling of Pioneer Hall at the Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College, University of Alaska. The protest was not sanctioned by the college. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
A brush fire burns in South Anchorage, Alaska, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Opinion: How we fight wildfires needs to change

The time for action is now.

A brush fire burns in South Anchorage, Alaska, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Letter to the Editor: Students, not taxpayers, should be paying for college

There has been a lot of press regarding the $130 million cut to the University of Alaska. I, of course, disagree with a lot of… Continue reading

Opinion: Restore reasonable funding for the university of Alaska

Opinion: Restore reasonable funding for the university of Alaska

Precipitously cutting these scholarships is a significant violation of trust.

Opinion: Restore reasonable funding for the university of Alaska
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Letter to the Editor: A bad deal for Alaska

The question is, do you care about Alaska’s fisheries resources?

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