A January hearing in Juneau was a snapshot of how pretrial delays have affected Alaska courts: victims, witnesses and defendants are often waiting years for a resolution, and their lives are put on hold in the meantime.

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995 and 2005. They include names, AP style and other content of their eras.

The plan would allow skilled trail workers to continue their work this summer, after half of the U.S. Forest Service trail crews were fired last month by the Trump administration.

An Alaska House panel on Wednesday advanced an education measure with a reduced school funding boost and education reforms to the House floor. House Bill 69 was introduced in January by members of the Democrat-dominated majority.

DOGE claims $4 million real estate savings in Alaska. In Alaska, this week, nine buildings were targeted in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency plan as part of cost-cutting effort by terminating building leases.

The executive orders are the latest in a decades-long tug-of-war between conservation and development in Tongass National Forest.

A repair ship is headed to Sitka to fix the damaged cable and restore a permanent connection, but it’s unclear how long that fix may take.

Alaska political leaders on Wednesday broadly welcomed President Donald Trump’s remarks to Congress talking up the prospects of the state’s long-sought but faltering natural gas pipeline. In his speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, the president said, “It will be truly spectacular. It’s all set to go.”

As the Trump administration freezes spending and hollows out federal offices, just identifying the extent of the impact is difficult, so lawmakers in Juneau and Washington D.C. are resorting to unusual means.