Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin won’t be visiting the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Southern California next week.

An Alaska company is extending cell phone service to the Arctic boroughs.

The west parking lot between Centennial Hall and the Juneau Arts & Culture Center will be closed for repaving this weekend.

The Anchorage Daily News reports the Inupiat Eskimo village of Noorvik is expected to be the first town in America to be counted in the 2010 census.

Tyler Dean “Tag” Eckles died on the morning of July 26, 2009, after a valiant fight against cancer, with his wife Hildegard and friends at his side. He was 59.

Tyler Dean “Tag” Eckles died on the morning of July 26, 2009, after a valiant fight against cancer, with his wife Hildegard and friends at his side. He was 59.

I’m writing to tell you about one of Juneau’s best kept secrets: The Learning Connection (SERRC’s little red schoolhouse at 210 Ferry Way). I taught English as a Second Language there this summer, and though I would love to have stayed, my husband and I are moving to Seward.

I’m writing to tell you about one of Juneau’s best kept secrets: The Learning Connection (SERRC’s little red schoolhouse at 210 Ferry Way). I taught English as a Second Language there this summer, and though I would love to have stayed, my husband and I are moving to Seward.

The MyTurn article in Wednesday’s Juneau Empire by Brian Holst, director of the Juneau Economic Development Council, not surprisingly champions the development and opening of the Kensington gold mine.

The MyTurn article in Wednesday’s Juneau Empire by Brian Holst, director of the Juneau Economic Development Council, not surprisingly champions the development and opening of the Kensington gold mine.