FAIRBANKS — State Sen. Joe Thomas says the analysis should be ready next spring on the proposal to dam the Susitna River to generate electricity.

FAIRBANKS — State Sen. Joe Thomas says the analysis should be ready next spring on the proposal to dam the Susitna River to generate electricity.

ANCHORAGE — Police were looking into a report of a man in dark clothing walking on the Glenn Highway when he was hit and killed. Anchorage police say the man was walking in the center lane of the highway early Sunday when he was struck. He was declared dead at a hospital.

JUNEAU — The Shell Simmons roadway near the Juneau International Airport reopened today, airport officials announced. Traffic patterns will return to normal and passenger loading and unloading will occur in front of the terminal main entrance, according to a statement released.

Thornton Wilder’s “Skin of Our Teeth” at Perseverance Theatre was a fascinating and hilarious play.

Society needs to stop judging and harassing President Obama.

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Laurel Messerschmidt, a senior at Juneau-Douglas High School, returns a serve Sunday at the JRC. Messerschmidt won the girls’ singles tournament. Messerschmidt, along with seven teammates, will represent JDHS at state in Anchorage. A state review will appear in Tuesday’s Empire.

ON THE PORCUPINE RIVER TUNDRA, Yukon Territory – Here on the endlessly rolling and tussocky terrain of northwest Canada, where man has hunted caribou since the Stone Age, the vast antlered herds are fast growing thin. And it’s not just here.

CORDOVA – When wildlife investigators came to Marshall in July, Jason Isaac didn’t deny fishing illegally to protest subsistence fishing restrictions on the Yukon River.