The Juneau Assembly will pursue a downtown cruise ship dock expansion despite warnings the cruise industry doesn’t support it.

800,000 ounces – was the highest since 1916. Alaska accounts for nearly 10 percent of U.S. production.

Lawmakers don’t return to Juneau until January, but some are already preparing.

The Juneau Empire hosted the “Pink Tie” benefit fundraiser for Cancer Connection at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month – which ended in October – and raised money to fight all forms of cancer.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

So it can’t get much worse than this, in this snake-bitten start to the Juneau-Douglas High School athletic year.

Southeast No. 1 seed Juneau-Douglas will face Northern Lights No. 2 seed Colony at 2 p.m. in the first round of the 2009 4A State Volleyball Tournament on Thursday at West Anchorage High School.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. – Two people from Alaska have died in a three-vehicle accident on Interstate 80 in central Nebraska.

ANCHORAGE – Anchorage police were looking for a reported drunken driver when her SUV crossed the center line on the Seward Highway and struck a car head-on.

FAIRBANKS – The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District is planning to provide free swine flu vaccines for any school-age children in the borough at a series of clinics scheduled to begin Nov. 19.