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Biologist Jordan Pruszenski measures an anesthetized bear during May 2025. Biologists take measurements and samples before attaching a satellite/ video collar to the bear’s neck. Photo courtesy Alaska Department of Fish and Game

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The scent of barren ground grizzly

Unlike most of us, Jordan Pruszenski has held in her arms the following wild animals: wolves, caribou, beavers,…

Mike O'Meara.

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Letters to the Editor

Masculinity choices

Larry Persily. (Juneau Empire file photo)

Opinion

Opinion: World doesn’t need another blast of hot air

Everyone needs a break from reality — myself included.

Van Abbott.

Opinion

Opinion: Senator Murkowski needs to caucus with Democrats

The Republican values she believed in are no longer.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy gestures during his State of the State address on Jan. 22, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)

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Opinion: It’s time to end Alaska’s fiscal experiment

For decades, Alaska has operated under a fiscal and budgeting system unlike any other state, and some could…

Northern sea ice, such as this surrounding the community of Kivalina, has declined dramatically in area and thickness over the last few decades. Photo courtesy Ned Rozell

Opinion

20 years of Arctic report cards

Twenty years have passed since scientists released the first version of the Arctic Report Card, now a staple…

Mike O'Meara.

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Homer Farmers Market annual meeting a great success!

Rudy Multz works as the Child and Family Program Manager for South Peninsula Behavioral Health and is a member of Planet Youth Homer. Photo provided by Anna Meredith

Opinion

Planet Youth Homer: Quality after-school programming protects kids

“It’s 10 p.m., do you know where your children are?” From 1960 through the late 1990s this public…

Carl Benson, born in Minneapolis in 1927, took this self-portrait of himself in Greenland when he was 28. Photo by Carl Benson

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Carl Benson embodied the far North

Carl Benson’s last winter on Earth featured 32 consecutive days during which temperatures in his chosen town did…

Larry Persily. (Juneau Empire file photo)

Opinion

Opinion: Dunleavy writing constitutional checks he can’t cover

Gov. Mike Dunleavy, in the final year of his 2,918-day, two-term career in the job, is picking at…

A vintage Underwood typewriter sits on a table on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, at the Homer News in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

Opinion

Opinion: Federal match funding is a promise to Alaska’s future

Alaska’s transportation system is the kind of thing most people don’t think about until it stops working. But…

Mike O'Meara.

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Thank you for supporting winter recreation

Van Abbott.

Opinion

Looting the republic

A satire depicting the systematic extraction of wealth under the current U.S. regime.