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Budget cuts pare real-time monitoring of volcanoes

...reduction in lab research, studies of eruption histories and lava survey flights. In Hawaii, lava flyovers of the Big Island's Kilauea volcano were reduced from once a week to once every two weeks.It's still early in the federal downsizing...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-15/budget-cuts-pare-real-time-monitoring-v
State
Fishermen want humpback whales off endangered list

...should come off," the West Hawaii fisherman told The Associated Press by telephone from Kailua-Kona on Hawaii's Big Island. Fishermen are concerned the Endangered Species Act is being used as a tool to manage the oceans and this will ultimately...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-06/fishermen-want-humpback-whales-endanger
State
Ketchikan reporter Miller dies

...Prince of Wales Island after KRBD opened its translator there in the mid-1980s to provide original content from the big island; he served as the station's program director, as well, and, later, as president of its board of directors.Kiffer...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-06-01/ketchikan-reporter-miller-dies
State
Senators: Court unapologetic for Maui conference

...years ago, in Honolulu in 2007 and on Kauai in 2003. It's also been held on Kauai in 1977 and 1983, in 1987 on the Big Island and on Maui in 1991, said David Madden, public information officer for the 9th Circuit."It is a part of our circuit...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-06-21/senators-court-unapologetic-maui-confer
State
New VPSO trades in Hawaiian sandals for Alaskan Xtratufs

...from VPO Academy No. 22 at the Yuut Elitnaurviat/People's Learning Center in Bethel. Born and raised on Hawaii's Big Island, Morrison fell for Alaska in 2006 when visiting brother-in-law Aaron Loges, also a VPSO, in Kake, a Tlingit village...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-06-23/new-vpso-trades-hawaiian-sandals-alaska
Local
Alaska is cool spot for winter tourism

...three weekly nonstop roundtrip flights between Anchorage and Maui.Alaska Air also has flights to Honolulu, Maui, the Big Island and Kauai via connections in Seattle.Alaska Airlines acquired the customer base for Anchorage-based Hawaiian Vacations...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-01-03/alaska-cool-spot-winter-tourism
State
Rats decimate seabird colony

...other islands. Scientists have used poison to remove rats from islands off New Zealand and British Columbia. The biggest island where it has worked is 27,900-acre Campbell Island, about 440 miles south of New Zealand. Kiska is more than...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071403/sta_seabirds.shtml
News
Hymer and DeVincent marry in June

...Scott Merry in addition to many other friends of the bride and groom. The newlyweds spent their honeymoon in Orlando, Fla., and will continue to make their home in Juneau until they retire to their other home on the Big Island of Hawaii.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090104/nei_hymer.shtml
Neighbors
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...Douglas Delivery Company * Douglas (Ron and Manya Pungowiyi-Reed) Original music & lyrics delivered to you from the big island. Emcee: Darius Mannino Stage Manager: Cheryl Levitt Wednesday Evening, April 12 * Centennial Hall 7:00 Forget-Me-Not...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/040900/Ins_folk.shtml
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...exemption. It started because of location," said Kathleen McNally, athletic director at Hawaii-Hilo, which stages the Big Island Tournament. "It is so hard to get people to come out here and play, and now it's going to make it that much more...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/041101/Spo_NCAA.shtml

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