Emily Miller

In Juneau, newbie curlers use rocks from the beach instead of curling federation-approved granite. And instead of curling ice, it's a frozen lake.

A judge has ruled the man accused of fatally shooting two Hoonah police officers in August 2010 is competent to stand trial. The ruling clears the way for a jury trial to proceed, and a two-week long trial was scheduled to begin Oct. 22.

Litterbugs, beware. The city is no longer willing to pick up after you.

A few days before Gloria Ann Plummer's body was found on a faded blue Lady Americana mattress in the concrete crawl space under a Juneau bridge, kids threw stones at her camp.

Norman L. Smith, a decorated World War II paratrooper and esteemed Alaska educator, died at his home in Albion, Neb., on Dec. 21 after a 20-year battle with post-polio syndrome, his family said. He was 86.

The man who was accidentally shot in the leg Saturday near a gun range in Juneau has had his leg amputated as a result, according to a family member.

Many might remember Robert Boochever as the chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, or as the judge President Carter appointed to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1980 -- the first Alaskan to serve on that panel. But for daughters Barbara, Linda, Ann and Mimi, he was Dad.