JuneauAlaska.com is the online visitor guide of The Juneau Empire. Incorporating content from The Juneau Empire, Juneau Guide and Marine Highway News, as well as content gathered and developed by the Empire's web staff, JuneauAlaska.com is the best source for Juneau visitor information on the web. All contents on JuneauAlaska.com are free to our online users.

The Juneau Empire, which is celebrating it's 90th year of publication, is at the forefront of coverage regarding local and state government, mining, Native issues and regional affairs. With a daily circulation of 7,400 and a Sunday circulation above 8,000, the Empire's penetration is more than 70 percent, serving the capital city and surrounding communities as the state's third largest newspaper.

To view nearly all of the daily editorial contents of the daily newspaper on the Internet, including searchable archives, please visit our sister site, JuneauEmpire.com.

The Juneau Empire is published Sunday through Friday, except holidays, by Morris Communications Corporation, 3100 Channel Drive, Juneau, Alaska, 99801. Weekly special sections include This Week, an an arts & enternatinment section on Thursdays, Outdoors, an in-depth outdoor activities features section on Sundays, Neighbors, a community news section which runs on Wednesdays and Fridays, and Business Spotlight, which runs on Wednesdays.

Other major publications include the Juneau Guide, a 150,000-circulation tabloid aimed at tourism, and the 120,000-circulation Marine Highway News, which covers the state's ferry system; a 40,000-circulation "Survival Kit" to the Legislature, featuring information about each Legislative session.

Juneau is the capital city of Alaska and is home to about 30,000 people. It is located in Southeast Alaska and is the third-largest city in the state. As a regional hub, Juneau is the center for medical, business, government and shopping for the area. It also is the largest city in Alaska's Panhandle, a vast coastal rainforest and island archipelago stretching more than 500 miles.

JuneauAlaska.com, JuneauEmpire.com and the Juneau Empire print editions are owned by Morris Communications Corporation. Morris Communications, a media company in Augusta, Ga., has owned the Juneau Empire since 1969.

Morris Communications owns more than 30 daily newspapers and 10 non-daily newspapers spanning the nation from Florida to Alaska to Michigan to California. Along with the Juneau Empire in Alaska, Morris Communications also owns the Kenai Peninsula Clarion, The Homer News, the Alaska Journal of Commerce, Alaska Oil & Gas Reporter, The Milepost, Alaska Magazine and six radio stations in Anchorage. Morris Communications employs some 6,000 men and women, of which 55 are employed by the Empire.

JuneauAlaska.com initially launched in spring of 1998 as a tourism site for the Juneau area. It was re-built as a Juneau city portal in Spring of 2000 by the Morris Digital Works web content development team and the Empire's web staff. This effort won the site the coveted Newspaper Association of America "Edgie" award, in the category of best Regional or City Guide for newspapers with circulation under 75,000. In 2002, it was further focused as a visitor guide.

Morris Digital Works is the Internet publishing division of Morris Communications Corporation. Morris has built some of the most award-winning and critically acclaimed sites on the web. Several Morris web sites have been national award winners as named by the Newspaper Association of America.

For more information on JuneauAlaska.com, please contact Connie McGee by e-mail or phone. Connie's e-mail address is webmaster@juneauempire.com. The phone number for the Empire is (907) 586-3740.