AUGUSTA, Ga. - Morris Publishing Group LLC has purchased Capital City Weekly, a Juneau-based free newspaper serving Southeast Alaska. In the same transaction, the company purchased Boat Broker, a companion publication published monthly.

Capital City Weekly began publication in 1980 as a 6,000-circulation shopper, consisting primarily of classified advertisements. Today the paper offers news and feature stories along with advertising and has an estimated circulation of 20,000. Boat Broker is a marine and outdoor recreation magazine with an estimated monthly circulation of 14,000.

Morris Publishing Group, parent company of the Juneau Empire, has other Alaska newspaper holdings in Kenai, Homer and Anchorage.

Morris Publishing Group was formed in 2001 and assumed the operations of the newspaper business segment of its parent, Morris Communications Co. Morris Publishing Group publishes 26 daily, 12 nondaily and 23 free community newspapers in the United States.