JUNEAU — The Coast Guard says four people have been safely airlifted from a disabled fishing vessel in heavy seas Friday.Petty Officer 1st Class Bill… Continue reading
Gov. Bill Walker is preparing to propose a bill that would freeze the pay of nonunion employees at the University of Alaska, Alaska Court System,… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to an August deadline on whether to accept or reject a state plan to clean up heavily… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — An active Alaska volcano has erupted again, this time sending a cloud of ash and ice 35,000 feet in the air.The Alaska Volcano… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is vowing to work with the President-elect Donald Trump to address what Walker sees as an adverse land management… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage has reached an agreement with an Alaska Native corporation to settle a dispute over revenue generated by the sale of natural gas… Continue reading
WASILLA — A driver was critically injured in a crash on the Palmer-Wasilla Highway.Alaska State Troopers just before 7 a.m. Wednesday took a report of… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers say a second person found dead in November in a burned vehicle near Soldotna has been positively identified.Troopers say 39-year-old… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A federal plan for the recovery of an endangered Alaska beluga whale calls for a reduction in threats of high concern while scientists… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Scientists say an ash cloud from a remote Alaska volcano that might have gone more than 6 miles into the atmosphere has dissipated… Continue reading
PORTLAND, Maine — The federal government is changing some of the rules about how fishermen harvest tuna in an attempt to protect one of the… Continue reading
KENAI — State environmental officials are investigating the cause of a recent oil spill near the Tesoro Refinery in the Kenai Peninsula Borough.According to a… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks police have arrested a third person connected to a shooting that left a man wounded Dec. 13.The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported 20-year-old… Continue reading
FAIRBANK — A man reported missing outside Fairbanks has been found dead.Alaska State Troopers say the body of 23-year-old Ryan Zesiger was found Monday in… Continue reading
JUNEAU — A federal judge has agreed to temporarily halt proceedings in a lawsuit brought against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by the group behind… Continue reading
SITKA — On the last day of 2016, Sitka’s first legal marijuana retail shop opened its doors with roughly 10 pounds of pot for sale.Michelle… Continue reading
KENAI — Quick thinking and the proper safety equipment helped Kenai Peninsula resident Laurie Speakman come to the aid of a teen whose snowmobile caught… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly has voted to keep a controversial invocation policy that is being criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union… Continue reading
PETERSBURG — The U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a project to restore a stream south of Petersburg.Ohmer Creek has been damaged by decades-old… Continue reading
JUNEAU — Attorneys want a federal judge to halt temporarily proceedings in a long-running legal dispute between the group behind the proposed Pebble Mine project… Continue reading
