JUNEAU — The Alaska Marine Highway System is changing the way passengers pay for ferry sailings on a Southeast Alaska route starting next year.Ferry spokesman… Continue reading
The state of Alaska has chosen a familiar group to conduct standardized tests for students across the state.On Thursday, the Alaska Department of Education and… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — Police in Alaska say the suspected gunman in an apparent murder-suicide that left four dead at a Fairbanks hotel was the son of… Continue reading
BETHEL — A University of Alaska Fairbanks study says climate change is having significant impacts on subsistence hunting and travel in communities across Alaska.Assistant professor… Continue reading
BOSTON — Changing marijuana laws aren’t necessarily making weed more welcome in the workplace.For now, many employers appear to be sticking with their drug testing… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police have made in arrest in an attack on a woman jogging in July near East High School.Police on Wednesday arrested a… Continue reading
Smoking will soon be extinguished in all public housing across the United States, but the Alaska Public Housing Finance Corporation is planning to move quickly… Continue reading
Two Alaska Native tribes on the Kenai Peninsula will receive approximately $1 million over the next five years to help address substance abuse and mental… Continue reading
The Alaska House’s new minority caucus has some familiar faces at the top.In a message sent at the close of business Wednesday, the 18-member House… Continue reading
NEW YORK — Taking the offensive after Election Day setbacks, Planned Parenthood and its allies filed lawsuits Wednesday in North Carolina, Missouri and Alaska challenging… Continue reading
NEW YORK — Giving Tuesday, a 5-year-old phenomenon aimed at encouraging online charitable giving, produced record-shattering donations this week, according to two organizations which tracked… Continue reading
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday approved one controversial pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific Coast, but rejected another.He… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — Autopsies have confirmed that four people died of gunshot wounds last week at a Fairbanks hotel.Fairbanks police said the results support the theory… Continue reading
KODIAK — Operators of the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak said the facility’s next launch won’t take place before the end of the year as… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — The state has begun receiving its first tax payments from marijuana businesses, one month after the start of legal pot sales in Alaska.The… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Alaska’s money managers are off to a solid start in the first months of the state fiscal year.The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. announced… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A break-in at an Anchorage marijuana store has delayed the store’s opening by a few weeks.KTVA-TV reported that the owners of Enlighten Alaska… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — An Anchorage grand jury has indicted a 25-year-old man on murder and theft charges.Trevon Allridge is charged with first- and second-degree murder in… Continue reading
KENAI — A conservation organization is working to gather more information on the Kenai Peninsula’s Russian River in an effort to show the impact of… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Four Alaskans have died this year in an outbreak of invasive strep bacteria that has mostly affected the homeless and Alaska Natives in… Continue reading
