Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott has approved the language of a constitutional amendment proposed by the Alaska Legislature earlier this year. The amendment will be on… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Authorities are seeking the public’s help in investigating the widespread slashing of airplane tires at a small airport in the Alaska’s largest city.Police… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A shooting at a midtown Anchorage building early Friday has left a man in critical condition.Police just before 3:30 a.m. took calls of… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers say a man with a knife charged three officers Thursday night outside Palmer and was shot and critically injured.The 32-year-old… Continue reading
The National Park Service is collecting public comments on a proposal to add the X’unaxi cultural and historic site on Auke Cape to the National… Continue reading
The state of Alaska will fund its share of the K-12 replacement school for staff and 63 unhoused students in the Russian Old Believer community… Continue reading
NIKISKI — A group of residents of the Kenai Peninsula community of Nikiski are looking to formally become a city.Residents who have been investigating the… Continue reading
BETHEL — Only qualified subsistence users will be able to harvest chum and king salmon from the Kuskokwim River.The Federal Subsistence Board has closed federal… Continue reading
The Alaska Legislature has approved the Senate version of a $55 million insurance bailout bill. In a 24-10 vote Saturday, the House agreed with changes… Continue reading
The Alaska Senate voted 14-2 on Friday to approve a $55 million bailout of the state health insurance program that covers “high-risk” Alaskans.House Bill 374,… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Researchers in the Bering Sea off Alaska’s west coast will get help this summer from drones, but not the kind that fly.The National… Continue reading
KETCHIKAN — Caroline Robertson loves two things: Santa Claus and Barney.In that order.Which is why a smile erupted across her face Wednesday in Ketchikan when… Continue reading
The Alaska House is expected to vote as early as today on increases to the state’s taxes on gasoline, fish and mining.The House Finance Committee… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A 27-year-old man suspected of shooting at police officers in the nation’s northernmost community has been charged with attempted murder and attempted felony… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — The Alaska Division of Forestry says a wildfire in remote southwest Alaska has burned nearly 13 square miles.The fire is about 50 miles… Continue reading
KETCHIKAN — Canadian officials are asking Alaska residents to leave their guns stateside before traveling.The Canadian Border Service Agency seized about 300 undeclared firearms from… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Climbers with crow bars could rappel down canyon walls above an Alaska highway as early as next week in the first phase of… Continue reading
KENAI — Heading Kenai’s police department is a family affair as the new police chief was sworn in by his father who retired from the… Continue reading
Every two years, Celebration brings thousands of visitors to Juneau for a week of Alaska Native festivities. This year, Celebration events are on a collision… Continue reading
Juneau’s Republican representative to the Alaska Legislature will face a relative unknown in this fall’s election.Before Wednesday’s 5 p.m. deadline, Mendenhall Valley Democrat Justin Parish… Continue reading
