FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks Memorial Hospital’s senior culinary manager gets to be creative with the menu.Ray Flores, 51, likes to make new recipes. Recently, he’s been… Continue reading
SITKA — Budget projections have Sitka Community Hospital with a positive bottom line in 2017.Assembly members unanimously approved a $25.5 million hospital budget last week… Continue reading
KENAI — While some students worry about math tests or an upcoming sporting competition, a handful at Aurora Borealis Charter School and Kenai Central High… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — The Alaska Volcano Observatory has lowered the threat level for a remote volcano near the Aleutian Islands.The observatory said eruptions and minor ash… Continue reading
JUNEAU — The state Department of Labor says Alaska’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held steady at 6.6 percent in April.That’s the same rate as March… Continue reading
JUNEAU — U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan says allegations of doping by Russian athletes undermine the confidence in the competitive process of the Olympics and a… Continue reading
A last-minute move made by the Alaska House-Senate Conference Committee on the state budget that could decrease Ketchikan School District funding by $237,000 has Ketchikan… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A man sought for questioning in the disappearance of a remote Bering Sea island woman killed himself before he could be questioned by… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Months after a school secretary in the western Alaska village of Hooper Bay lost her son to an accidental death, she says she… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A search was to resume Friday for an Air Force airman from Texas man missing on a kayaking trip at an Alaska lake.Alaska… Continue reading
KODIAK — A state wildlife trooper shot and killed a brown bear in Kodiak following a week of reported bear sightings in the community, including… Continue reading
Alaska’s budget talks have failed.Shortly before midnight Thursday morning, the Alaska Legislature adjourned without fixing the state’s $4 billion annual deficit and without providing a… Continue reading
TOK — A boy is recovering from an accidental shooting near Tok.Alaska State Troopers on Wednesday afternoon received a call that the child had shot… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Kenneth Steck doesn’t know why a large brown bear that charged and mauled him in the thick brush near the Southeast Alaska town… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police have arrested a suspect in a shooting that left a man wounded at a busy gas station.Police say 37-year-old Hershell Ray… Continue reading
In the Tlingit idiom, Elaine Elizabeth Abraham “walked into the forest” early Monday morning. The much-accomplished Tlingit woman from Yakutat died around 1:30 a.m. at… Continue reading
NOME — Nome officials say things are under control at the city morgue after police sent an email to community members requesting assistance in identifying… Continue reading
HONOLULU — A new study by University of Hawaii researchers says there’s a 9 percent chance that an earthquake measuring magnitude 9 or greater will… Continue reading
KETCHIKAN — North Tongass residents are being warned to keep a close watch on their pets after two wolf attacks in the area. One dog… Continue reading
