ANCHORAGE — A remote Alaska volcano rumbled and sputtered Wednesday but was no longer spewing the massive ash clouds that disrupted airline traffic earlier in… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Three first-graders in Alaska’s largest city plotted to kill a fellow student with silica gel packets that the girls believed was poison and… Continue reading
The Alaska Senate has voted 15-5 to approve a bill banning smoking in most public buildings across Alaska.Senate Bill 1, brought forward by Sen. Peter… Continue reading
A bill allowing terminally ill Alaskans the ability to try experimental drugs has passed the Senate Health and Social Services Committee. The advance was announced… Continue reading
If the Alaska Legislature holds a special session this year, the Alaska Senate wants it to take place away from Juneau.In a 13-7 vote Wednesday,… Continue reading
At the end of Tuesday afternoon’s Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Anna MacKinnon, R-Anchorage, was envisioning a bridge.Constructed of four interlocking pieces of legislation, the bridge… Continue reading
JUNEAU — Alaska lawmakers are considering a bill aimed at preventing criminals from repeatedly returning to jail.The measure is part of a sweeping criminal justice… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers say a person has been found dead after a fire broke out in a home in the western Alaska village… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police say a fatal shooting of a man at an east-side apartment was preceded by an altercation with another person.Police say the… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A nonprofit organization serving 20 western Alaska villages says it will make $325,000 available this year to help people in its communities pay… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — An Alaska volcano kept pumping out new ash Tuesday that could threaten aircraft, but it came in smaller amounts at lower heights, according… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks North Star Borough officials have agreed to put a marijuana sales tax proposal before voters this fall.The Borough Assembly approved the ballot… Continue reading
The Alaska House of Representatives has extended the work of the state parole board and approved legislation regularizing the dividend paid by the Alaska Industrial… Continue reading
The Alaska House Finance Committee will hear public testimony on Senate Bill 74, the Medicaid reform bill, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight.Juneau residents… Continue reading
KETCHIKAN— Law enforcement officers with the Alaska State Troopers and Ketchikan Police Department arrested a fugitive from Washington state early Sunday morning.The suspect, a 31-year-old… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — A Nikolai home that is used as a checkpoint for dog races has burned down.The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported that the home, which… Continue reading
JUNEAU — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review an appeals court decision that reinstated prohibitions on road-building and timber harvests in roadless areas… Continue reading
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say a 6-year-old boy was responsible for a weekend fire that burned a garage in Ketchikan.The North Tongass… Continue reading
The Anchorage chapter of the NAACP has partnered with the Alaska Republican Party on a resolution in support of a bill reforming Alaska’s criminal justice… Continue reading
KODIAK — A Kodiak woman is hoping to open the city’s first commercial marijuana business.Janiese Stevens has applied for a cultivation facility in the city.… Continue reading
