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New GE salmon labeling bill requires third party review
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced a bill on Thursday that would require all genetically engineered salmon to…
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Researchers plan further study of 1813 shipwreck near Sitka
SITKA — Archaeologists want to pay another visit this summer to a more than 200-year-old shipwreck near Sitka…
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Coast Guard Auxiliary class targets first-time boat captains
When a recreational boating accident happens, chances are that the operator was not paying enough attention or the…
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Senate panel proposes changes to legislative budget
JUNEAU — A legislative panel on Thursday proposed reducing funds for Senate travel and for the division responsible…
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Anchorage police report 15-car pileup amid snowy conditions
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police have responded to a 15-car pileup amid snowy conditions in the state’s largest city.…
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US rig count drops 13 this week to 489; Texas down 4
HOUSTON — Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural…
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Senate panels close out university, health budgets
JUNEAU — University of Alaska system president Jim Johnsen says a Senate panel’s recommendations for system funding are…
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Group promoting tourism as great investment for state
JUNEAU — An Alaska travel association is running a TV ad touting tourism as a great investment for…
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Rep. Gruenberg’s widow seeks control of legislative records
JUNEAU — The wife of late state Rep. Max Gruenberg wants her husband’s legislative records to help his…
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Anchorage man in state prison custody dies at hospital
ANCHORAGE — A man in state custody has died at an Anchorage hospital. Alaska State Troopers say 26-year-old…
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Investigation continues into police shooting of Barrow Fire Chief
One month after Barrow Fire Chief Vincent Nageak III was shot and killed by a North Slope Borough…
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Legislature appears headed for another end-of-session conflict
Forty-five days through its 90-day session, the Alaska Legislature appears to be in much the same position it…
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Committee applies some creativity to state budget
JUNEAU — Legislators are applying some creativity to the House version of the state operating budget as they…
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Bill to block Planned Parenthood in schools raises questions
JUNEAU — Lawmakers will consider a bill that a legislative attorney says could violate provisions of the state…
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Murkowski presses Corps of Engineers on Arctic port
ANCHORAGE — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is again asking the Army Corps of Engineers to advance a northern…
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Crime bill’s treatment of probation violators criticized
JUNEAU — The director of the criminal division for the Alaska Department of Law testified Thursday that a…
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First oil flows from NPR-A
NUIQSUT — Rising from the edgeless, wind-scoured, snow-covered tundra on Alaska’s North Slope lies a million-pound drilling rig…
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State moves to ban non-citizens from getting senior benefits
JUNEAU — State officials want to change eligibility requirements that now allow non-citizens to collect monthly senior benefits.…
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Alaska sends orphaned Kodiak bear to Ohio zoo in rare move
TOLEDO, Ohio — One of three Kodiak bears whose mother was killed by hunters has been relocated from…
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Walters appointed interim deputy education commissioner
JUNEAU — A retired state educator has been named interim deputy commissioner of the state education department. Interim…