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Obamacare signup deadline today

Today is the deadline to sign up for Obamacare in 2016. According to the U.S. Department of Health…

In this July 21, 2013 photo, Roland Maw takes notes during a hearing on the Magnuson Stevens federal fisheries management act in Kenai. On Wednesday, Maw was charged with falsifying his Alaska residency on 17 counts.

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Former Board of Fisheries nominee charged with PFD fraud

Roland Maw, a Kenai Peninsula commercial fishing advocate and the former executive director of the United Cook Inlet…

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Duluth man charged in Canada with making threats on airplane

DULUTH, Minn. — A northern Minnesota man accused of making threats on a flight from Alaska to Colorado…

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Geologists find tsunami hazard in eastern Aleutian Islands

ANCHORAGE — Geologists in Alaska have found evidence that a 125-mile section of the eastern Aleutian Islands that…

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State’s budget nibbles start to bite into CBJ

Nobody is calling their lawmaker to complain about the loss of municipal airport matching funds. In the debates…

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State to rebuild Baranof Warm Springs harbor

The Alaska Department of Transportation is seeking bids for a $1 million to $2 million project to rebuild…

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NTSB: Plane was destroyed after hitting Anchorage building

ANCHORAGE — The National Transportation Safety Board says wreckage from a small airplane that struck a downtown Anchorage…

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Kenai Peninsula College now implementing UA’s tobacco ban

KENAI — Staff and students at the Kenai Peninsula College have started the spring semester with the campus’…

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Anchorage police respond to disturbance, fatally shoot man

ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police responding to a disturbance at a home shot and killed a man Tuesday night.…

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Alaska Airlines seeks long-term presence in Petersburg

Alaska Airlines is looking to stay in Petersburg for the next 50 years. According to a public notice…

In this July 13, 2007 photo, workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region near the village of Iliamma.

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No bias in EPA’s study of Pebble Mine

JUNEAU — A government watchdog found no evidence of bias in how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conducted…

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Soldotna man arraigned following Spice bust

A Soldotna man pleaded not guilty in court Tuesday after the tobacco shop he worked in was busted…

Broken Up: Southeast Alaska's land and who owns it

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Broken Up: Southeast Alaska’s land and who owns it

Two weeks ago, a group of militiamen occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Their mission, they…

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Pilot Station helps authorities following armed jailbreak

BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say residents of Pilot Station helped them catch two men who escaped following…

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Alaska’s Congressional delegation has likes and dislikes in Obama’s final State of the Union

Sitting in the U.S. Capitol Tuesday night, Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, found some things to like in President…

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Proposed ordinance would make Fairbanks pot club illegal

FAIRBANKS — Proposed legislation in Fairbanks would make the city’s first private pot club an illegal facility. The…

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Alaska police can force out village leaders who won’t leave

ANCHORAGE — A federal judge on Tuesday allowed police to use force if needed to remove former officials…

FILE - In this March 3, 2014 file photo, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska speaks in Houston. The committee has voted to approve Dr. Robert Califf to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, but the nomination may face trouble on the Senate floor. Murkowski said she will hold up the nomination until she has reassurances from FDA that genetically modified salmon will be labeled as such. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

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Senate panel OKs Califf as FDA commissioner

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s choice for commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration won easy approval from…

In this Thursday photo, dead common murres lie on a rocky beach in Whittier. Federal scientists in Alaska are looking for the cause of a massive die-off of one of the Arctic's most abundant seabirds, the common murre.

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Starvation suspected in die-off of seabirds

ANCHORAGE — Seabird biologist David Irons drove recently to the Prince William Sound community of Whittier to check…

City finance director Bob Bartholomew, center, speaks during a special Assembly meeting with the Juneau legislative delegation in the Assembly chambers on Tuesday. Also shown are city lobbyist Kevin Jardell, left, Sen. Dennis Egan, center, and Deputy Mayor Jesse Kiehl, right.

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Assembly has breakfast with a side of bad news

The pastries were sweet, the news was not. On Tuesday, the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly hosted…