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The sponsor of a wastewater discharge bill intended to protect fish spawning grounds from mine waste says his bill is dead.

Every competitor now running the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will be tested for alcohol and illegal drugs on the trail for the first time in the history of the 1,100-mile race — a change defending champion Lance Mackey believes is directed at him.

A Fairbanks police officer has shot and killed a man who pointed a handgun at him.

A bill that would change Alaska’s system of taxing oil and gas production together got its first hearing Tuesday, with consultants giving the Senate Finance Committee a rundown on the separation of the two.

Alaska’s congressional delegation remains split along party lines on health care reform.

Two avalanches Tuesday morning have forced the closure of the Seward Highway south of Anchorage, cutting off traffic to the Kenai Peninsula.

Canada’s Sebastian Schnuelle is in the lead Tuesday morning, more than 190 miles into the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

State prisons are overcrowded but they generally provide better living conditions than prisons in the Lower 48, said the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska.