JUNEAU - Gov. Bill Walker has proposed cutting hundreds more state jobs as part of a budget plan that includes the use of earnings from… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — A new scientific report finds man-made climate change played some role in two dozen extreme weather events last year but not in a… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers are investigating the cause of death of a Fairbanks man found in a pickup along the Parks Highway.The body of… Continue reading
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — The only U.S. ship capable of breaking through Antarctica’s thick ice is getting scrubbed down, fixed up and loaded with goods… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A Hillary Clinton supporter has sued Alaska’s three electoral college voters, trying to prevent them from casting votes for President-elect Donald Trump.Janice Park… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Possibly the unlikeliest customer of all became the first person to legally buy marijuana in Alaska’s largest city.Anna Ercoli, 81, pulled into Arctic… Continue reading
Gov. Bill Walker has unveiled a $4.2 billion state budget proposal that includes a new gasoline tax, the diversion of Permanent Fund earnings to government… Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY — Advocates for more state control of public lands and fewer government regulations on energy development hope Donald Trump will be more… Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY — Conservatives who have long complained about the government’s control of vast Western lands hope they will have a new ally in… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police have recovered a truck stolen while it was being used to make commercial deliveries of packages.Neither the thief nor the packages… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A woman walking along an Anchorage highway access road died when she was struck by a sport utility vehicle.Anchorage television station KTVA reported… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks police are investigating a shooting that left a man with multiple gunshot wounds.Police say 28-year-old Lawrence Lee Perdue continues to be treated… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A south Anchorage sushi restaurant was forced to close temporarily after a driver crashed his truck through a wall.Anchorage television station KTUU reported… Continue reading
The American Civil Liberties Union has launched a lawsuit against the Kenai Peninsula Borough over its controversial prayer policy at Assembly meetings. The lawsuit says… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — An Alaska judge has rescheduled a court hearing in a lawsuit challenging the new Inupiat Eskimo name of the nation’s northernmost town.The case… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Federal researchers looking for ways to contain petroleum spills in frigid Arctic waters are investigating whether a powder form of humble sawdust can… Continue reading
BETHEL — The contractor overseeing the $300 million expansion of a Bethel hospital is focusing its hiring efforts on Alaska Native workers and others from… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz plans to ask state lawmakers to fund nearly $300 million in improvements for the Port of Anchorage and to… Continue reading
JUNEAU — An estimated 36,000 uninsured Alaskans got health care coverage under President Barack Obama’s signature health care law between 2010 and 2015, according to… Continue reading
BETHEL — Reconstruction costs could reach $50 million for two Bethel schools that burned in a November 2015 fire.KYUK-AM reported the ECI Alaska Architecture firm… Continue reading
