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Elections director: Division ready for election

JUNEAU — A lawsuit spawned by poll worker errors in the August primary election served as a teaching moment, Alaska’s elections director said, adding that… Continue reading

Sport fishing guide pleads guilty, fined for violations

HOMER — A Soldotna sportfish guide has been ordered to pay $5,000 and has had his guiding privileges suspended after being charged with illegally taking… Continue reading

US Senate candidates face off in final debate

JUNEAU — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski sought to fend off attacks from two of her rivals during their final debate before Tuesday’s election.Libertarian Joe Miller… Continue reading

Sterling teenager dies in pickup crash near Kasilof

KASILOF — A Kenai Peninsula teenager is dead after a crash near Kasilof.Alaska State Troopers said 17-year-old Mykah Slater of Sterling died in the crash… Continue reading

Sitka veterinarians try to find missing pet cockatoo

SITKA — A Sitka couple is asking for the community’s help in locating their Moluccan cockatoo.Burgess Bauder and his wife, Victoria Vosburg, who are both… Continue reading

Body of missing pilot found with plane wreckage

ANCHORAGE — The body of a pilot who went missing last week has been found with the wreckage of his crashed plane in the Alaska… Continue reading

High winds prevent airliner from landing in Ketchikan

KETCHIKAN — High winds prevented an Alaska Airlines jet from making a scheduled landing in Ketchikan on Thursday morning.The Ketchikan Daily News reported the fight… Continue reading

Tanana man sentenced in deaths of state troopers

FAIRBANKS — A rural Alaska man who shot and killed two Alaska State Troopers has been sentenced to 203 years in prison.Nathanial Kangas, 22, was… Continue reading

Man charged with attempted murder in Hatcher Pass assaults

ANCHORAGE — A 34-year-old Anchorage man tried to kill two brothers he suspected of stealing his wallet, according to state prosecutors.Matthew Scharber is charged with… Continue reading

Ketchikan responders free man trapped in ice house system

KETCHIKAN — One person was transported by ambulance to PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center following a Tuesday afternoon incident at the E.C. Phillips and Son Inc.… Continue reading

2 bodies found in burned Soldotna home; autopsies ordered

SOLDOTNA — The bodies of two people have been recovered from a home that burned on the Kenai Peninsula.Alaska State Troopers shortly after 2:15 a.m.… Continue reading

Ballot could add legal pot to Las Vegas’ list of vices

LAS VEGAS — Nevada already has legal brothels, round-the-clock casinos and a coy catchphrase declaring that “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” If voters… Continue reading

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, file photo, Carol Curley serves lunch to Bureau of Indian Education Director Charles "Monty" Roessel, from left, Acting Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Lawrence S. Roberts, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and fifth-grade student Meishi Harrison at Cove Day School in Cove, Ariz. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, named Tony Dearman, who is Cherokee, to head the Bureau of Indian Education, a division of the U.S. Interior Department that has oversight of nearly 200 schools in some 20 states. (Jon Austria/The Daily Times via AP, File)

New director to take over troubled Indian education agency

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Federal officials named a new director Wednesday to head a troubled agency that funds and manages scores of schools for Native American… Continue reading

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, file photo, Carol Curley serves lunch to Bureau of Indian Education Director Charles "Monty" Roessel, from left, Acting Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Lawrence S. Roberts, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and fifth-grade student Meishi Harrison at Cove Day School in Cove, Ariz. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, named Tony Dearman, who is Cherokee, to head the Bureau of Indian Education, a division of the U.S. Interior Department that has oversight of nearly 200 schools in some 20 states. (Jon Austria/The Daily Times via AP, File)
Artist Sarah Davies stands near statues in a new public art installation Wednesday at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage. Davies was also the lead artist in an art installation that included the sculptures, which have been restored for the exhibit opening Friday after they were damaged by tides and high winds last year.

Statues damaged by elements return for new exhibit

ANCHORAGE — Creators of a public art installation damaged by tides and high winds at a beach in Alaska’s largest city have returned with 43… Continue reading

Artist Sarah Davies stands near statues in a new public art installation Wednesday at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage. Davies was also the lead artist in an art installation that included the sculptures, which have been restored for the exhibit opening Friday after they were damaged by tides and high winds last year.

Prosecutors upgrade charges in officer’s death

ANCHORAGE — The man charged in the shooting of a Fairbanks police officer now faces upgraded charges that include murder.Anthony Jenkins-Alexie faces additional charges of… Continue reading

Ketchikan works to fix welcome arch

KETCHIKAN — Ketchikan officials are working to fix the arch that welcomes visitors to the city after a suspected drunken driver slammed into one of… Continue reading

This Oct. 31, 2016, photo shows an icon of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, which sits behind the altar of Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church, in Kenai. The icon was torn when a cross fell on it during an earthquake on Jan. 24, 2016. The church is raising funds to send the icon to a conservator in Colorado who will repair the rip, as well as an earlier candle burn above and to the right of the rip.

Church seeks funding to repair icon damaged by earthquake

KENAI — A painted icon of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane that sits behind the altar in a Kenai church is closer to… Continue reading

This Oct. 31, 2016, photo shows an icon of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, which sits behind the altar of Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church, in Kenai. The icon was torn when a cross fell on it during an earthquake on Jan. 24, 2016. The church is raising funds to send the icon to a conservator in Colorado who will repair the rip, as well as an earlier candle burn above and to the right of the rip.

North Dakota officials borrow $4M, slam feds on protest cost

BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota leaders agreed Tuesday to borrow an additional $4 million to cover the escalating costs of policing protests at the Dakota… Continue reading

Weather hampers search for pilot missing near Lake Clark

ANCHORAGE — The National Park Service says poor weather Monday again hampered efforts to find an Anchorage pilot missing in Lake Clark National Park and… Continue reading

UAF students call for better handling of sex assault cases

FAIRBANKS — Students at the University of Alaska Fairbanks are questioning how school officials have responded to reports of sexual assault.They voiced their concerns Sunday… Continue reading