PETERSBURG — Southeast Alaska biomass experts believe that the low price of oil shouldn’t put wood heat projects on the chopping block.When the price of… Continue reading
BANGOR, Wash. — An Alaska-based company that provides operations support for Kitsap County Navy bases is planning layoffs.The Kitsap Sun reported that Chugach Federal Services… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Homes at higher elevations in Anchorage experienced high wind gusts Tuesday night but the city mostly escaped damage from a storm that blew… Continue reading
The state director battling some of the world’s largest oil companies over marketing Alaska’s North Slope gas is stepping down.Corri Feige, director of the Alaska… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Police are monitoring a south Anchorage home where workers trimming trees for a utility reported shots were fired.Police spokeswoman Anita Shell says a… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — The Alaska Railroad is making final preparations for the first U.S. rail shipments of liquefied natural gas, a fuel that could be used… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — The city of Fairbanks on Wednesday placed its police chief on administrative leave.City human resources director Angela Foster-Snow says in a release the… Continue reading
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — American Indian tribal leaders from northern New Mexico — an area of the country devastated by heroin and opioid addiction — are… Continue reading
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is no longer the state with the highest rate of women killed by men.The Violence Policy Center announced Tuesday that… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has received $3 million in federal grants to support the expansion of its resources for students… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Alaska Gov. Bill Walker’s administration is resurrecting a stalled plan under which it would use borrowed money to reduce the hundreds of millions… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — It’s already known that the yearly check given to nearly every single Alaskan from the state’s oil wealth fund is going to be… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — The state will spend $650,000 on a new program to weed out fraudulent Permanent Fund dividend applications under a no-bid purchase last month… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A former Anchorage doctor convicted of sexually abusing four children will serve at least 23 years in prison.Clifford Merchant was given a 51-year… Continue reading
SITKA — With Holland America Line putting bigger ships on the Southeast Alaska run and other lines adding Sitka stops, the town can expect a… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Alaska state health officials say an elementary school student in Kotzebue was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis, but they will not say if it… Continue reading
KENAI — Former Kenai Mayor John Williams is leading an effort to restore a World War II-era Kenai Fire Department engine.Williams said he plans to… Continue reading
KENAI — Though it may not be overly visible or accurately recorded, homelessness on the Kenai Peninsula is a pervasive issue.Kenai Peninsula Journey Home, an… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police have arrested a 38-year-old man suspected of two armed robberies.Police said John Moore also is charged with assault and theft.A man… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police continue to seek four men suspected of three weekend robberies, including an attack that left a 72-year-old man with a skull… Continue reading
