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The class action lawsuit alleges the state has placed foster kids at risk and seeks system-wide reforms.
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Begich spent $100 on Bitcoin in 2013. It's worth about $760,000 now. A bill he sponsored would make the government a big buyer of the cryptocurrency and create a "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve." -
Rain overwhelmed culverts on a section of road near the Yukon River. -
President Trump signed an executive order in April directing the government to remove contracting rules that are not required by statute. -
The tribe intends to offer Class II gaming, which covers things like pull tabs, bingo and slot-style electronic machines, but doesn’t cover games like poker or blackjack. -
Duop Tharjiath, 29, had been held at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute for more than five years when he died there in March. -
Troopers said the body, discovered Friday just outside city limits, was dressed in winter gear and found in an advanced stage of decomposition. -
Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years. -
Members of the the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee stopped in Juneau Monday to talk about expanding logging and mining in Southeast Alaska. -
A U.S. Coast Guard construction officer in Kodiak estimates that an additional 300 people will come to the base within the next 10 years. -
Protestors rally for a Fairbanks woman held by ICE.
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