State business magazine releases list of top Alaska companies
On Monday the Alaska Business Monthly magazine released its list of the top 49 Alaska-based companies in the state. This year's list showed a...
Mat-Su District 1 election a choice between candidates and land uses
Sutton's Lynne Woods faces a challenge by Butte resident Bruce Walden for the Mat-Su Borough's District 1 Assembly seat. The race highlights the division...
Katmai float plane crash claims four lives
Four people died Sunday afternoon in a float plane crash in Katmai National Park, about 50 miles northeast of King Salmon, Alaska. The plane...
APOC probing VECO elections influence
The Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC) held an emergency meeting this afternoon to discuss their investigation of VECO's potential illegal financial ties to past...
Legislators Gara and French asking ethical questions of major oil companies
Two Alaska lawmakers are calling on major oil companies to disclose whether they coordinated with VECO while the company's executives were bribing state legislators...
Juneau water fluoridation on the ballot
If money talks, then the most controversial item on Juneau's October ballot is Proposition 2. It aims to put fluoride back in Juneau's drinking...
Mat-Su District 1 election a choice between candidates and land uses
Sutton's Lynne Woods faces a challenge by Butte resident Bruce Walden for the Mat-Su Borough's District 1 Assembly seat. The race highlights the division...
Fairbanks setting fires today to control fires tomorrow
The State Division of Forestry is burning trees and brush in areas bulldozed to create wildfire breaks. Fire Management Officer Robert Schmoll says the...
Anchorage's Glenn Highway expanding to six lanes along Merrill Field
Late last week in Anchorage a new project to expand the Glenn Highway from four to six lanes took a visible and noisy step...
Stream repairs in Southeast expanding salmon spawning sites
Efforts are underway in several parts of Southeast Alaska to repair salmon habitat damaged by logging. Work crews are tearing up roads, replacing culverts...
Mat-Su District 2 Assembly seat up for grabs by Houston or Liener
Two men are vying for District Two's empty Mat-Su Borough Assembly seat. Pete Houston and John Liener both have development issues at the heart...
White powder triggers Anchorage building lock-down
Photo by David Shurtleff
A building in downtown Anchorage was put on lock-down for most of this afternoon because of an anthrax scare. The scare...
Soldier guilty of planting evidence, but not murder
A military panel has found a Fort Richardson soldier not guilty of two counts of murdering unarmed Iraqis. Specialist Jorge Sandoval was acquitted of...
Big crab harvest expected in Bristol Bay this winter
State regulators are planning for a booming winter season in the Bering Sea this year, with harvest levels for red king crab set higher...
VPSO shortage vexing villages
Alaska's Village Public Safety Officer (VPSO) Senate Task Force heard sobering testimony this week at the Bering Strait Regional Conference in Nome about the...
Alaska Native leaders working with Census to get better 2010 numbers
The director of the Census Bureau heard from Alaska Native leaders about some of the problems from past census counts identified by Native people....
AFN President focusing on business development for rural Native areas
Earlier this week, Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) President Julie Kitka spoke to the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce about recent Indian Affairs committee hearings...
MCI long distance cards still recharging in Alaska
The MCI cards that Alaskans purchased through Costco are still in operation -- at least for a while. Verizon, the company that sold the...
Mat-Su District 2 Assembly seat up for grabs by Houston or Liener
Two men are vying for District Two's empty Mat-Su Borough Assembly seat. Pete Houston and John Liener both have development issues at the heart...
Bear Fortress gets second furry resident
A non-profit bear habitat in Sitka has acquired its second resident. The 100-pound orphaned brown bear cub will join his sibling at the Fortress...