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...
Glenn Highway expanding to six lanes along Merrill Field
This morning in Anchorage a new project to expand the Glenn Highway from four to six lanes took a visible and noisy step forward.
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Violence against Alaska Native women attracts U.S. Senate attention
An advocate for Alaska Native women who've been sexually assaulted appeared today before the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee as it tackles the high...
Alaska State Troopers settle abuse lawsuit
The State has settled a lawsuit filed by a man who claims a State Trooper brutalized him when he was arrested nearly five years...
Alaska attempting to acquire Iditarod Trail easements
The state is trying to protect the Iditarod Trail. Cliff Larsen with the Department of Natural resources says the agency is working to secure...
Pool protest flows into assembly budget debate
It's not often that a non-agenda item packs the Anchorage Assembly chambers and then produces a half hour debate, but that's exactly what happened...
Wade stays in jail awaiting fraud trial; remains "person of interest"
Wednesday morning a U.S. District Judge in Anchorage moved Joshua Wade's trial for bank fraud from November to January. Wade is also "a person...
Water restrictions proposed in Alaska House could stop Pebble Mine
The second round of legislative hearings for House Bill 134 was held in Naknek yesterday. Almost 30 people from around Bristol Bay Borough and...
Wade will remain in jail awaiting fraud trial; remains "person of interest"
This morning a U.S. District Judge in Anchorage moved Joshua Wade's trial for bank fraud from November to January. Wade is also "a person...
Public interest organization probing relations between VECO and Alaska legislators
The Alaska Public Interest Research Group wants to know just how big an influence oil services company VECO had over the Petroleum Profits Tax...