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Four lawsuits have been filed against the Alaska Redistricting Board, seeking to change parts of the legislative map it adopted last month. Each lawsuit argues that communities were wrongly placed in the same district with other communities they have little in common with. 

The new police chief, Michael Castro, is moving to the remote Alaska island from Utah with his two sons this week.

As the annual Alaska Federation of Natives convention got underway Monday, Alaska Congressman Don Young also announced that Inupiaq business executive Tara Sweeney is one of his campaign co-chairs.

The city health department says an Anchorage resident recently tested positive for the omicron variant following international travel.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy said the hope is for a return to “robust” tourism activity after a difficult two years.

Although the moon will brighten up the sky and make it harder to see the Geminids this year, astronomers say from about 2 a.m. to sunrise, no matter your time zone, will be prime viewing time.

Alaska's U.S. Senators have staked out opposite ends of the Republican spectrum.

The Alaska Landmine suggests the Bronson administration pressured Anchorage police to leave a heated Assembly meeting and to compel doctors to prescribe ivermectin to a hospitalized COVID patient.

The lawsuit stems from Bronson’s firing of Clifford Armstrong III in October.

Metlakatla Indian Community is asking the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to rule that Metlakatla’s tribal members don’t need state permits to fish in their traditional waters.

The National Transportation Safety Board is continuing to investigate what caused a Yute Commuter Service plane to catch fire and burn on the Bethel runway on Nov. 20.

Fairbanks curler Vicky Persinger has earned a place on the U.S. team that will compete in the Winter Olympics in China in February.  According to...

The link between tornadoes, like the deadly ones that hit the Midwest over the weekend, and climate change isn't as clear as it is for other extreme weather events, though scientists say the clues are there.

Following an uptick in sexually transmitted infections nationwide, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is encouraging sexually active Alaskans to get tested for STIs. Anyone with an Alaska mailing address, including a P.O. box, can order a completely free STI self-testing kit.

Glacier Oil and Gas suspended operations in spring 2020 as demand for oil and gas tanked. Now that prices have largely rebounded, it's bringing two Cook Inlet wells online again.

That includes bringing back money for police officers in public schools, building safety inspectors, some early education grants and a roving team of crisis mental health providers.

Angela Rodell took over as CEO of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation in 2015. The board voted to dismiss her on Thursday and has provided no answers as to why.

Alaska Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer last year said the issue his office seemed to be getting the most email on after the 2020 election was the narrow success of a ballot measure that would overhaul Alaska’s election process. His chief of staff said they were getting up to 20 emails a day. But a records request by The Associated Press yielded fewer than 20 total unique emails that were received by the office with complaints or concerns about the election.

Haines' police chief said the bear was reported to be underweight meaning it was likely desperate for food. 

It’s been nearly five years since a Hilcorp pipeline off the coast of Nikiski began leaking fuel gas into Cook Inlet, a problem that lasted for months. State regulators will now revisit the circumstances of that leak at a hearing next week