Large ship emissions subject of petitions
Conservation groups and the State of California today filed petitions urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to start regulating greenhouse gas emissions from ocean-going...
Increasingly acidic oceans to impact Alaska's fisheries
We hear a lot about global warming these days, but what about global warming's evil twin? That's what researcher Dr. Richard Feely calls ocean...
Election results roundup
Voters across the state went to the polls yesterday to elect mayors, city and borough representatives and decide a long list of ballot initiatives....
Palin reveals proposed oil tax revisions
The Palin administration today gave the public its first look at the legislation that lawmakers will begin debating in the special session coming up...
Mining reforms debated in Congress
Don Young and other critics argued today that the latest round of proposals to reform the 135-year-old federal law covering mining on public lands...
Voters statewide choosing among Alaska's candidates and issues
Voters across the state are going to the polls today to participate in municipal elections.
Ketchikan voters are deciding whether to limit the number of...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Mat-Su voters considering land use implications of Prop 1
Mat-Su Borough voters will be weighing the pros and cons of the Private Property Protection Act when they head to the polls next Tuesday,...