Police Identify Man?s Body in Chester Creek Outdoor Death
Anchorage police have identified a man's body found last week near Chester Creek in an apparent outdoor death. According to a Wednesday statement from APD spokesperson Jennifer Castro, 49-year-old...
View ArticleThree-Fourths of Iron Dog Teams Prepare for Race?s Second Half
About three-fourths of the Iron Dog snowmachine race’s 2014 field is on track to leave Nome after a 36-hour layover, opening the second half of the high-speed dash to Fairbanks after covering about...
View ArticleWhat Does Arming VPSOs Mean for Rural Alaska?
There are no snow berms to speak of in Bethel on a sunny Tuesday in February, and the nearby tundra is similarly, conspicuously, ice-slicked and snow-free. At the Alaska Commercial Value Center,...
View ArticleHouse Judiciary Hears Education Amendment
The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday took testimony on a constitutional amendment to allow state funds go to private schools. Rep. Wes Keller, a Republican from Wasilla, is sponsor of House...
View ArticleHouse Judiciary Considers Attorney General Vote
The House Judiciary Committee took up a constitutional amendment Wednesday that would allow voters to choose their state attorney general. The proposed amendment sponsored by Chugiak Republican Rep....
View ArticleMurkowski Blasts Feds over King Cove Road During Address
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski used her annual address to a joint session of the Alaska Legislature to criticize the U.S. Department of the Interior over its rejection of a road through the Izembek National...
View ArticleOfficials: Canada-U.S. Pipeline Won't Hurt Alaska
The proposed 1,100-mile Keystone XL pipeline would carry Canadian oil to U.S. refineries in the Gulf of Mexico -- but officials in Alaska's resource industry say it won't significantly harm the...
View ArticleCautious Optimism from Rural Alaska for Arming VPSOs
This time last year, Chance Cunningham was a correctional officer in Missouri.
View ArticleWind Energy Could Double on Fire Island by 2015
Wind energy is a trend that has taken the Lower 48 by storm -- and many Alaskans are hoping it will mean more renewable energy in the Last Frontier. Chugach Electric Association board members heard...
View ArticleAlaska Supreme Court Hears Abortion Case on Parental Notification
A challenge to a controversial abortion initiative passed by voters in 2010 was argued before Alaska's Supreme Court on Wednesday. The parental notification law requiring doctors to tell a parent...
View ArticleBlake Essig Challenges Russia in Ice Climbing
Channel 2's Blake Essig promised Tuesday that he would challenge an opponent at the Winter Olympics in Sochi to an ice-climbing duel Wednesday -- see who kept cool under the pressure.
View ArticleCautious Optimism from Rural Alaska for Arming VPSOs
This time last year, Chance Cunningham was a correctional officer in Missouri. Cunningham was raised in Anchorage, Juneau and in Lower 48 cities, the son of a career U.S. Marshal. Walking along a...
View ArticleSupporting LNG Pipeline, Feds Wary of 'False Start'
A federal official told state lawmakers the feds are ready to work on a liquefied natural gas pipeline project but don't want another false start. Larry Persily is federal coordinator of Alaska...
View ArticleFather of Woman Claiming to be Serial Killer Speaks Out
The father of a Pennsylvania woman who with her newlywed husband is charged with killing a man she met through Craigslist says he would support his daughter's execution if she is found guilty....
View Article1 Dead, 1 Critically Injured in South Anchorage SUV Rollover
Police and medics responded just before 3:30 a.m. Thursday to the scene of a fatal South Anchorage car crash. Police say initial calls about the crash, at the intersection of O'Malley Road and...
View ArticleFBI: Violent Crime Down, Property Crime Up in Anchorage
The good news in a crime report just released by the FBI is that violent crime was down in the first half of 2013 for Anchorage. The bad news for Anchorage was that property crimes spiked during the...
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