Alaska Redistricting Focuses on Legislature
The redistricting process has a greater impact on state legislative races in Alaska than it does congressional races. Alaska, with an estimated population of about 735,000 people, has just one...
View ArticleSenate Education Considers Dual Track Tenure System
The Senate Education Committee Monday began hearings on a bill that will establish different teacher tenure tracks for urban and rural Alaska. House Bill 162, sponsored by Representative Tammie...
View ArticleMore Than 2,300 Alaskans Sign Up for Insurance
Heavy web traffic and software glitches prevented some Alaskans from enrolling in the online federal marketplace on Monday, the deadline to sign up for coverage under President Barack Obama's...
View ArticleNew Alaska Coalition Says Corporations Aren't People
A new coalition wants Alaska political leaders and candidates to sign a pledge declaring that only people have rights, and not corporations and unions. The Anchorage Daily News says the grassroots We...
View ArticleFederal Deadline Passes for Alaskans to Sign Up for Health Care
Alaskans who want to sign up for health care under the Affordable Care Act have run out of time -- unless they've started the process. The deadline was midnight Eastern Standard Time, which meant in...
View ArticleParnell Proposes Millions in Tax Credits for Alaska's Three Refineries
Gov. Sean Parnell is putting forward a proposal in helping the state's three refineries provide lower cost fuels to in-state customers. The Fairbanks News Miner reports Parnell's proposal is new...
View ArticleLow Achieving Schools Get $1.5 Million Federal Grant
The U.S. Department of Education is granting more than $1.5 million to under-performing schools and school districts in Alaska, but state education officials haven't said how that money will be spent....
View ArticleLocals Praise Coast Guard's Fifth King Cove Medevac
King Cove officials are celebrating U.S. Coast Guard efforts in the rescue and transport of a “severely injured” fisherman when local treatment methods were unavailable. Coast Guard crews were able to...
View ArticleAlaska-Tested GPS Could Revolutionize US Skies
Imagine if Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 had been equipped with technology able to track the jet’s flight path anywhere in the world in real-time. Well that technology exists, and it could have helped...
View ArticleAlaska GPS Could Revolutionize US Skies
The technology is called ADS-B or automatic, dependent, surveillance -- broadcast and it's been used in Alaska for more than a decade.
View ArticleNo Immediate U.S. Tsunami Threat from Chile Quake
U.S. officials say they've found no imminent threat of a tsunami along the coasts of Hawaii, Alaska, California, Oregon or Washington after a major earthquake near Chile, but the danger is still under...
View ArticleMountain View Teen Fatally Shot
It's the second tragic death to occur for an Anchorage family in less than a year.
View ArticleTeenage Girl Killed in Mountain View Morning Shooting
A teenage girl is dead Tuesday after being critically injured in an early-morning shooting inside a Mountain View home. The girl's grandmother, Dana Sweatt, confirmed to Channel 2 that 15-year-old...
View ArticleSevere Restrictions Expected for Kuskokwim King Fishing
By Reporter Dan Carpenter. (KTUU-TV)
View ArticleHouse Committee Adds to Proposed BSA Increase
The House Finance Committee proposed several changes Tuesday to Gov. Sean Parnell’s omnibus education bill. The 11-member committee proposed several changed to the reform bill, introduced earlier this...
View ArticleSevere Restrictions Expected for Kuskokwim King Fishing
Rural communities along the Kuskokwim River are actively pushing for fishing restrictions aimed at protecting king salmon, with decisions made this week set to significantly affect subsistence fishing...
View ArticleAFD Units Extinguish South Anchorage Carport Fire
Anchorage Fire Department units safely extinguished a South Anchorage carport Tuesday night. AFD dispatchers weren’t able to provide further details about the fire, with initial reports coming in at...
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