Alaska

Communication with the three has been scant since they left Old Crow, Yukon, on April 6, after receiving new clutches to replace the original ones on two of their snowmachines....

The House's budget is set to be debated Monday, but it's unclear if it will advance to the Senate on the same day....

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said he would not support adding $15 million to boost the wages of child care workers despite calls from advocates who say such a move is needed to prevent child care providers from falling "off a cliff."...

Effective immediately, Mayor Dave Bronson replaced the director of Solid Waste Services, Dan Zipay, with Evalu Filitaula, who has worked there since 2005....

With the exception of Proposition 13, Anchorage voters appear set to approve all bonds and ballot measures....

The team at Providence Health Park tried a variety of tactics to guide the moose back outside on Thursday, including using a bit of plant as a lure and creating a human wall....

The case is the second time in a month Alaska prosecutors have charged a cold case sex crime based on the results of an effort to reexamine long-untested DNA evidence....

Bipartisan House minority members left the floor for three hours in protest over a proposed spending plan that would require a $600 million draw from savings....

A federal grand jury indictment alleges that a Willow resident embezzled more than $1.16 million total from the City of Houston and a Wasilla-based equipment company....

The two Anchorage School Board incumbents also held wide leads over their challengers in updated preliminary results Wednesday. Most bonds and ballot measures were passing, with the exception of Proposition 13....

Prolonged winter weather in much of Alaska factored into the state's decision to extend the deadline by 15 days. In Anchorage and other areas above 60 degrees north, the deadline is now May 15....

Illustrator Mitchell Thomas Watley was dropped by his publisher this week after authorities allege he posted transphobic notes in locations around Juneau threatening children....

The letter asks the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide lawmakers with the medical literature that informed the agency's support for gender-affirming care....

Dave Donley is fending off a challenge by a large margin from Irene Boll, while Andy Holleman has a wide lead against challenger Mark Anthony Cox....

More than 80 Rubik's Cube solvers converged on downtown Anchorage for the Up in the North competition, which had doubled in size since the last event in 2019....

In the month before ballots are due several conservative candidates outperformed rivals, boosted in part by the end of donation limits in Alaska elections....

In a 6-1 vote, school board members voted in favor of dissolving the Family Partnership Charter School's charter....

The Alaska Judicial Council is in need of applicants for the position of Alaska Public Defender....

A 22-year-old Russian Mission man was convicted by a Bethel jury last week....

Anchorage Democrat Lki Tobin, co-chair of the Senate Education Committee, said there should be a permanent funding increase this year for the stability and predictability of schools....

Anchorage voters will elect seven of 12 Assembly members, two school board members and decide fourteen ballot propositions, including a school bond....

A satirical My Turn for April Fool's Day....

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More than 100 Alaskans spoke Thursday against a bill proposed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy that would limit the rights of LGBTQ+ kids in public schools....

The lawsuit by Roger Hickel Contracting alleges breaches of contract and good faith over work done last year at the East Anchorage site of a proposed facility for sheltering people experiencing homelessness....

Two men face first- and second-degree murder charges and a 17-year-old is facing a charge of second-degree murder in the beating death of an 80-year-old man in Klawock....

The last day for Anchorage voters to submit their ballots in the 2023 municipal election is Tuesday, April 4....

Radio and TV stations along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska were expected to broadcast a test of an emergency alert — similar to what you'd hear during a real tsunami. But some communities didn't hear it at all....

Executive director Darlene Supplee and the Fairbanks Senior Center announced Friday that food boxes aare vailable to help area citizens with the SNAP delay....

As part of the Department's Investing in America tour, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Tommy Beaudreau announced Friday that the Department will invest more than $16 million over the next four years from President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructur...

FBI officials said John Daniel Brooks had one of the largest collections of child pornography they had ever seen, according to court documents....