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Airport holds open house on development proposals

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:19:39 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is looking toward the future.

Pilots in fatal Alaska crash on different signals

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:27:27 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The pilots involved in a deadly 2011 midair collision in Alaska apparently were communicating on different radio frequencies before the crash, according to a report by the National Transportation Safety Board, a finding that local aviators say underscores the danger of the mishmash of communication channels and federal guidelines in the area.

Law enforcement council revokes certifications

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:24:04 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska law enforcement panel is revoking the certification of nearly a dozen former police officers, state troopers and state Department of Corrections workers.

Man on trial for alleged 'snitch killing'

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:11:33 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A jury in Anchorage is being asked to decide whether a man killed another man because he was afraid of him or if he did it because the man had a reputation for being a snitch.

Plan calls for smoke-free public housing units

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:05:43 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Alaska Housing Finance Corp. is seeking comments on a plan to ban smoking in more than 600 of its public housing units.

Fire officials seek help solving suspicious fire

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:37:31 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Fire investigators in Anchorage are asking for help in solving a suspicious restaurant fire.

Lawmaker plans bill on conflict of interest rules

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:23:21 -0400

JUNEAU, Alaska - An Anchorage lawmaker plans to introduce a bill in the next legislative session that would overhaul Alaska's conflict of interest rules.

Governor signs oil tax, budget bills, vetoes $2.5M

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:40:17 -0400

JUNEAU, Alaska - Gov. Sean Parnell on Tuesday signed into law an overhaul of Alaska's oil tax structure, hailing it as part of an historic legislative package aimed at moving the state forward.

Alaska Pacific University cuts tuition 30 percent

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:57:12 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A private liberal arts college in Anchorage is lowering its tuition by more than 30 percent, with a goal of making a college education more affordable for Alaskans and boosting enrollment, the president of Alaska Pacific University said.

Bail denied for defendant in Coast Guard killings

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:07 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A federal judge has denied bail for a 61-year-old man accused of killing two men at the Coast Guard station on Kodiak Island.

Ex-state worker charged with workers' comp fraud

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:20:55 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A former Alaska state employee and his supposed masseuse are accused of worker's compensation fraud.

Alaska volcano's ash prompts flight cancellations

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:14 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska volcano eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights to nearby communities, including a town that reported traces of fallen ash.

Alaska volcano's ash prompts flight cancellations

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:38:14 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska volcano eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights to nearby communities, including a town that reported traces of fallen ash.

Police Standards Council to review officers

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:59:13 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Alaska Police Standards Council will meet Tuesday in Kenai to consider disciplinary action against more than a dozen state law enforcement, probation or corrections officers.

Alaska's Pavlof volcano continues to erupt

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:37:43 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Pavlof Volcano continues to erupt on the Alaska Peninsula, about 625 miles southwest of Anchorage.

Trial due to begin in Juneau baby death

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:11:14 -0400

JUNEAU, Alaska - A trial will begin Monday for a 24-year-old Juneau man charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 4-month-old daughter.

Searchers seek 2 missing on trip out of Kotzebue

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:43:12 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Searchers in northwest Alaska are continuing to look for two people missing since Wednesday on a snowmobile trip.

Coast Guard to take testimony on Shell grounding

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:21:59 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Coast Guard will kick off hearings Monday on how a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge used for Arctic Ocean exploratory drilling ended up aground off a remote Alaska island.

Copper River salmon arrive in Anchorage

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:04:05 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Copper River salmon has arrived in Anchorage stores and restaurants.

Aloha spreads across cultures

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:19:27 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - This time of year across the country, gyms and auditoriums fill with robed students, "Class of 2013" balloons and the strains of "Pomp and Circumstance." In Anchorage -- home to the highest concentration, per capita, of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders on the mainland -- another unique graduation tradition has taken hold among people from all backgrounds: the graduation lei. Draping a graduate's neck with bands of candy and flowers has become as expected in many families here as watching a graduate fling a mortarboard cap into the air.

Poet tries crowdsourcing to visit AK ghost village

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:08:30 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Joan Naviyuk Kane feels the pull of an ancestral place where she's never been, a crumbling ghost village built on stilts across the rocky face of a remote western Alaska island.

Alaska volcano shoots ash 15,000 feet into the air

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:14:20 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - One of Alaska's most restless volcanoes shot an ash cloud 15,000 feet into the air Friday in an ongoing eruption that is visible for miles when the weather allows.

Snow is in Alaska forecast for mid-May

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:01:14 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The calendar says it's spring in Alaska, but with lakes still frozen and snow in the forecast for the Anchorage area this weekend, many residents are saying enough is enough.

Alaska man runs onto frozen lake to avoid jail

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:28:05 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant.

Agency to consider listing for Alaska lake seals

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:16:22 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The National Marine Fisheries Service announced Thursday it will consider listing a population of harbor seals that live in a freshwater Alaska lake as a threatened or endangered species, a decision that could affect the massive Pebble Mine development project.