Two vacationing couples — including sisters — and a fishing boat captain were on a charter boat found partially submerged off southeast Alaska over the weekend amid rough seas, family members said Wednesday.
Alaska’s cool and wet weather in May and now June, has had a very positive effect. Fire danger is at very low levels. Multiple low pressure systems engulf the state, from the Aleutians to interior to the Gulf of Alaska.
A Washington state man was convicted of multiple murder charges on Thursday after a jury found him guilty of murder a former romantic partner over six years ago in Ketchikan.
The Sanctioned Camps Community Task Force met Thursday for the first time since the Anchorage Assembly delayed discussion on its resolution over a week earlier.
NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement is offering up to $5,000 as a reward for information about the killing of seven Steller sea lions that leads to a civil penalty or criminal conviction.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, an airport master plan is a comprehensive study of an airport that considers the short, medium, and long-term needs for the airport’s infrastructure.
The USDA’s Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis M. Taylor stopped in Alaska on her way to Japan for an agricultural trade mission.
The Complex Behavioral Health Community Task Force has been working on recommendations to address the behavioral health needs of people experiencing homelessness, as well as those at risk of becoming homeless.
One of the five sanctioned camp locations being set up by a special Anchorage Assembly task force is located in a South Anchorage building that is being debated from both sides of the coin.
Bronson’s administration says it will not pursue a plan to allow people experiencing homelessness to camp at Centennial Campground as it did last summer.
A cool and wet weather pattern has engulfed the state and has stalled our trek into summer. Several low pressure systems keep up the barrage of rain, snow and gusty winds. Two systems will affect the northern half of the state, and yet another spins in the southern Gulf of Alaska.
The library’s online catalog has been updated so that users will not be able to check out any items that are currently unreachable in the storage facility.
Part of the Sanctioned Camps Community Task Force resolution that identifies possible campsites for homeless people in Anchorage was not received well by some of the entities listed in the proposal.
Leaving the dock at Yakutat Bay, Polynesian Voyaging Society President and pwo (master) navigator Nainoa Thompson was leading the sail with his trademark calculated intensity.
On Wednesday, after around 8 months of being in operation, the doors to the Sullivan Arena mass homeless shelter closed. The shelter had housed up to 360 clients at its max capacity this year, but spent the pass month operating on a limited client basis.
Begich and former Alaska Revenue Commissioner Sheldon Fisher are the primary investors in the purchase of both the Aviator Hotel and the former Post Office Mall on Fourth Avenue in Downtown Anchorage.
The month of May is concluding, and June starts Thursday and the weather across much of the state remains cool and less than summer-like even in southern areas of the state. Multiple lows will affect Alaska through the end of the week. Low dropping out of the arctic are bringing in cold air and a chance for snow over the Brooks Range and interior. Rain and showers are likely in southcentral.