Legislators have been seeking to learn why Angela Rodell, the former executive director of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp., was abruptly ousted last month.
At the Spenard Community Recreation Center on Monday, area children in first through 12th grade were invited to hear guest speakers encourage them to live their dreams. It was an event to commemorate the achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Alaska Legislature has voted to keep mandatory masking rules in place in the state Capitol along with regular COVID-19 testing for legislators and their staff.
The NTSB believes faulty wiring may be to blame for a Nov. 20, 2021, fire onboard a Yute Commuter Service flight after it returned to the Bethel Airport.
The Hunga Tonga ha’apai volcanic eruption that occurred Friday evening sent pressure waves around the world, multiple times. The Hunga Tonga undersea volcanic eruption was the largest on earth over the last 30 years, according to Research Physical Scientist Brian Brettschneider with the National Weather Service Alaska region.
A tsunami warning has been issued by the National Weather Service following the eruption of an undersea volcano just before 4:30 a.m. near the Pacific nation of Tonga. The warning has been issued for coastlines all the way from Attu island to the border of California and Mexico.
The Anchorage Assembly is considering a measure that would update the requirements in city charter for filling a vacancy in the mayor’s office, requiring a special election to be held within a set amount of time to ensure an elected successor.
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities reported that the M/V Kennicott collided with the M/V Hubbard while docking in Ketchikan at 4:25 a.m. on Friday.
As the omicron variant of COVID-19 drives case numbers up exponentially in Alaska, a shortage of commercially-available at-home tests has some Alaskans wondering what the best course of action is, and when federal tests will be available.
North Pole police have arrested a man involved in the attempted robbery of firearms on North Santa Claus Lane on charges of robbery and manslaughter after his co-conspirator was shot and killed during the incident.
The FBI in Alaska says three men were recently sentenced for sex and human trafficking. One Anchorage man received a sentence of 35 years in federal prison on five counts of sex trafficking minors.
Following a series of volatile, disruptive meetings last year, the Anchorage Assembly will consider putting additional rules for meeting procedures into municipal code.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a state disaster declaration Thursday after a snowstorm dumped up to six feet of snow in Southeast Alaska, with communities like Yakutat seeing building damage due to heavy snow.
The Anchorage School District has extended its requirement that masks be worn by staff and students, as the omicron variant continues to spread and is causing COVID-19 cases within the district to rise.
A far-right social media personality who calls himself “Baked Alaska” was sentenced to 30 days in jail for misdemeanor convictions arising from an encounter in which authorities say he shot pepper spray at an employee at an Arizona bar.
The National Park Service is proposing a roughly 400-foot steel bridge along a section of road that runs through Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve.
The Anchorage Assembly has pushed back the public hearing for Mayor Dave Bronson's proposal to have the municipal clerk an elected position to later this year, meaning it won't make it on the ballot for the upcoming election.
The state of Alaska reported more than 4,000 additional COVID-19 infections over the last two days, breaking the previous record for the highest number of cases reported in a single day as the rapid spread of the omicron variant continues.
Anchorage police have confirmed the identity of a man found dead in Anchorage just days before Christmas, and are investigating his death as suspicious.
Alaska COVID ENX is a system developed jointly by Apple and Google that uses Bluetooth technology on smartphones to let people know when they may have been exposed, giving Alaskans access to technology that can alert them if someone they were in close contact with tested positive for COVID-19.
Alaska National Guardsmen departed Anchorage early Wednesday morning to assist residents of Yakutat with snow removal that threatens to damage or collapse dozens of buildings in the coastal community.
The Military In Lasting Tribute memorial is a virtual memorial for U.S. military members who are not featured on any other war memorials, and contains the names and the faces of those who died on active duty from 1985 until present day.
Providence Alaska, which runs the largest hospital in the state, announced on Wednesday that Anchorage’s chief of police, Ken McCoy, has been named as its first region chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer.
A 72-year-old man was charged with sexually abusing a minor that lived in the same house as him, according to a press release from the Juneau Police Department.
Schools in Juneau were closed for the third day in a row and the roofs of two commercial buildings in Alaska’s capitol collapsed Tuesday under the weight of continued heavy snow that’s falling on the region.
The Alaska ombudsman released findings in an investigation into an excessive force complaint from 2017, finding that Anchorage correctional officers did use excessive force when they pepper sprayed inmates inside a transport van.
The state has reported more than 3,200 additional COVID-19 infections among Alaska residents over the past three days. Hospitalizations also rose over the weekend.
According to the latest report from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the state gained 932 people from April 2020 to July 2021.
