The most expensive campaign in Alaska's 2012 primary election is over and with most of the vote in, and the Coastal Zone measure has gone down in flames only gathering one third of the popular vote.
In a 4 to 2 vote, the Homer City Council banned the businesses in the city from giving out disposable plastic bags to their customers if they are less than 2.25 millimeters thick.
More information is coming out from a double murder that took place in December of last year, where a freshly discharged soldier and his wife were brutally murdered on the outskirts of the sprawling Fort Stewart complex.
The first fatal mauling of a person by a grizzly occurred in the Denali National Park on Friday.