Vote Yes on Proposition One Supporters Handily Win Debate
A standing room only crowd watched Senator Bill Wielechowski and long-time Alaska economist Gregg Erickson easily win the oil tax debate…
Mallott Proposes Long-Term ‘Campaign’ on Long-Term Care
Byron Mallott, candidate for governor, Thursday called for a public-private partnership to help keep seniors and Alaskans with disabilities in…
Hubble Finds Three Surprisingly Dry Exoplanets
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have gone looking for water vapor in the atmospheres of three planets orbiting stars…
Tracks across Greenland Ice, 60 years Apart
On top of an ice body more than two miles thick, Chris Polashenski last summer hoped to find a candy…
North Pole Man Arrested after Passing out Behind Wheel
On Wednesday at 7:33 pm, troopers contacted a vehicle at a road construction zone. The driver, North Pole resident, 28-year-old…
Sight-Seeing Train Derails North of Skagway
Early Wednesday afternoon, a 15-passenger car train de-railed at Milepost 20, northeast of Skagway with 360 passengers aboard. The derailment…
France Criticized for Warships Contract with Moscow
PARIS —France’s contract to sell a pair of Mistral aircraft carriers to Moscow has come under fire in recent months,…
Medal of Honor Recipient Joins Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes
WASHINGTON – A former paratrooper who received the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama Monday for acts of valor…
Coast Guard Medevacs Mariner near Kodiak, Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a mariner from a cargo ship in…
NOAA, Scientists Study Acidification in Prince William Sound
Scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, the University of Alaska and the Alaska Ocean Observing System are teaming…