Editorial The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s appeal board responded favorably to several conservation groups the last time they filed to stop oil exploration off Alaska’s northern coastli…
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Five young Alaskans have received college scholarship accounts through the University of Alaska College Savings Plan. The giveaway, in its second year, was aimed at encouraging…
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FAIRBANKS — Sandy Johnson, an Alaska artist who makes a living by making and selling earrings and necklaces, lost several months worth of her handiwork while visiting Fairbanks Friday. A blue tub c…
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A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in San Francisco Monday in the case of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil. Kivalina filed suit against Exxon and 23 other oil…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Anchorage police detectives say they believe a murder-suicide was behind the deaths of two people whose bodies were found Monday in a south Anchorage home. In a release, police…
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KODIAK, Alaska – Alaska has another roller derby league. KMXT reports (http://bit.ly/15KdoW) the Rock Island Rollers join the growing ranks of women’s roller derby teams in Alaska. There are alre…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska state officials say the manufacturer of Craisins is recalling the packaged dried cranberries because of possible contamination of small hair-like fragments of metal. The…
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SITKA, Alaska – Sitka’s Totem Square once again has a totem. KCAW reports (http://bit.ly/vHzuwO) a ceremony was held Monday to reinstall the totem after it was removed last year for a seawall re…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Three members of a marine mammal peddling ring were sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage. They were convicted of violating the Lacey Act for illegally buying o…
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There had to be something more I could have done. The Alaska Sports Hall of Fame voting ends tonight and the man I should have cast a vote for had just appeared in view. I saw he and his wife get out of a taxi at Thunder Mountain High School last weekend. He was instantly [...]
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