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A mountaineer skiing down Mount McKinley died after tumbling about 2,000 feet Wednesday through rocks and ice high on the mountain, according to the National Park Service.

There's consternation in Palin Nation. The former Alaska governor surprised many supporters this week when she endorsed Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, a political fixture who would seem to...

During what was supposed to be a routine court hearing Wednesday in a notorious Anchorage murder case, defendant Israel Keyes vaulted over the courtroom railing into the spectator area...

The U.S. Senate has rejected an amendment by Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski that would have required a comprehensive study of genetically engineered salmon before it can be sold to...

Gov. Sean Parnell has signed legislation requiring suicide prevention training for certain teachers, administrators, counselors and specialists in Alaska public schools.

A Fairbanks man has agreed to plead guilty to second-degree murder in a shooting outside Ivory Jack's restaurant.

Anchorage police are asking for help in the search for the thief or thieves who stole a large eagle carving and chain saw from a carver's pickup.

The Justice Department's internal ethics watchdog says two prosecutors in the bungled corruption case against Sen. Ted Stevens engaged in reckless professional misconduct by failing to...

A 17-year-old girl missing from a military academy since Sunday was found safe Thursday morning at a friend's home in South Anchorage, police said.

Louise Murie MacLeod, a Fairbanks-born botanist and member of the Murie family of naturalists who were instrumental in creation of the Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, has...

A Fairbanks man has been sentenced to five months in jail for biting off a chunk of another man's ear.

After nine years of overseeing Anchorage elections and serving as the Assembly's right hand in city government, City Clerk Barbara Gruenstein had just announced her resignation...

The owner of a Palmer-area tourist attraction known as Wolf Country USA has pleaded guilty to a single count of owning and selling wolf hybrids, troopers say.

GCI is sending letters to about 400 customers and urging them to check their accounts for any unusual activity. The letters follow the discovery that a former customer telephone...

The confidential informant who brought down the Fairbanks militia leadership finished his testimony in federal court Wednesday, admitting under oath that his work as a drug-hauling...

The Fairbanks City Council is moving ahead with plans for an emergency shelter for homeless teens.

Anchorage police on Tuesday arrested a Checker Cab driver accused of raping a passenger. Paul Velasco, 28, was charged with sexually assaulting a woman on May 1.

A defense lawyer homed in today on Gerald "J.R." Olson's criminal past, including running drugs for the Hells Angels, in the federal trial of Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox...

One of two Alaska state troopers on the trail of a suspected drunken driver shot a dog at a Nikiski home late Monday after it was let out of a…

A 2-year-old female brown bear that had become dangerously comfortable around humans along the Turnagain Arm Trail was killed Tuesday by an Alaska Department of Fish and Game officer.