Rat Island was once over-run with rats. But with the rats dead and gone after having eaten grain pellets laced with poison, two Alaska Native groups say it's time for…

A man suspected of murdering a Bethel cab driver is in jail, but on charges unrelated to the cabbie's death, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Two of the most aggressive Iditarod critics say two consecutive years without a sled dog death in the event hasn't cooled their objections to the race.

While Kodiak's soil is buried beneath 2 feet of snow, biologists at the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge and the Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District are working to reduce...

The Alaska Railroad Corp. and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough are opposing a court challenge to a new rail line extension.

A bill requiring judges verbally acknowledge the right of victims and courts notify them of delays in proceedings cleared a legislative committee Friday.

Former U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller said it seems unlikely he will mount a challenge against fellow Republican U.S. Rep. Don Young this year.

Mitt Romney has announced his leadership team in Alaska.

Sitka police say the Alaska medical examiner's office has determined that hypothermia caused the death of a 37-year-old man whose body was found outside in December.

A fire has likely destroyed a building at the Trident Seafoods plant on St. Paul Island.

A former assistant attorney general and her union organizer friend are facing criminal charges in an alleged 2010 scam to inflate the number of state employees interested in joining...

Unless more revenue than expected comes in, average middle and high school class sizes in Anchorage public schools will creep upward next school year. And forget about summer school.

Mayor Dan Sullivan, East Anchorage Assemblyman Paul Honeman and four others signed up to run for mayor before the 5 p.m. Friday filing deadline for Anchorage's municipal election, the...

Detectives continue to interview potential witnesses and follow leads in the abduction of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, police say.

The House Judiciary Committee on Friday approved an explicit ban on texting while driving.

The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lower court ruling that the Native corporation Cook Inlet Region Inc. had to pay damages to a former business partner, John Ellsworth,

A bill that guarantees three years of increased funding to Alaska school districts has passed the Alaska Senate with just two senators voting no.

An 11-member Alaska steering committee announced today by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney includes U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell.

Fairbanks searches that uncovered weapons and are said to be central to the FBI case against Schaeffer Cox and two other members of his Peacemakers militia were legal, a judge…

Sitka police say the Alaska medical examiner's office has determined that hypothermia caused the death of a 37-year-old man whose body was found outside in December.

A fire has likely destroyed a building at the Trident Seafoods plant on St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea.

In a meeting room at a Spenard hotel this weekend, Alaskans seeking a medical marijuana card can line up to see an L.A. ophthalmologist in town to evaluate their medical…

Alaska lawmakers including House Speaker Mike Chenault will miss several days of the legislative session next week to make another pitch in Washington, D.C., for oil drilling in the...

Public employees who opt into a traditional pension program as proposed by a Senate bill would have to share in the risk if health care costs rise as projected.

A Holy Cross man has died in a snowmachine crash near the Western Alaska village of Holy Cross.

A federal agency will dredge the entrance to St. Paul Harbor in Kodiak.

The Alaska Bureau of Investigations is now leading the investigation into the death of a Bethel cab driver.

At the front of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dob race pack, GPS tracking problems left mushers and spectators uncertain of who was leading a three-man battle for the four…

A measure that would wipe out some property tax breaks for church-owned housing got its first hearing Thursday before a state legislative committee, but it didn't advance.

An artist known for his work with marine mammal pelts would serve six months in prison for the illegal sale of sea otter parts under a plea agreement filed this…

Dogs in the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race and in other long-distance sled dog races have recently been seen wearing long, cloth tubes -- the mushers call them leggings…

Barista Samantha Koenig's abduction last week sent a shiver through the workers - most of them young and female-who spend their days in Anchorage's coffee shacks.

The Pentagon will take a small step and announce today that women will be formally permitted in crucial and dangerous jobs closer to the front lines, but the new rules…

The Alaska Supreme Court plans to hear oral arguments March 13 in the lawsuit over the state's newly drawn political boundaries.

Freezing rain vexed drivers in parts of Anchorage and Mat-Su late Wednesday and this morning, sending cars into ditches and road crews scrambling to chain up their own sanding trucks.

Alaska state health officials say they are responding to an increase in cases of confirmed and suspected tuberculosis in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region.

A bill that guarantees three years of increased funding to Alaska school districts was cleared Thursday for a floor vote in the Senate.

A state House resolution calls on the federal government to properly plug and reclaim the sites of so-called legacy wells within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

Federal officials said $67.4 million in Indian housing block grants have been awarded to 46 Native villages and tribes in Alaska.

A Holy Cross man has died in a snowmachine crash near the Western Alaska village.

When police entered a Barrow apartment last week on a report of a child not breathing, they found a caregiver smelling of alcohol, two hypothermic and naked children, and a…

An Oregon company will acquire Alaska Ship and Drydock.

The Fairbanks borough is again taking up the problem of air pollution.

A couple that managed Airport Mini Mall and Apartments in Juneau has admitted failing to deposit rent checks.

After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years -- a...

Police say someone killed Judy Mulder, who was found dead Monday in a Midtown apartment, but detectives are not releasing her cause of death.

State attorneys argued before the Alaska Supreme Court on Wednesday that a lower court judge incorrectly interpreted state law on how the Department of Natural Resources terminates...

The state could save $5.3 billion in payments to Alaska's troubled public employees' retirement system by putting $2 billion into a reserve fund now, a legislative fiscal analyst said...

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly is scheduled in two weeks to take up a proposal that would implement an emissions limit for burners as well as creating a system…