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Fishing Report: Late spring leaves us anxious to get fishing

A late spring means a slow start to the Southcentral Alaska fishing season, although there are a few fish being caught offshore and plenty of new regulations to become familiar with.

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ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY

City rejects a proposed referendum that would repeal just-passed labor law

The city has rejected a proposed referendum petition to repeal AO 37, the ordinance passed in March that rewrites city labor law.
STATE NEWS

9-year-old lost in hole and feared dead after snowmachining near Arctic Man

The body of a 9-year-old Fairbanks boy has been recovered from a glacier crevasse. He was snowmachining with relatives near the Arctic Man event Saturday afternoon fell into a hole estimated to be 150 feet deep, Alaska State Troopers said.
LEGISLATURE

Legislature OKs Parnell oil tax cuts that will cost state billions

The Alaska Senate on Sunday approved the oil tax bill that passed the House 13 hours before, sending to Gov. Sean Parnell the measure he sought to reduce the tax bill for Alaska's leading industry.
NATIONAL SPORTS

Official: Boston Marathon bomb suspect in custody

A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Wednesday in a breakthrough that came less than 48 hours after the deadly attack, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said Wednesday.
MAT-SU

2 dead in head-on collision on Parks Hwy.

A crash between two trucks Sunday on the Parks Highway killed both drivers and led authorities to close the road while the wreckage is cleaned up, Alaska State Troopers said.
CRIME

4 charged in alleged kidnap, rape of homeless 17-year-old

Four men are charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Eagle River, where three of them allegedly held her against her will in an apartment for about two days in mid-March.
ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY

Unions seek vote to repeal new Anchorage city labor ordinance

Anchorage union leaders are launching a referendum drive to try to kill the city's just-passed rewrite of the city labor law, a spokesman for a coalition of city unions said Wednesday. Just filing the roughly 7,200 required signatures for the referendum with the city clerk's office in a timely ...
EDUCATION

Ex-Veco executive turns down appointment to Anchorage School Board

A former Veco Corp. executive appointed Saturday to fill a vacant seat on the Anchorage School Board said Sunday he was declining the appointment because of concerns that controversy over his past would harm the district.
POLITICS

Facing national GOP rebuke, Young apologizes for ethnic slur

The national leaders of the Republican Party are condemning Alaska U.S. Rep. Don Young for calling Latino farm workers "wetbacks," a slur that comes at a time when the Republican Party is desperately courting Latino voters.
SPORTS

UAA fires hockey coach Shyiak after 4-25-7 season

UAA said it will immediately launch a nationwide search for a new hockey coach.