Dozens of Anchorage city executives got big pay boosts earlier this year
Across sixteen departments, 36 executives received raises in excess of the city’s standard 1.5 percent cost-of-living increase.
Colony barn restoration rescues vestiges of vanishing Matanuska farm history
Two hundred northern Midwest families founded the Matanuska Colony in Palmer in 1935. But today, as farms give way to subdivisions, some surviving Colony barns are getting new life.
Want to watch the eclipse in Alaska? Here’s what you need to know.
The weather is not in Alaska's favor.
When dinosaurs ruled Alaska
Paleontologists at work in Denali National Park are finding fossils that could challenge what we know about dinosaurs in the Arctic.
Alaskan who knew more than 200 languages could find the right word
The man who did more than anyone to introduce the world's most successful invented language to English-speaking people lived in Fairbanks for 40 years.
Ben Stevens, former Alaska Senate president once investigated for corruption, ponders bid for governor
The time that’s passed since Stevens was in the Alaska Senate, said a state Republican Party official, gives him an opportunity to reintroduce himself to Alaskans.
In wake of Charlottesville, University of Alaska leaders call for tolerance and inclusion
“We reject the type of violence wrought on the community of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia campus by white supremacists and neo-Nazis," said the UAF chancellor.
Key piece of Alaska Dispatch News bankruptcy case delayed
Approval of a loan to keep the company operating through bankruptcy was unresolved Friday.
Researchers find wreckage of lost WWII warship USS Indianapolis
The cruiser was found almost 3 1/2 miles below the surface of the Philippine Sea 72 years after it was sunk by a Japanese submarine.
Police searching for suspects who they say kidnapped, assaulted and caged an Anchorage man
The victim is in critical condition, according to police, who are also seeking a "person of interest" in the case.
How one Bristol Bay boat’s season turned into a drawn-out nightmare
The owner went broke, the fishermen lost their market, the crew was never paid, and for some 10 days the troubled vessel and crew languished against their will in the Nushagak River.
