Tegan Hanlon covers education and general assignments. She also covered the 2016 and 2017 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Reach her at 907-257-4589 or thanlon@alaskadispatch.com.
More than two decades after she vanished, Erin Gilbert's family is still desperately searching for clues — and is offering a $35,000 reward for information in her disappearance.
About 140 Anchorage high school juniors and seniors have enrolled in the middle college.
Four jars of jelly will pay off a $20 parking ticket.
John Paul Donald Douglas, 37, faces one charge of distributing child pornography and eight charges of possessing child pornography.
Nick Larsen was last seen in McCarthy on Aug. 7 and had plans to backpack alone in the nearby backcountry.
“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.
Wednesday was the first day back at school for Anchorage teachers and 200 of those once laid off returned, including MiCall Sweet.
Classes will start Monday in Clarks Point for the first time since May 2012, when dwindling enrollment forced the Southwest Region School District to shutter the village school.
The small liberal arts college in Anchorage's University-Medical District is surrounded by smoke-free workplaces, including ANTHC and UAA.
ASD is one of 137 K-12 school districts around the country currently under investigation by Office of Civil Rights for Title IX sexual-violence complaints, but it's unclear what specifically was reported.
Biologists hope the hunt will help thin Anchorage's urban bear population.
Superintendent Deena Bishop says the administration will study schools start times this fall and bring recommendations to the School Board in the winter.
