6.6 magnitude earthquake shakes Aleutian Islands
The earthquake was about 75 miles southwest of the Aleutian community of Adak, the Alaska Earthquake Center said.
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Beer and wine will continue to flow at Arctic Valley Ski Area
The Alaska Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has voted to renew the ski area’s beer and wine license, going against a recommendation by Alaska Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office staff.
Man dies in apparent drowning off south end of Kodiak Island
Alaska State Troopers say Blake Gloria, 47, was in a skiff that overturned.
Shipwreck from only WWII battle in America found off Alaska
Nearly 75 years later, scientists have discovered the stern of the USS Abner Read — which hit a mine left by the Japanese after the Battle of Attu — deep in the Bering Sea.
That little shaker was a 4.3 magnitude earthquake near Talkeetna
The small quake happened just before 9 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center.
Alaska’s crime rate rose 6 percent statewide in 2017, new data show
Violent crime and property crime jumped last year, a trend that the attorney general said goes "hand in hand" with the Alaska opioid epidemic.
Lower Kuskokwim School District uses taxis to transport students
The district doesn't have enough buses for Bethel-area students, so administrators reached a deal with a taxi company to fill the transportation gap.
Public weighs in, but no action yet on plastic bag ban in Anchorage
The Anchorage Assembly ran out of time to hash out the details of a proposed ban on single-use plastic shopping bags.
Rising rivers, a flood warning and more rain to come for Southcentral Alaska
The rising river banks were being driven by rainfall at high elevations, a meteorologist said.
State alerts medical providers to measles case on Alaska-bound cruise
It's unlikely that others will contract the virus, said Alaska's state epidemiologist, but health care providers were being asked to take note of any measles-like symptoms.
State joins Alaska moose hunter in U.S. Supreme Court case — again
The state of Alaska got involved in the federal case against John Sturgeon, whose hovercraft was ordered off Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in 2007.
FBI task force arrests ‘well-known member’ of Hells Angels with 12 pounds of meth
A separate bust in Juneau netted a large amount of meth as well as heroin and cocaine after USPS officials tracked a package to a downtown hotel, authorities say.
1 dead, 3 injured in motorcycle-Jeep collision in Wasilla
Troopers identified the deceased motorcycle passenger as 32-year-old Jayme Donoho, of Wasilla.
Biologists survey invasive crawfish in Kodiak Island lake
A team of biologists is surveying a lake on Kodiak Island for crawfish, an invasive species in Alaska that has been observed in higher frequency over past several years.
Man accused of killing his brother in Fairview shooting turns himself in
Robert P. Steward, 33, died Monday night after his older brother shot and killed him after a fight, police say.
‘Video games’? Pilots wonder how plane thief learned to do aerial acrobatics
Aviation instructors, pilots and safety experts suspect that Richard Russell had some sort of training, whether from a flight-simulator game or some form of lessons.
Police investigate homicide in Anchorage’s Fairview neighborhood
At 7:28 p.m. Monday, police responded to a shooting at a residence on the 1000-block of E. 20th Ave., When they arrived, officers found an adult man dead inside the home.
Missing 74-year-old man found near Southeast Alaska lake
Two people were reported missing over the weekend in different parts of Alaska; one has been found.
Police: Woman in custody after firing shot into the air
No one was hurt by the gun shot, police said.
Anchorage nears vote on plastic bag ban
The ban, which would take effect no sooner than the start of next year, is expected to have sweeping effects for both retailers and consumers.