Anchorage News

The Alaska State Troopers helped patch up a fishing boat that was taking on water near Dillingham on Friday, authorities said.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A rural Alaska family is torn between feelings of grief and celebration.

Commercial driftnet fishermen -- but not setnet fishermen -- will get a chance Saturday to target Cook Inlet sockeyes, state fishery managers announced Friday evening.

A surge of water released from behind an ice dam flowed through Juneau this week but crested late in the day Friday and had emergency officials breathing a sigh of relief.

A state agency has rejected a complaint that parents who volunteered to spend the last month of the legislative session in Juneau seeking money for schools should have registered as paid lobbyists.

The Rating Outlook is Stable. SECURITY The bonds are backed by net sewer revenues before the enterprise's payments in lieu of taxes .

An Anchorage man and former Alaska Yellow Cab driver accused of sexually assaulting a passenger he'd offered a free ride in August 2011 was found not guilty on Friday following a week-long trial.

The 33-year-old man accused of killing four children and their parents inside a suburban Houston home Wednesday attended an Alaska high school where he was voted prom king and class clown.

Andrew Duncan and Todd Hendrickson of Acme Fence Co. install gates at the ends of the covered breezeway between the 4th Avenue Theatre and First National Bank of Alaska on Thursday.

Jeffrey MacDonald tells of efforts at Christ Church in Anchorage, Alaska, to provide aging members of the community with affordable housing on the parish's property.

"Whatcha wanna eat? Also, do you want to be on Buying Alaska?" read a text message I received on Sunday night from my significant other, Zac.

One's a former Republican legislator who pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy in 2011 as part of the FBI's investigation of Alaska political corruption.

This weekend, Eli, Chris, Geoff and David will do their best to make up for that oversight when they present three shows as a Beatles tribute band called BritBeat.

A couple of Anchorage men hope to parlay this weekend's Fireweed 400 bike race into a two-day road trip that puts an Alaskan spin on planes, trains and automobiles.

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Water encroaches on a horse barn Wedneday July 2, 2014 on Buoy Avenue near the Kalifonsky Meadow Subdivision in Kenai, Alaska.

A 25-year-old Anchorage man was sentenced in federal court Thursday to five years for robbing two South Anchorage banks earlier this year.

Begich brings in $1.3 million in the latest fundraising quarter: Alaska Sen. Mark Begich brought in $1.3 million in the fundraising quarter that ended in June, a slight bump up from the $1.1 million raised during the previous quarter.

Harry W. Need IV has been hired as the director of gift planning for the University of Alaska Foundation.

Blogging and writing about Anchorage area churches has occupied my time for more than six years.

The mounting tide of unaccompanied minors crossing the Southwest U.S. border to flee poverty and violence in Central America might be felt in Alaska through deep cuts to services designed to help newly-arrived refugees start their lives here.