Anchorage News

Gov. Sean Parnell has appointed a Californian who worked for 18 years in the oil industry to the state board that sets the tax value for oil-industry property despite a law that says board and commission appointees must be registered Alaska voters.

Miller, headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., is the parent company of Cook Inlet Energy LLC, an Alaska oil and gas producer and explorer based in Anchorage.

Rep. Harriet Drummond, D-Anchorage, will miss the next two to three weeks of the legislative session to help her husband recover from heart surgery, her staff said Friday.

If you have competed in the Green River Narrows Race and made it through the turn called "Turn Left or Die," you will find Flatwater Paddling boring.

After two weeks of deliberations, jurors reached a verdict Friday morning on all but one count in the trial for three men involved in a 2011 shooting outside an East Anchorage bar that left two dead and two others injured.

Loughrey, 16, is passionate about the issues facing homeless teens in Anchorage.

Two costly, challenging and controversial road projects are being pushed this year by the Parnell administration, and on Thursday all sides made a quick case before a joint meeting of the House and Senate transportation committees.

Former Iditarod executive director and former Ruby resident Raine Hall shares the five-course meal with Jeff King after he was the first musher to reach the Yukon River checkpoint of Ruby during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Thursday, March 6, 2014.

The U.S. attorney's office in Anchorage says 56-year-old Jon William Munhoven could face up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced June 23 in federal court in Juneau.

The sponsor of the bill, Sen. Fred Dyson, R-Eagle River, said his goal is to get ferry workers in line with the rest of state, the Alaska Public Radio Network reported .

Flowering Canadian Waterweed, or Elodea canadensis, is seen growing in a shallow ditch.

Not far from Anchorage is a place that is rich in wildlife, with an abundance of public lands perfect for quiet recreation and family outings.

That whimsical musical model has led the group, a rotating collective of cellists, to perform work by artists as diverse as Kanye West, Pantera and J.S. Bach.

I was doing some preliminary research into the awkwardly named The Rock Wood-Fired Pizza & Spirits restaurant, and found myself perplexed.

Jeff King waves to fans as he leaves Willow at the beginning of the 42nd Iditarod.

A former state Crime Lab employee was charged Thursday after an investigation by the Alaska State Troopers into the lab's handling of drug samples.

Nineties musical icon Vanilla Ice will perform in Anchorage for the "KFAT Morning Choas 2nd Chance Prom" Saturday, April 12 at the Captain Cook ballroom.

The Municipality of Anchorage is broadening the reach of litigation to include the federal government among the defendants in the ongoing port expansion drama.

Musher Karin Hendrickson cuddles with one of her sled dogs at the Takotna checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Thursday, March 6, 2014.

The discussion came as the panel considered a bill sponsored by Rep. Lynn Gattis, R-Wasilla, that would grant chartering authority to government agencies, education-related nonprofits, and accredited post-secondary institutions.