Anchorage News

Troopers said a man mauled by a black bear after feeding the bear meat from a church picnic barbecue had been drinking.

An 18-year-old with a learner's permit was texting while driving when he veered into oncoming traffic and nearly caused a head-on crash Monday, according to Alaska State Troopers.

A bus load of cruise ship passengers waited by the side of the Seward Highway for two hours after their driver was arrested for drunken driving, the arresting trooper said Monday.

What is the old clich about chickens coming home to roost? Warnings about unintended consequences were downplayed during the "debate" on Anchorage Ordinance 37, the controversial rewrite of Anchorage's labor laws last spring, and now problems are surfacing.

A Superior Court jury on Monday convicted an Anchorage man of murder in a 2011 killing in a Mountain View apartment.

Mountain View Apartments for seniors and the disabled at 895 West 12th Street, Juneau., is one of several AHFC facilities to go totally smoke free in August.

In things-you-know-you-shouldn't-do-but-do-anyway-and-wind-up-in-the-news news, an Anchorage, Alaska man has been treated and released from a local hospital after he was attacked by a black bear while attending a church picnic at the Eklutna Lake campground.

Each spring, it seems, the air of Alaska is filled with the buzz of mosquitoes and the whines of people declaring that this is undoubtedly the worst bug season they've ever experienced in their umpteen years in the far north.

Anchorage Police Department spokeswoman Dani Myren tells KTUU-TV that officers at 1:24 a.m. responded to reports of shots fired on Victor Road.

Someone reported the gunfire at 1:24 a.m. at the 9600 block of Victor Road, said department spokeswoman Dani Myren.

The sun sets over Westchester Lagoon just before 1 a.m. on Sunday, June 16, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska.

North Muskegon native Chad Brown didn't know what to expect when he attended a job fair at Michigan State University in April of 2012.

A man was mauled by a bear near the Eklutna Lake Campground on Saturday after he threw barbecued meat at the animal, the Alaska State Troopers said Sunday.

A motorhome rolled off the Edgerton Highway on Thursday near Chitina, then caught fire and burned a nearby wooded area, according to Alaska State Troopers.

The biggest fish entered as of 7 p.m. Saturday was 29.01-pounder caught by Joiji Lino, and unless someone lands a lunker in the derby's final hours Sunday, Lino's fish will make history.

The Color Run drew 15,000 participants in Anchorage on Saturday, June 15, 2013, according to organizers.

Among the notices from performing arts groups around the country received here recently, I spotted a familiar name -- Olga Bell.

Josephine Malemute looks through family photographs soaked by the flooding of the Yukon River in Galena, AK.

A man charged with murder in the October shooting death of another man in downtown Anchorage made his first court appearance in the case Saturday.

A suspect still on the loose shot and injured three men outside a downtown Anchorage nightclub in the early morning hours Saturday, police said.