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The House-Senate free conference committee announced a compromise on the education bill Wednesday evening that will provide $100 million a year for local schools in each of the next three years.

Artists rendering courtesy of ML&PThe expansion of ML&P's power plant in northeast Anchorage is expected to be complete in the summer of 2016.The project expanding the 1970â\u20ACTMs-vintage George M. Sullivan Plant 2 will cost roughly $275 million.

Poet Wendy Erd, political commentator Shannyn Moore and community activist-artist Mavis Muller will be the honored guests at an Earth Day reception that begins at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center.

Anchorage police arrested a University of Alaska Anchorage professor on child sexual abuse charges Wednesday morning, according to a police spokeswoman.

The state Legislature is poised to revoke $4.4 million in grant funding for an indoor tennis center in West Anchorage, which would end a controversy that has been unfolding since the money was tucked into last year's capital budget.

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The Coast Guard got a request for help Tuesday evening from troopers who reported the man was in trouble.

The House began taking up amendments Monday. Sunday was supposed to mark the end of the legislative session, but ran long after the House and Senate failed to find agreement on an education plan.

Anchorage police are searching for answers after a local pastor entered his church Monday morning to find a broken screwdriver lying aside an emptied safe.

On Feb. 26, Kim McNett and BjA rn Olson set off on a 36-day, 1,000-mile bicycle adventure to Alaska's Arctic.

PRESS RELEASE: Anchorage, Alaska - CIRI Alaska Tourism Corporation ranked first in the 2014 Best Places To Work in Alaska program, conducted by the Alaska Journal of Commerce.

The outage happened about 4:06 a.m. in the area of 84th Avenue and Lake Otis Parkway, said Sarah Wiggers, spokeswoman for Chugach Electric.

The explosive was attached to a rental car that a customer drove away Monday at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.

Justin Bieber is seeking a delay in his trial currently scheduled to begin next month on Florida charges of driving under the influence, resisting arrest and driving with an expired license.

Eugene David Downey Jr., 42, of Anchorage, faces four counts of passing counterfeit $50 bills at Anchorage-area stores, the U.S. attorney's office said in a news release.

The Senate finally passed the education bill Monday afternoon, little changed from the version on its agenda since last week.

An Anchorage jury on Thursday found the driver in a 2012 hit-and-run collision guilty of failing to render aid to the pedestrian his car hit near Tudor Road and Arctic Boulevard.

An Anchorage Superior Court jury convicted a 62-year-old man Thursday of sexual abusing his 4-year-old granddaughter, according to a statement from the Alaska Department of Law.

Senate Majority Leader John Coghill, R-North Pole, said he thought lawmakers could wrap things up Monday.

The five were called in the trial of 62-year-old James Wells, who's charged with shooting James Hopkins and Richard Belisle .