Anchorage News

Anchorage company enters into contract for Patterson rig 191; planned well is adjacent to producing West McArthur River oil field Cook Inlet Energy LLC says it has contracted a rig to drill its Sword well adjacent to the company's producing West McArthur River field.

This snapshot of the remote Pavlof volcano -located about 625 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, along the Aleutian Islands-undergoing a massive eruption was captured from the International Space Station on May 18.

An Alaska law enforcement panel has voted to revoke the licenses of former police officers, state troopers and state Department of Corrections workers.

The Alaska Housing Finance Corp. announced this week that 660 of the 1,628 units they own and manage statewide will no longer allow smoking inside as of Aug.

A Kokhanok woman has been indicted in the 2012 death of a man thrown from a four-wheeler she was driving, according to state prosecutors.

The surviving pilot Kevin Earp, of Eagle River, told investigators he did not hear the other pilot on a frequency commonly used in that area, according to an NTSB factual report released this week.

The Alaska Housing Finance Corp. is seeking comments on a plan to ban smoking in more than 600 of its public housing units.

A Georgia woman said she is thankful to be alive after a 20-foot section of a 747 cargo plane's wing fell off before part of it came crashing into her home.

Before the passengers could experience the unique midnight sun experience as a result of the flight's routing, Birkir Holm Icelandair's CEO; Luis Arrega, US Ambassador to Iceland; Alaska Commissioner, Susan Bell; and Bjorn Oli Hauksson CEO of Isavia, cut the celebratory ribbon.

Democratic Sen. Bill Wielechowski's proposal would require a majority vote to allow a House or Senate member with a stated conflict to abstain from voting.

While jurors saw pictures of Devante Jordan's autopsy in an Anchorage courtroom Wednesday, the sound of his mother's sobbing filled the hallway outside.

The Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center board reached within its ranks for a new executive director and has named board member Jim Lavrakas to succeed current director Monte Davis after Davis leaves Homer in mid-August. "Jim is passionate about Homer and we are excited about moving forward with Jim at the helm," board president Pat Melone ... (more)

A fire destroyed the Sugar Shack espresso stand on Lake Otis Parkway near East 47th Avenue early Wednesday morning, the Anchorage Fire Department said.

East of Fairbanks the forested plateau of the upper Tanana River seems to roll on forever toward Canada, unbroken except for rounded hills and one place where ridges of the Alaska Range cut north.

Alaska Pacific University plans to cut the cost of undergraduate tuition by 34 percent, bucking a national trend of rising college costs in a bid to attract more young students to its Anchorage campus.

The 2013 recipients of the First Lady's Volunteer of the Year Awards were chosen by an executive committee of Alaskan community members.

A vessel captain in charge of towing Shell's troubled oil drilling rig, the Kulluk, when it left a Seattle shipyard back in June said Tuesday that the gear was more than strong enough, the crews were qualified and that under the right conditions, a winter transit through the Gulf of Alaska could have been done safely.

The Anchorage Fire Department is asking for help in the investigation of a suspicious May 11 fire at Sunrise Grill & Pancake House.

A former Anchorage police officer illegally used police computers to look up confidential information about a woman he arrested and weeks later had sex with, according to charges filed Monday.

Anchorage police are seeking the public's help in locating Daniel Rosendahl, who they say shot a man in the head April 24 in downtown Eagle River.