Anchorage News

Several years ago, I went to work for the clothing company Patagonia. It was a relatively brief stint but one that made a lasting impression on me.

The chief operating officer of the National Archives and Records Association offered a defense Tuesday for his agency's decision to shutter its Anchorage branch, which he said costs more than $500,000 annually to keep open even as it recorded just 535 visits last year.

A 25-year-old man was in custody Tuesday, accused of robbing two South Anchorage credit unions in a week's time, according to the FBI.

Marquez was convicted of murder last July for the 2012 killing of Carla Webb, who had been shot in the left eye.

Police say the store manager at the Great Alaska Council for Boy Scouts' store in East Anchorage stole more than $27,000 in a series of fraudulent credit card transactions, according to court documents.

Within moments of entering the plane, I smelled the rich aroma of freshly ground coffee.

Anchorage Police responded to the scene of shooting just east of 5th Avenue and Karluk Street on Monday, March 10, 2014.

The victims _ two men and one woman _ were shot about 6 p.m. Monday in a tent in a wooded area beyond a parking lot east of Karluk Street and Fifth Avenue.

Anchorage police responded at 7:09 a.m. to a report of a single-vehicle rollover at Eagle River Road and Prudhoe Bay Avenue, about a mile from the Eagle River Nature Center.

In this 1978 photo, Dick Mackey, right, runs in front of Rick Swenson, left, in a sprint to the Iditarod finish in Nome, Alaska.

A 2006 law established the unborn can be found by a court to be a victim of murder, manslaughter or negligent homicide.

Gov. Sean Parnell, in his State of the State speech in January, proposed several major changes regarding K-12 schools and said he wanted the current session of the Legislature to become the "Education Session."

The Department of Natural Resources will hold its annual Cook Inlet and Alaska Peninsula areawide oil and gas lease sales on Wednesday, May 7. Bid opening will begin at 9 a.m. at the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage.

The city of Anchorage, Alaska has a number of new developments in the pipeline-some of which are located adjacent to residential neighborhoods.

By RACHEL D'ORO Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Four-time champion Jeff King took a razor-thin lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday, trading places with his closest rival by departing a checkpoint one minute earlier on Alaska's wind-scoured western coast.

Anchorage police say six men held a woman and her teenage son at gunpoint while they robbed the family's South Anchorage house Saturday night.

Abortion bills. Immigration and drivers' licenses. School choice. Guns on campuses.

House Finance is set to complete its version of the state operating budget with a floor vote expected later this week.

A mild earthquake shook Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula on Sunday morning. The epicenter was 40 miles beneath Cook Inlet with a preliminary magnitude of 3.7, according to the USGS and the Alaska Earthquake Information Center.

A state-appointed guardian is now making decisions for Bret Bohn, the 27-year-old Wasilla hunting guide at the center of a medical custody battle since he entered Providence Alaska Medical Center in October.