Alaska News

This will be a special 4th of July weekend for the people of Alaska. They are celebrating their 50th 4th of July in statehood.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday that she is stepping down at the end of the month, setting up a potential run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

This year, Alaska overtook Nevada to become the state with the fastest growing population of elderly people.

Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated then Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had become with the manner in which top McCain campaign aides were handling her candidacy.

The Alaskan lawmaker who oversaw the Legislature's Troopergate investigation of Gov.

A pro-Palin Web site has accused Rep. Jay Ramras of a conflict of interest for owning BP stock.

One by one, potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates are fading away or facing challenges.

Alaskans can put away their dust masks and spare air filters, for now, because Mount Redoubt seems to have cooled off since its last major eruption nearly three months ago.

Senator Mark Begich meets with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Individual news stories are posted in the Alaska News category and you can subscribe to APRNa s news feeds via email, podcast and RSS.

U.S. House Representative Don Young has once again filed for re-election. Young stated that the filing was meant to quell rumors that the representative would abstain from running for office again in the pending 2010 election.

The debate over healthcare reform has come to Alaska. Democrats in our state says there needs to be a public, government sponsored healthcare option for everyone.

Several owners of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline are asking a federal appeals court to review a federal order to charge lower rates for pumping oil through the 800-mile line.

The Coast Guard late Friday suspended its search for a container ship crew member who was presumed to have fallen overboard into the North Pacific Ocean.

Alaska native corporations are enjoying dramatic increases in federal contract awards, but the majority of that money is being spent outside Alaska, according to data released on Tuesday by a Senate contracting oversight subcommittee.

Sarah Palin is again responding forcefully to a perceived attack on one of her children, this time attacking an Alaska blogger who edited a picture of her and her baby son, Trig, to replace Trig's face with the image of a conservative Alaska talk show host, Eddie Burke.

A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk crew hoisted two men from a skiff drifting approximately 14 miles south of Amchitka Island at about 9:30 p.m. in the Aleutian Islands Sunday following a 22 hour search by Coast Guard aircrafts.

Linda Wolf seems to know what draws people to the high seas. Her cruise-only travel agency, Cruises Cruises Cruises, has organized voyages for Trekkies, clowns and Beatles fans.

Gov. Sarah Palin has paid more than $8,100 to reimburse Alaska for the costs associated with 19 trips taken with her children.

The ground keeps rattling around Willow. The Alaska Earthquake Information Center reports that an earthquake at 6:27 a.m. Tuesday shook homes and businesses in the Parks Highway community.

Rod Whitehead had doubts of seeing his five children again as he marked 52 hours adrift in an open skiff in the northern Pacific on Father's Day.