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Gov. Sean Parnell's recently announced initiative to provide post secondary education scholarships to Alaska high school students based on earned grades is a demonstrable commitment to the future of our children and our state.

The Alaska Federation of Natives will debate a subsistence resolution October 24, organizers said.

About 43,000 federal employees in Hawaii, Alaska and the U.S. territories will receive an increase in retirement benefits under the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act.

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The defense funding bill President Obama just signed will do some helpful things for the country as a whole and Alaskans in particular.

Members of the Alaska Native Veterans Association unveiled a statue honoring the Alaska Territorial Guard on Wednesday.

The oil services executive at the center of a federal investigation of corruption in Alaska politics was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison and fined $750,000. Bill Allen, 72, testified on behalf of the government in three cases, including the trial of former U.S. Sen.

That gutsy Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and her no-so-little dog, Mutt, are closer than ever to sleuthing their way off the pages of the Dana Stabenow mystery novels and onto television screens.

In September, federal authorities announced there is reason to believe that diminishing sea ice is endangering the Pacific Walrus.

Last week, the Obama Administration's Justice Department announced it would no longer prosecute users and suppliers of medical marijuana -- as long as they're complying with the law in Alaska and 13 other states where medicinal pot use is legal.

Sarah Palin hit the vice presidential campaign trail last year and touted what Alaska could provide for the rest of America -- a natural gas pipeline to help lead the country to energy independence.

It is time for Alaska to start acting like the owner state that we are and prepare to build a state-owned gas pipeline to Valdez.

The Obama administration is launching a rapid, sweeping review of the way the federal government manages subsistence hunting and fishing in Alaska, Interior Department officials said Friday.

Community Service Patrol officers in Anchorage picked up a man who had passed out.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday the federal government will review subsistence management in Alaska.

Reporting from Seattle - In documents filed this week in Alaska's long-running political corruption investigation, the government's lead witness said he had given thousands of dollars in gifts to "United States Representative A" -- who could only be Republican Rep.

For years Alaska has been the state with the highest sexual assault rate in the country.

The Obama Administration has approved a drilling plan by Shell Oil in the Beaufort Sea - " with conditions.A The federal Minerals Management Service announced on Monday it will let Shell drill two sites in Camden Bay, west of the village of Kaktovik.A The company bought lease sales to the area in 2005 and 2007.

The key witness in the federal government's corruption cases against several Alaska politicians, including former U.S. Sen.

Walking past the onion-domed St. Michael's Cathedral in Sitka this Alaska Day weekend, I was struck by the kaleidoscope of costumes.

Approximately 5,200 people in Alaska lost health insurance coverage in 2009 due to a rise in unemployment, according to a report issued today by the health consumer organization Families USA.

Alaska lawmakers are gearing up to discuss an issue that many other states have wrestled with.

The two Anchorage state senators who chair the Senate Energy Committee have unveiled draft Alaska energy policy and program recommendations.

Is Russia having a case of seller's remorse for letting Alaska go for a pittance? And if so, why did it take so long? It was today in 1867 that Russia formally let Alaska go, peddling its Russian America territory to the underdeveloped United States for $7.2 million to ensure that its rival European power, Great Britain, didn't get it.

It has been 15 years since the state of Alaska first published a list of where convicted sex offenders and child kidnappers live and work.

Some Alaska ports of call have asked the Environmental Protection Agency to rethink - or at least slow down - its plans to impose stricter air quality requirements for cruise ships and other large oceangoing vessels.

Breast cancer awareness month makes many Alaskans think about woman in their lives who have battled the disease.

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics also has bolstered the credibility of Alaskans who worked for decades to instill the concept of public ownership of the state's natural resources.

A state prosecutor who handles child pornography cases wants sexually explicit drawings of children -- even computer-generated cartoons -- to be as illegal as photographs of actual abuse.

The views and vistas of Alaska can, indeed, be breathtaking. "Whenever I leave," Betty Barrick said when I asked why she liked living in Alaska, "I know that whatever I see where I go won't equal what I see when I return." We were in Juneau, Alaska's capital, where she'd come many years ago, and though her words may be a bit effusive, they're ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska As Alaskans are getting ready for the first installment of their PFD checks, some of Alaska's non-profits are also reaping the rewards.

Alaskans are feeling a little richer - at least those who use direct deposit. The Alaska Permanent Fund dividend was deposited Thursday morning into the bank accounts of eligible state residents.

Fall is here with winter on its heels, and though ita TMs still too early to think about the holidays and all the New Years resolutions we always make and break, it is a good time to get a jump on one resolution youa TMve probably made before a ' quitting tobacco.

Insulated cardboard boxes designed for shipping fish are carrying Alaska's first doses of swine flu vaccine to cities and villages.

Lone Methadone Clinic in Anchorage Closes Lori Townsend, APRN a ' Anchorage The only methadone clinic in Anchorage is so overcrowded its turning away pregnant women.

An Environmental Protection Agency stimulus grant of $1.73 million will help the state-owned Alaska Railroad and other transport operations curb diesel emissions.

D id you know that the arrival of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend increases the death rate? That's right, the PFD could be implicated in your premature death later this month.

With H1N1 spreading at a rapid pace in Alaska, the looming date of when a vaccine will be available is creating a sense of urgency now more than ever before.

Alaska has powerful legal arguments in defense of its $50 cruise passenger tax, the state's attorney general told a legislative committee Sept.