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The parents of a 5-year-old who accidentally killed himself Tuesday with a gunshot to the head were in federal court Wednesday. → Read More
Norman Paul was reported missing by family members who said he was last seen in Bethel near the small boat harbor on Aug. 10. Family members at first thought he might have headed to Kipnuk but he wasn’t there either. → Read More
The four newly named Superior Court judges will serve in Bethel, Nome, Dillingham and Kenai. → Read More
It’s the first poaching casualty of a herd that likely won’t be big enough to support a legal hunt for another five to 10 years, a state biologist said. → Read More
It appears that the driver, identified by police as James Joekay Jr., 28, of Napaskiak, lost control on a sharp turn. → Read More
ANIAK – Two mushers in their 30s from the Kuskokwim River village of Aniak live maybe a mile apart by road and keep an eye out for each other during training runs across the tundra and on old mining trails. But mostly, it is a sport they do alone, running ever harder into the frosted wild country. Richie Diehl, 31, and Isaac Underwood, 35, are preparing their own teams for the same big end: the… → Read More
Church members assemble in family homes, in the tiny little church and at the AC grocery store. Everywhere, a boy carries a spinning star. → Read More
The government still is working to bring Australian mining executives to Alaska to face charges but extradition is a slow process. → Read More
A court asserts the community’s ancient name is Ukpeaġvik, for place to hunt snowy owls, not Utqiaġvik, for place to gather wild roots. → Read More
Moose and caribou in particular remain highly valued wild foods for the Athabascan people in a region that includes large swaths of federal land: parts of Denali and Wrangell St. Elias national parks and preserves, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge and scattered Bureau of Land Management parcels. → Read More
The jury foreman said jurors agreed that Philip Morris had misrepresented the risks of smoking, but split 8-4 on whether Benjamin Francis relied on that bad information in smoking Marlboro Lights. → Read More
Benjamin Francis died in 2004 of lung cancer at age 52 after a lifetime of smoking including failed quit attempts. → Read More
“We are the last place where you can vote for president,” said Layton Lockett, Adak's city manager. → Read More
Some Alaska Native artisans could find themselves as collateral damage in a national movement that's trying to stop the harmful trade of elephant ivory. → Read More
The church's national general assembly agreed in June, at the prompting of Alaskans, to issue an apology to all Native Americans abused and mistreated or through church schools and boarding schools or otherwise. → Read More
Travis Cole sang “The People Love You” on Thursday in Fairbanks to open the Alaska Federation of Natives convention. → Read More
Council members did not approve a separate measure that in the meantime would have suspended active enforcement of laws against off-road vehicles on city streets. → Read More
“With this law, you shut me down,” Loni Upshaw, with the Salvation Army in Bethel, tells city panel. → Read More
The U.S. Postal Service designated Togiak as a hub for Quinhagak’s goods in April 2014 to save money. → Read More
The crash that killed two pilots and a passenger was the second fatal incident for Ravn in just over a month and the fourth in three years, all in Southwest Alaska. → Read More