Areal Flood Warning for Juneau County in effect until 12:00 PM AKDT on July 21, 2011 ...

Areal Flood Advisory for Juneau County in effect until 6:00 AM AKDT on July 21, 2011 ...

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Colin Flynn has earned placement on the Dean’s List for the Fall 2010 semester at Gonzaga University as a result of his outstanding academic accomplishments....

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina lawmakers are taking a stand in favor of states’ lights....

TOKYO — Workers have discovered new pools of radioactive water leaking from Japan’s crippled nuclear complex that officials believe are behind soaring levels of radiation spreading to soil and seawater....

JUNEAU — A Republican lawmaker said Monday that he sees no ethical conflict between his serving as a volunteer firefighter and a bill he’s proposing that would give property tax breaks to volunteer firefighters....

JUNEAU — Military members under the age of 21 would be allowed to legally drink and smoke under a bill introduced by an Alaska lawmaker....

JUNEAU — Lawmakers scrutinized Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell’s approach to establishing a health care exchange Monday, with a leader of the powerful Senate Finance Committee questioning whether Parnell intended to consult with the Legislature on the “major public policy question.”...

With several issues hanging fire with the 2011 Alaska Legislature entering its last few weeks, some legislators are beginning to talk special session....

Coast Guard Electronics System Support Unit Kodiak is scheduled to move to juneau under the newly established ESU Juneau command Friday....

Carl Eady, second from right, and Joan Kitchen, second from left, enjoy a laugh together during their wedding ceremony beneath an ice sculpture of three horses titled “Freedom” on Sunday afternoon at the World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks....

JUNEAU — The House Finance Committee unveiled what is intended to be a more limited version of Gov. Sean Parnell’s plan to cut oil production taxes Monday....

With the 2011 legislative session already three-quarters done, only a single bill has yet passed the Alaska Legislature and been signed into law by Gov. Sean Parnell....

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Steve MacSwain seems to never slow down on the ice....

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ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers say they’ve responded to four standoffs since Thursday and all of them were peacefully resolved....

WASHINGTON — Alaska Airlines and its Horizon Air affiliate said Sunday they have resolved a computer outage that led to the cancellation of 150 flights a day earlier, disrupting travel plans for more than 12,000 passengers....

The 2011 Glacier Valley Rotary Club Outdoor Recreation & Boat Show on Sunday had many fun activities for kids including the Kids Hooked on Fishing Alaska exhibit where children participated in a casting challenge at colorful targets. Capital City Rotaract Club was also on hand making crepes for patr...

JUNEAU — A 36-year-old Juneau man has died nearly two weeks after he reportedly jumped out of a moving truck....

FAIRBANKS — A magistrate in Fairbanks has denied bail for a 44-year-old man accused in the fatal stabbing of another man in what authorities called a case of road rage....

FAIRBANKS — Worries about radiation exposure are part of the reason a North Pole panel has canceled plans to visit its sister city Itadori in Japan this year....

ANCHORAGE — Inupiat Eskimo villagers in the Chukchi Sea village of Kivalina rely on wild animals to survive, but a recent arrival associated with climate warming is causing health concerns....

The state’s fastest fishing moneymaker is on two-hour opening notice beginning today as the Alaska Department of Fish & Game has announced that the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery is approaching harvest quality....

A 22-year-old Juneau man was arrested on one felony and two misdemeanor charges after a car police say he was driving left the North Douglas Highway Sunday morning and plowed into the woods, injuring one of his five passengers....

Juneau Sustainability Commission to meet today...

A bald eagle gives an intense stare while scanning Harris Harbor for activity on Friday morning....

Sunny weather over the weekend made for some hot skiing at Eaglecrest. Local enthusiasts had a good time riding the lifts, basking in the sun at the top, or taking to the air as temperatures hit the “above 50 mark” according to one lift operator. Temperatures are supposed to remain in th...

Maile Toetuu, right, originally from the island of Tonga, leads one of four dances by the Alaska Luau during a break between games at the 65th Annual Juneau Lion’s Club Gold Medal Tournament on Friday at Juneau-Douglas High School. It was the first public performance for many in the 30-member ...

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Hoonah had the looks of a team that had enough of Kake’s Gold Medal reign, but there’s a reason the Tlingit Heat have won five consecutive C Bracket championships....

NEW ORLEANS — Of course Butler erased a late deficit. Of course the Bulldogs hit a clutch 3-pointer late in overtime. Of course they’re going back to the Final Four....

Glacier 10k and 1-mile March 26...

Seven Glacier Swim Club members competed with 1,300 athletes from 165 other teams last week in the 2011 Northwest Age Groups Sectional Championships in Federal Way, Wash., finishing 41st overall....

The shooting percentages were nothing to write home about Saturday but luckily for Hoonah, as the old adage goes, it’s defense that wins championships....

Yakutat ousts Klawock...

Haines was looking forward to getting another shot at Angoon in a rematch of last year’s championship game....

SEATTLE — Clarita Vargas was sent to an Indian boarding school some four decades ago to study her ABCs and learn to blend in with majority culture. She says she instead learned a nightmarish lesson — that children sometimes have no one to protect them from pedophiles....

SITKA — Low water levels at two lakes that power Sitka’s hydroelectric plants are coming at a bad time for the region as the city prepares to burn diesel fuel during a cold snap in late March....

A House district map shows district population number as the Alaska Redistricting Board hears testimony at the Capitol on Friday. A lost in population could mean a loss of one representative for Southeast Alaska....

DALLAS — Alaska Airlines and its Horizon Air affiliate canceled 95 flights Saturday because a computer system used for flight planning failed....

After weeks of Parnell Administration and oil industry claims that lower oil taxes will bring Alaska more oil production, more jobs and more revenue, the Legislature last week heard a devastating rebuttal from an industry insider....

ANCHORAGE — Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan says the city has about $11 million leftover from 2010, some of which could be spent this year....

JUNEAU — The state Senate’s Resources Committee on Friday approved a resolution imploring the federal government not to excessively regulate Alaska’s resources....

ANCHORAGE — State wildlife officials say a six-month effort to remove wolves considered dangerous has succeeded, with 10 of the animals killed in the Anchorage area....

Brad Snead walks past melting ice on the Cook Inlet beach Saturday in Kenai while looking for agates....

ANCHORAGE — The Matanuska-Susitna Borough will receive a federal grant of nearly $1 million to produce high-resolution aerial imagery and elevation data of its coastal management zone....

The Postal Regulatory Commission has released its final advisory opinion this week, stating that the savings in the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) proposal to end Saturday mail delivery may not be as high as the USPS originally observed. The USPS proposed cutting service and making other changes to addr...

The unemployment rate in Juneau and Alaska continues to fall as the economy strengthens, and is continuing to hold solidly below the national level....

HOMER — Two men in their 20s have been arrested and charged with a string of burglaries after police found shoe prints matching their own at the scenes of break-ins in Homer....

In a story appearing in the Empire on March 20 on page C1, it was incorrectly reported that Janice Holst called 911 at her first signs of a stroke. Holst did not call 911, but rather called Bartlett Regional Hospital’s emergency room....

Bryan and Emily Krogstad work on their “Juneau tan” after a full day on the slopes Friday at Eaglecrest....

A grant from U.S. Housing and Urban Development may allow the Alaska Housing Finance Corp. to further build its self-sufficiency program for low-income families in the Southeast....

The Denali Commission will be in Juneau on April 1 as part of its Listening Session’s series. The goal of these Listening Sessions is to engage local and rural partners and people whom the Commission has done business with in the last decade on ways or strategies that will make the Commission ...

First Bank was nationally recognized for its Community Service Award Program during the recent American Bankers Association National Conference for Community Bankers in San Diego The award was in the Encouraging Volunteerism category....

A handful of students spent their spring break on Friday learning about avalanche safety and animal signs at Eaglecrest as part of Discovery Day....

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Kake earned a spot in Saturday’s C Bracket championship game for the sixth straight year with an 81-61 winner’s bracket victory over Juneau Filcom in the 65th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Tournament at Juneau-Douglas High School....

Yakutat held Kake to just 14 second-half points en route to a 57-34 win Thursday in a Masters Bracket elimination game during the 65th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Tournament at Juneau-Douglas High School....

The Hydaburg Haida avenged an opening-round loss to Huna ANB with a loser-out 95-82 win Thursday on the fifth day of the 65th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Tournament at Juneau-Douglas High School....

The action was fast and furious with a title-fight feel Thursday night as Angoon and Haines squared off for a spot in Saturday’s B Bracket championship game....

ANCHORAGE — Authorities say one person has died after a car left the road near Palmer....

JUNEAU — The Alaska House has passed legislation calling for performance reviews of state agencies....

JUNEAU — Money to plan, develop and build an in-state natural gas pipeline would go into a special fund under a bill proposed by House Speaker Mike Chenault....

FAIRBANKS — The U.S. attorney’s office in Alaska says a former Fort Wainwright soldier has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography, including images of violent abuse and of infants and toddlers....

JUNEAU — A junior at Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka has been named to an Alaska panel aimed at preventing suicide....

JUNEAU — A state House committee has approved a bill banning the use of foreign law in state courts....

ANCHORAGE — A man has been shot to death at an apartment in the Mountain View neighborhood of Anchorage....

ANCHORAGE — An Anchorage judge has lowered bail for the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson soldier charged with manslaughter in the death of a friend who shot himself playing Russian roulette....

JUNEAU — An Alaska House committee approved a measure laying out the funding scheme for a tourism-promotion task force on Thursday....

JUNEAU — Gov. Sean Parnell reaffirmed his nomination of a controversial appointee for the judicial council, a day after senators called into question the nominee’s objectivity and residency....

One woman listened as a male professor told her she should not go to graduate school because she would be depriving a man of an opportunity to support his family. Another had to nix her male colleagues’ chivalrous notion of slinging a porta-potti by helicopter to the volcano she was studying. ...

Rep. Carl Gatto, R-Palmer, wants to follow in the footsteps of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-public employee union fight, but other state leaders say they’ve got little interest in taking up that battle in Alaska....

JUNEAU — Gov. Sean Parnell’s plan to cut oil production taxes hit a stumbling block — if not an insurmountable obstacle — on Thursday, with a leading senator predicting it doesn’t have the votes to pass out of committee....

ANCHORAGE — The electricity utility for the city of Anchorage may be buying some power from a proposed wind farm on Fire Island....

Gov. Sean Parnell on Thursday challenged the Legislature to adopt his merit-based scholarship plan, called Alaska Performance Scholarships, despite rural legislators’ concerns that most of its benefits would go to well-funded city schools....

A Juneau man arrested and arraigned on multiple counts stemming from an incident Oct. 26, 2010, where he allegedly entered a local business and threatened people inside with a gun, then later tried to injure them with his pickup truck, entered a guilty plea in Juneau Superior Court in a change of pl...

A Juneau woman arrested with two other defendants and accused of illegal possession and distribution of oxycodone changed her plea from not guilty to guilty in U.S. District Court at the Juneau Federal Building on Thursday....

Congressman Don Young stopped by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce Thursday to address issues he sees that are affecting the state’s ways of doing business, as well as those of the country....

Criticisms have flooded the blogs on stories concerning Reina Stone, a 2-year-old beaten by an adult on May 13, 2010. The remarks had become so hateful toward the mother of the young girl that the comment option on the Juneau Empire web site was taken down on those articles....

Vietnam War Veteran Tim Moore with the local chapter of Veterans for Peace hands a flier to Crystal Rogers on Wednesday in front of the Capitol. The flier, put out by the groups Veterans for Peace and Juneau People for Peace and Justice, starting Tuesday points out the inconsistency of the President...

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The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly will hold a special meeting on Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the Assembly Chambers for the purposes of discussing State of Alaska Redistricting. For additional information, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 586-5278 or via email at City_Clerk@ci.juneau.a...

The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly on Thursday agreed upon a set of seven standards it wants to see developed in drafting a proposal to the Alaska Redistricting Board....

A pair of mature bald eagles perch on top of the downtown Juneau Public Library on Thursday....

Gov. Sean Parnell invites the public to attend the Alaskans Choose Respect March coming up on March 31. This event is a statewide effort to raise awareness and end the epidemic of domestic violence and sexual assault in Alaska and shift towards honor and respect for all Alaskans....

Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. announced Wednesday it is recalling cartons and sleeves of cantaloupes available for sale between the March 10 and March 21 because the FDA has established an epidemiological link between the cantaloupes and approximately 12 reported cases of Salmonella Panama. The...

The current budget standoff is threatening the economy in Alaska and the rest of the nation, Sen. Mark Begich told a town hall meeting in Juneau on Wednesday evening....

Thunder Mountain High School junior Sorcha Hazelton and Robina Moyer, right, of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, work the organization’s fourth annual memorial wall to commemorate people who have died from tobacco related diseases. Teens Against Tobacco Use, a program of...

When the Hydaburg Haida start hitting shots from beyond the arc, watch out....

Yakutat rolled to an 82-60 win in Wednesday’s afternoon Masters Bracket contest against Metlakatla, but it wasn’t as easy as the final score suggested....

So much for depth being overrated....

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A military judge has sentenced a U.S. soldier to 24 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy with fellow soldiers that led to the murders of three unarmed Afghan civilians....

JUNEAU — Alaska’s unemployment rate fell slightly, hitting 7.6 percent in February....

Alaska’s ACES oil tax, under attack by Gov. Sean Parnell and the oil industry, is fair, competitive, and why Alaska has a healthy budget surplus, said Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage....

Alaska State Library’s Historical Collections has a new online exhibit to honor the 2011 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which was won in record time by John Baker. Baker, an Inupiaq, drove a team of dogs born and trained on the coast near his hometown of Kotzebue....

A large-scale, multi-agency search and rescue exercise will be in Juneau’s backyard this weekend as Dan Moller Bowl on Douglas Island will be the site of a mock helicopter crash and resulting avalanche....

The current budget standoff is threatening the economy in Alaska and the rest of the nation, Sen. Mark Begich told a town hall meeting in Juneau on Wednesday evening....

The Juneau School District Board of Education gave the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly an overview of its $90 million budget Wednesday. The Assembly was more interested in hearing how the district is going to boost student achievement — especially if another $1 million might have to be cut...

The 2011 Annual Student Gathering of the Future Educators of Alaska will be held April 18-20 in Juneau. Although increasing student involvement and creating greater awareness about the education profession are the primary objectives, the students also benefit by attending motivational and cultural w...

Gov. Sean Parnell invites the public to attend the Alaskans Choose Respect March coming up on March 31. This event is a statewide effort to raise awareness and end the epidemic of domestic violence and sexual assault in Alaska and shift towards honor and respect for all Alaskans....

FAIRBANKS — Five people accused of plotting to kill and kidnap local authorities have pleaded not guilty to state charges....

ANCHORAGE — Alaska searchers say a 45-year-old pilot has been found alive, four days after he took off from Anchorage’s Lake Hood floatplane port without filing a flight plan....

The IRS wants you — and not because you did anything wrong....

JUNEAU — An Alaska lawmaker has proposed a bill tightening punishments and closing legal loopholes for sex trafficking within the state....

JUNEAU — A Transportation Security Administration spokesman says the agency won’t negotiate terms for security at U.S. airports, responding to outrage sparked when an Alaska lawmaker was denied a flight for refusing a full-body pat-down....

JUNEAU — Former U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller is taking over as chairman of a conservative political action committee....

Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell was named chair of the Aerospace States Association yesterday at their annual meeting in Washington, D.C....

JUNEAU — Senate Democrats are reviving an effort to expand a health insurance program for low-income pregnant women and children despite opposition from the governor, who vetoed the same measure last year after learning it paid for abortions....

FAIRBANKS — Organizers of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race are seeking Alaska nominations for the event’s board of directors....

KETCHIKAN — Volunteers have suspended their search for a 35-year-old man missing on a snowboarding trip outside Ketchikan....

JUNEAU — State senators questioned the political leanings of an Alaska Judicial Council nominee during a confirmation hearing on Wednesday....

Thunder Mountain High School junior Sorcha Hazelton and Robina Moyer, right, of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, work the organization’s fourth annual memorial wall to commemorate people who have died from tobacco related diseases. Teens Against Tobacco Use, a program of...

FAIRBANKS — Construction could begin as early as next fall to put a new, 3,400-foot runway in the remote Interior community Manley Hot Springs....

A bail hearing March 14 for the woman arrested on Valentines Day at Juneau International Airport for possession of heroin resulted in a judge giving her a chance at kicking the habit....

Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. announced Wednesday it is recalling cartons and sleeves of cantaloupes available for sale between the March 10 and March 21 because the FDA has established an epidemiological link between the cantaloupes and approximately 12 reported cases of Salmonella Panama. The...

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AT&T’s announcement of acquisition plans for T-Mobile could mean higher speeds in Southeast Alaska....

Klukwan seemed to be in an up-hill battle all game against Shee Atika on Tuesday afternoon at Juneau-Douglas High School....

Angoon sprinted to a 12-3 lead Tuesday to open its C Bracket contest in a loser-out game before cruising to a 94-61 win to eliminate Hydaburg from the 65th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Tournament at Juneau-Douglas High School....

Klukwan came out firing but Klawock didn’t fold....

It was a closer game than Hydaburg would have liked on Tuesday night in B Bracket play of the 65th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Tournament....

The Klukwan Masters took it to a fill-in Metlakatla team on Monday afternoon, but it was a different story Tuesday against Huna in M Bracket action....

While Japan’s nuclear disaster doesn’t appear likely to affect Alaska, the state’s top emergency officials are saying the earthquake that triggered a tsunami and the nuclear emergency highlight the need for ongoing emergency preparedness....

JUNEAU — High energy prices and political turmoil overseas have led to a “much more aggressive” attitude in Washington, D.C., toward developing oil and gas resources at home, U.S. Sen. Mark Begich said Tuesday....

Pearson’s Pond Luxury Inn & Adventure Spa has been awarded a AAA Four Diamond Rating today. The award will be presented today. AAA spokeswoman Tara Hanley said the Four and Five Diamond awards are for lodging establishments that represent the peak of the industry....

Bartlett Regional Hospital will partner with Catholic Community Service through Hospice and Home Care in an effort to keep home care services available in Juneau despite health care reforms....

An Israeli expert spoke in Juneau about what the effects of politically tectonic shifts in the Middle East could mean to the country. Akiva Tor, consul general to the Pacific Northwest Region, has spoken on Israeli issues here before, and a very attentive and inquisitive audience reaching beyond Jun...

ANCHORAGE — A 41-year-old Anchorage man has been indicted on federal charges of falsely claiming American citizenship and falsely applying for a Social Security card....

Icy Strait Point is going into the new cruise season with some new activities and a new logo to represent the destination’s Native heritage....

FAIRBANKS — Alaska State Troopers say a Fairbanks woman and one of her passengers died when their Honda Civic slid on an icy curve and collided head-on with a pickup truck....

ANCHORAGE — State lawmakers are weighing whether to spend millions of dollars to create an Alaska tourist attraction on the Las Vegas strip....

DENALI NATIONAL PARK — Denali Park Road is now open to the Savage River campground....

ANCHORAGE — Members of the Japanese Society of Alaska are hoping to raise money to help victims of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami....

American radiation experts told a state Senate panel yesterday that radiation from Japan’s devastating nuclear power plant meltdown is not expected to pose a threat to the United States, including Alaska, the state closest to the emissions...

ANCHORAGE — At least 32 musk oxen were found frozen in the ice on the northern coast of Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, killed in the aftermath of a tidal surge and flooding from a winter storm blowing in off the Chukchi Sea, the National Park Service said Tuesday....

Former death row inmate Randy Steidl will be meeting with legislators in Juneau on Thursday and Friday as part of the Witness To Innocence project, a group made up and run by exonerated inmates....

Work crews from Trucano Construction and Silverbow Construction lift materials to the top of the Court Plaza Building on Tuesday to replace the heating and ventilation system....

Coeur d’Alene Mines Corp. has announced the appointment of Michael J. Harrison as the company’s Vice President of Business Development....

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Two national chains have investigated possibilities of opening stores in Juneau, but there are no plans as of yet....

Kashi is recalling approximately 2,790 pounds of Kashi Southwest Style Chicken products because the packages may instead contain Kashi Chicken Pasta Pomodoro, a product that contains eggs, that is not declared on the label....

April is Autism Awareness month....

Sen. Mark Begich is inviting Juneau residents to a town hall meeting tonight....

Klukwan and Metlakatla kicked off M Bracket action in the 65th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Tournament on Monday, and it was Klukwan that showed little rust with a 93-60 win at Juneau-Douglas High School....

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bulls are enjoying their best season in more than a decade, and they’re trying not to get too fixated on where all this success might lead....

Yakutat tested the physical limits of the defending B Bracket champion on Monday night, but Angoon’s scoring depth was too much in the end....

Nolan the Colon is coming to Southeast Alaska for the first time this spring. The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium will host “Nolan the Colon” for a tour of Juneau, Haines, Prince of Wales Island and Sitka during March, April and May....

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Southeast Region Emergency Medical Services Council’s board of directors will meet from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 17 and April 18 at the Sitka Fire Department, 209 Lake Street. For questions call executive director Bobbi Leichty, 747-8005....

SITKA — Alaska has a shortage of health care workers and some of the biggest needs are in behavioral health. In 2007, University of Alaska Associate Vice President of Health Karen Perdue, the former Alaska Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner, said Alaska had 1,033 behavioral h...

Alaska legislators are preparing to raise concerns about a new federal “wild lands” designation that is raising concerns across the state, and across party lines....

Alaska’s legislative sessions would be longer in some years, but not until 2014, under a bill passed out of the Senate Finance Committee Monday....

ANCHORAGE — Two longtime friends set out Saturday on a blue-sky afternoon for what they figured would be another unforgettable day of hard skiing in Alaska’s backcountry....

FAIRBANKS — A task force recommended that Fairbanks stop adding fluoride to its public water supply, which the city has been doing for a half-century to prevent tooth decay....

April 21 marks the first game of the season for the Thunder Mountain baseball team as it travels to Petersburg to take on the Vikings in its second season as a program. Senior Xavier Dunn, who expects to split time between first base and center field while also logging some innings on the mound, sai...

Roughhouse boxing at Marlintini’s Lounge Friday night occurred while the supermoon was rising, possibly influencing the large number of TKO’s....

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It might be a new year for the 65th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Tournament, but there’s nothing new about the outcome when Kake hits the floor....

WASILLA — Alaska State Troopers say searchers have recovered the body of a skier who went missing after an avalanche at Hatcher Pass....

NOME — The last musher in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has crossed the finish line in Nome on Alaska’s western coast....

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ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers say two Wasilla residents have died in a snowmobile crash in Trapper Creek....

FAIRBANKS — Military officials say an Air Force jet used to track radiation has been temporarily assigned to Eielson Air Force Base in response to the nuclear crisis in Japan....

ANCHORAGE — Alaska officials say radiation monitors show no cause for alarm from the damaged Japanese nuclear reactors....

JERUSALEM — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin visited a Jewish holy site in Jerusalem soon after arriving in Israel Sunday on a trip that has raised speculation she is honing her foreign policy credentials before a run for the U.S. presidency next year....

SEATTLE — A military judge has ruled that a U.S. soldier charged in a conspiracy to murder Afghan civilians for sport can present evidence at his court martial that he tried to blow the whistle on the plot....

JUNEAU — Alaska’s new medium-security Goose Creek Correctional Center, initially billed as a way to save the state money compared to shipping prisoners out of state, is in danger of being mothballed more than a year before it is scheduled to open....

KENAI — In the midst of the crisis in Japan and a natural disaster not foreign to Alaska, Kenai Peninsula Borough officials are collecting donations to send to emergency responders in its sister city of Akita....

Heather Sincic had been in Tokyo about a week and was using a rare moment of downtime to send an email back home to her teenage daughter in Juneau when she felt the tremor. She typed out, “I think there’s an earthquake right now. Have to go,” made sure the message sent and evacuate...

The City and Borough of Juneau will look at issuing $5.7 million in bonds for Gastineau Elementary School at tonight’s meeting....

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Barrow Eskimo Dancers performed Saturday at the Juneau-Douglas High School auditorium. The performance was a Juneau Arts & Humanities Council event....

Juneau-Douglas High School soccer team members Max Smith, left, Max Lyons and Riley Paul shovel snow off the artificial turf Sunday at JDHS. Soccer Coach Gary Lehnhart said he was hoping to practice outside later this week....

ANCHORAGE — With his team trailing by three points in the dying seconds, Jazz King tipped the ball toward the basket....

ANCHORAGE — All signs pointed to a much sweeter result....

ANCHORAGE — It wasn’t easy or pretty, but the Juneau-Douglas boys’ basketball team kept its season alive Friday....

ANCHORAGE — The Juneau-Douglas girls’ basketball team wasted little time eliminating the doubt over a return to the Class 4A state title game....

Environmentally conscious students at Juneau-Douglas High School have successfully implemented a project to urge drivers to stop idling their cars at the school....

When folks believe in their causes, they will work hard to see them through....

Alaska legislators and staff turned out Friday in an effort that crossed both party and gender lines to have their heads shaved....

HOUSTON — The captain of the Houston Police Department says he has collected evidence that the city’s mayor and treasurer have committed felony crimes, and sent the evidence to the FBI....

ANCHORAGE — Two rural Alaska men have been indicted by a federal grand jury on firearms counts, including a man facing first-degree murder charges in state court....

Juneau police arrested a 19-year-old Juneau woman for domestic violence assault Saturday morning, after she allegedly stabbed a man in the back....

ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police say a man has been arrested after his pickup truck slammed into one of the city’s oldest buildings....

VALDEZ — A small earthquake shook the Prince William Sound region of Alaska....

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FAIRBANKS — Schaeffer Cox and a Peacemakers Militia associate allegedly stored a cache of weapons in the Fairbanks Ice Park parking lot and bought inert grenades they thought were live, according to two federal indictments made available Friday....

NEW DELHI — U.S. politician Sarah Palin stressed the importance of America’s ties with India, saying they were based on the shared values of freedom and free-market capitalism, while sounding a warning note on China’s rise during a speech Saturday in New Delhi....

JUNEAU — Unions and municipalities have come to a compromise on a bill to raise the limit for prevailing wages in public contracts....

JUNEAU — In a state where possession of a small amount of marijuana is decriminalized, Steve Stuber conducts a brisk business selling synthetic pot, mostly to oil workers who prefer the substance since it does not show up on drug tests....

Cora Campbell, who once appeared to be Gov. Sean Parnell’s most controversial commissioner appointment, now appears to be headed for easy confirmation....

Shannon Avenson has been selected by the Juneau School District as the new principal for Riverbend Elementary School. Avenson is currently a kindergarten through 12th-grade principal at the Northome (Minn.) School, where she has been for six years....

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Greg Craig, Bob Clauder, Doug Unruh and Dennis Holloway of the Juneau Harbor Master’s office install two floats Friday at the North Douglas Boat Launch. The floats are meant to help boaters using the ramp. The remaining floats at the site will be installed in about two weeks. The floats are ta...

ANCHORAGE — The champs aren’t ready to move over quite yet. Not after the opening round of the ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Basketball State Championships....

NEWARK, N.J. — When the game got tight in the fourth quarter, Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls turned up their defensive pressure. And the streaking New Jersey Nets just couldn’t keep up....

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — A member of the NFL Players Association’s executive committee who retired after a series of concussions thinks the league’s approach to player safety is misguided....

ANCHORAGE — Round 1 of the ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Basketball State Championships hasn’t been kind to the Juneau-Douglas boys’ basketball team in recent years....