Alaska News

A Talkeetna man is organizing an unusual worldwide conference taking place this weekend in Golden Colorado.

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A federal judge has put off indefinitely former state Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch's corruption trial.

The Air Force has identified four airmen who died Wednesday when a cargo plane crashed during a training mission near Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska.

Share + Jul 30, 2010 7:46 pm US/Eastern ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska Military officials on Friday released the names of the four airmen who were killed when their military cargo plane crashed.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson spent three days visiting with industry representatives and rural communities on her first visit to Alaska from July 26-28. Photo/Andrew Jensen/AJOC U.S. Sen.

Mark Miller, whose environmental clean-up firm has hired nearly 1,500 workers in the Gulf Coast in the past month, takes issue with the term " spillionaire " -- those who are cleaning up from the oil cleanup.

It also would make it a felony for physicians to "knowingly violate" the rule, according to ballot language.

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA -- In the perpetual daylight of Alaskan summer, Sen. Lisa Murkowski spotted Rich Doran tying one of her campaign signs to a tree on the bank of the Chena River.

'So how you be?' Doran greeted her, as she climbed a grassy slope.

'I be fine,' Murkowski said, admiring the sign. 'Got good friends supporting me.'

'Between your dad and you,' responded the craggy-faced Doran, who was wearing campaign buttons boosting both Murkowskis and former Republican senator Ted Stevens, 'I've probably built over 1,000 yard signs that say Murkowski on them.'

LeiLani Steddum models her Miss Alaska Preteen sash. Steddum travels to California this fall to compete on the national level.

Barrow dancers Timothy Richards Jr., right, and Joe Sage, left, perform a story in dance about the yellow-billed loon.

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Alaska has one of the highest incidences of brain injuries in the nation - " more than 10,000 Alaskans live with a life-long disability resulting from a brain injury.

Blogroll Archives Posted on: July 29, 2010 11:03 AM, by Ed Brayton Monday was the one-year anniversary of the day that Sarah Palin cut and ran from her job as Alaska's governor -- or if you're congenitally insane, the day "the lower 48 needed her and she heeded the call." You might recall that during her resignation speech she declared that ...

Quick, somebody turn the telescope around for politicians and bankers looking at Alaska's economy.

Note: This month's CLE, " The Price of Oil ," is Wednesday, Aug. 18. The legal repercussions from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are spreading quickly.

A military cargo plane on a training run crashed Wednesday at an Air Force base near downtown Anchorage, but there was no immediate word on casualties, the Air Force said.

A willow rose, formed by an insect. From the more-you-look-the-more-you-see file, I present the willow rose.

Traveling from to Seattle or elsewhere in the Lower 48 for medical care has long been a necessary hardship for Alaskans, but visiting Anchorage can also be a burden.

The Alaska Cruise Association has donated a fluorescent bulb recycling system to the community of Juneau.