Alaska News

A schoolteacher found dead this week near a remote Alaska village was probably killed by wolves, Alaska State Troopers said on Thursday.

We'll know by mid-summer how much money it would take to build a natural gas pipeline to Fairbanks and Anchorage.

Alaska health officials have reported that the state's gonorrhea rates increased by 69% in 2009 after remaining steady for years, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

The body of Candice Berner, 32, was found Monday off the road a mile outside the village of Chignik Bay on the Alaska Peninsula, which is about 474 miles southwest of Anchorage.

Gov. Sean Parnell once again took aim at federal regulations as he spoke at a mining industry conference Wednesday afternoon in Fairbanks.

Senate Minority Leader Con Bunde will not seek re-election. The Anchorage Republican made the announcement Thursday.

Adventure was hallmark of her life, father says By James Halpin and Courtney L. Anderson SLIPPERY ROCK - Authorities Tuesday were in an Alaska Peninsula village investigating whether a 32-year-old teacher from Slippery Rock found dead off a road leading out of town was killed in a wolf attack, according to state and local officials.

We've got two scary Northwest Headlines for you today, pointed out to us by our intrepid Oregonian colleague Lori Tobias.

President Obama plans to boost the effort to develop Alaska's natural gas resources into the executive office of the White House, according to legislators who visited Washington, D.C., to discuss energy issued with other legislators.

The Senate Finance Committee held its first hearing Monday on a constitutional amendment to add 12 seats to Alaska's 60-seat Legislature.

Canadian musher Sebastian Schnuelle is the first to leave the Finger Lake checkpoint -- 106 miles into the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Ninety minutes before Sarah Palin took the stage, a girl with facial piercings bounded into the lobby of the BMO Centre at Calgary's Stampede Park.

For the second year in a row, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game plans to use a helicopter to shoot wolves from the air in the Fortymile region near Tok as part of its predator control program.

Alaska's small communities cannot escape the "nowhere" moniker. Construction is expected to begin this year on a $76 million airport and hovercraft for Akutan, a roadless Aleut island village of about 100 permanent residents and sometimes 900 seasonal workers served by a single nine-passenger seaplane flying a federally subsidized route twice a ...

Businesses exported less product to other countries last year, probably little surprise given the global economy.

The 38th running of "The Last Great Race," known to Outsiders as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, begins Saturday, March 6, with a ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, followed by a formal, competitive start just outside Wasilla.

Fox News Channel may not be Sarah Palin's only foray into television. The former vice presidential candidate has been pitching an idea for a show about Alaska to network executives.

The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska. Like many low-altitude glaciers, it's steadily melting, shrinking two miles over the past 200 years as it tries to strike a new balance with rising temperatures.

The laws being written for corporate disclosure and disclaimers in political campaigning need teeth to be effective, House lawmakers said Tuesday.

Senate President Gary Stevens on Monday proposed allowing nontraditional students to be eligible for the governor's proposed merit scholarship program, a change that state education officials said would drive up costs unpredictably.