Anchorage News

Liquor Stores Income Fund has signed a deal to buy 19 liquor stores in Alaska from Brown Jug Inc.

Mayor Mark Begich has appointed a new rural affairs coordinator for the municipality of Anchorage.

A couple of self-described "beer geeks" have passed the six-month point in their year of searching out great beer around the world.

Kubota Engineer distributor Equipment Source Inc., based in Fairbanks, expanded its offices to Anchorage in January, and appointed Ken Pugh and Jeff Johnson as the business' new A Team in Anchorage.

Anchorage Hospitality LLC Building a $20 million 165 room Crowne Plaza in the Mid Town Area, Anchorage July 18, 2008 - -WHAT: A six-floor, 165-room Crowne Plaza hotel -- which will be about 100,000 square feet ...

Former M-I Swaco Alaska manager and Petroleum Club of Anchorage President Craig Bieber hosted a book signing at the club on June 19 for his new novel, "Saylor's Triangle." Bieber was surrounded by family and ...

Nearly four years after Mephibosheth "Moshe" Wilkinson was murdered in Homer, a sentencing date has been set for his accused killer, Leonard Wallace.

Okmok Volcano in the Aleutian Islands quieted some on Sunday, one day after a red-alert was issued and the volcano spit water, debris and gas 25,000 feet into the air.

State wildlife biologists killed 14 wolf pups on the Alaska Peninsula as part of a predator control program to help a struggling caribou herd.

A week after she had an assistant fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, Gov.

Anchorage police are on the hunt for a man who held up a restaurant in south Anchorage Friday night.

A dog perished in a Muldoon home fire this afternoon, according to the Anchorage Fire Department.

A Fairbanks grand jury has indicted a man and woman suspected of breaking into dozens of parked vehicles.

State legislators are talking about hiring a special investigator to dig into the circumstances surrounding Gov.

Seven congressional candidates from across the country visited the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this week.

A proposed trail linking Eagle River High School with Chugach State Park would run through a corridor used by grizzly bears and a state game biologist fears a repeat of a mauling last month if it's built.

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough has signed a memorandum of agreement with the village of Tyonek to provide ferry service between the Cook Inlet village and Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley.

AP Photo: Al Grillo In this Sunday May 21, 2006 file photo, a tour bus leaves the Wilderness Access Center inside the Alaska's Denali National Park.

Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives Greg Goode, of Indiana, right, talks about his visit to Alaska's North Slope and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during a news conference in ...

If rising prices for everything from food to fuel are putting your finances in a funk, perhaps there is some solace to be salvaged just knowing that the cost of living in Alaska rose slower in 2007 than the ...