Anchorage News

A state commission will meet behind closed doors Tuesday in Kenai to decide whether a number of former police officers, troopers and corrections officers should lose their right to wear a badge in Alaska.

Founder of McKinley Capital Management, an investment firm in Anchorage. He has a big family compound on Lake Clark near the proposed Pebble mine and is a relentless, and wealthy, opponent of the project.

Anchorage-based Pebble mine developer. Partners are Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd., a Vancouver, B.C.-based mineral exploration company, and Anglo American, a London-based mining company with operations around the world.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska Native village corporation that operates a popular cruise ship destination has launched a commercial consulting service for others seeking help developing their own cultural tourism ventures.

The unseasonable snowfall Friday and Saturday has set a slew of new records in Anchorage, the National Weather Service says .

Volunteers taking down signs for a charity walk Saturday morning found the body of a 55-year-old man under a Chester Creek bridge near Mulcahy Stadium, according to Anchorage police.

Mary Anne Feeney and Jonathan Brady have portraits made a few hours before their wedding ceremony on Saturday morning, May 18, 2013.

The unseasonable snowfall Friday and Saturday has set a slew of new records in Anchorage, the National Weather Service says.

After 34 years of working at Ketchikan's Gateway Center for Human Services, including 10 years as medical director, Wandal William Winn is calling it a day.

The calendar says it's spring in Alaska, but with lakes still frozen and snow in the forecast for the Anchorage area this weekend, many residents are saying enough is enough.

Joan Naviyuk Kane feels the pull of an ancestral place where she's never been, a crumbling ghost village built on stilts across the rocky face of a remote western Alaska island.

Maryville-based Vanquish Worldwide, has landed a multimillion-dollar contract to store and manage equipment for the Environmental Protection Agency in the northwestern U.S. Vanquish will provide equipment management and warehouse services for emergency and terrorism-response vehicles and equipment in Region 10 of the EPA.

In this photo provided by the Alaskan Volcano Observatory, the Pavlof volcano erupts Thursday.

One of Alaska's most restless volcanoes shot an ash cloud 15,000 feet into the air Friday in an ongoing eruption that is visible for miles.

Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant.

Although the calendar says it's more than a month late, spring is finally upon us.

Executive Chef Erik Slater, of Resurrection Roadhouse Restaurant, Seward Windsong Lodge and Kenai Fjords Wilderness Lodge, has been honored as one of the country's top culinary talents in the inaugural edition of Best Chefs America.

WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE AK 405 PM AKDT THU MAY 16 2013 ...LATE WINTER STORM TO AFFECT AREAS SOUTHEAST OF THE ALASKA RANGE FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY AFTERNOON... .COLD AIR FROM THE NORTH AND PLENTY OF MOISTURE FROM THE GULF OF ALASKA WILL COMBINE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL ALASKA ON FIR DAY.

Josh Holly, of Specialty Excavators, shows Konstantin Reutov, a 16-year-old Kachemak-Selo student, around an excavator on April 30 during the Alaska Construction Career Day at the Soldotna Sports Center in Soldotna.

The National Marine Fisheries Service announced Thursday it will consider listing a population of harbor seals that live in a freshwater Alaska lake as a threatened or endangered species, a decision that could affect the massive Pebble Mine development project.