Alaska News

An air taxi with eight people aboard made an emergency landing on tundra when the engine failed near Alaska's Bering Sea coast.Passengers told The Anchorage Daily News the Yute Air pilot remained calm on the flight from Bethel to Kipnuk, and the landing Wednesday was so smooth it could have been on a runway.

Picking a fight is a GOP tradition By David Broder WASHINGTON - For Sarah Palin, with her personality and history, to tell Rush Limbaugh that Republicans should welcome primary fights within their own ranks is hardly surprising.

Thousands of starry-eyed children all over the world are writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season, but they'll not likely to get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular effort begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to ...

From 2000 to 2002, employment numbers fell dramatically; then through 2008, fishing jobs stabilized and recovered a bit.

HOMER, Alaska - Few records exist about why barracks for 15 people were built on Sud Island in the Barrens in the 1940s.

David Cheezem, co-owner of Fireside Books in Palmer, said people have been calling to make sure they'll be able to get the former GOP vice presidential candidate's memoir, "Going Rogue." He's opening early with coffee and doughnuts to celebrate the Tuesday release.

In her first television interview promoting her new memoir, Sarah Palin on Monday addressed one of the lingering questions many Alaskans have had since she stepped down as governor this summer: Why? "My state of Alaska was being hampered by my presence there, being shackled behind a governor's desk," Palin told talk show host Oprah Winfrey in an ...

The federal pipeline coordinator of an Alaska natural gas pipeline project announced Monday that she was leaving her position at the request of President Barack Obama.

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn't intend to let the federal government's expanded protection for bears get in the way of the state's continued prosperity.

Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage there was a lot of talk about her distinctive way of talkin', you betcha.

A statewide weatherization program with the potential of reducing energy costs in thousands of Alaskan residences will improve some 1,740 homes in 2009 alone, and Alaska Housing Finance Corp.

The vets are entitled to the medicines but they have been denied in recent months.

An Anchorage jury in April convicted Christopher Erin Rogers Jr. of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder, robbery, assault, vehicle theft and eluding police.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Universal Pictures has agreed to pay $20,000 to the Alaska Press Club to settle complaints about fake news archives used to promote the movie "The Fourth Kind," the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.

A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter crew rescued two more men Thursday after the men became stranded on Douglas Island near Middle Point.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Universal Pictures has agreed to pay $20,000 to the Alaska Press Club to settle complaints about fake news archives used to promote the movie "The Fourth Kind." The Anchorage lawyer who negotiated the settlement for the Fairbanks paper and six other media outlets, John McKay, says the fake ...

The new Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend donation program called "Pick. Click. Give." raised $550,000 this year, but is expected to cost about $900,000 to administer during the program's first three years.

After a long flight from Alaska - by jet - Marshmallow the trumpeter swan had plenty of energy left when she arrived at a private wildlife sanctuary near Lake Stevens.

Democratic party leaders say many residents are thrilled over President Barack Obama's first visit to the Republican-leaning state, though he won't make a public appearance here.

Another gold rush seems to be under way in Alaska. The state's gold production last year - 800,000 ounces - was the highest since 1916.