Alaska News

A tugboat operator says as much as 6,410 gallons of diesel fuel spilled in Alaska's Prince William Sound when a tugboat ran aground on the same reef as the Exxon Valdez 20 years ago.

It's an Alaskan film, by an Alaskan, starring, Alaskans. Award-winning director and Barrow Native, Andrew MacLean', concludes the hunt for Alaska Natives to star in his next movie, "On the Ice". MacLean wrapped up the last audition Jan.

Some Alaskans got a welcome raise on New Year's Day, when the state's minimum wage went up to $7.75 an hour.

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services report says the number of Alaskans who are overweight or obese has increased about 1 percent a year since 1991.

The Anchorage Museum's admission rates increase Jan. 1. The new rates are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors, college students and members of the military.

A state senator says Alaska oil refineries have been gouging Alaskans at the gas pump for more than a year, reaping profit margins unparalleled to ones in the Lower 48, and he is once again calling for government to step in.

I n the past 40 years, there has been a Native cultural revival in Alaska in art, music, language, oral history and celebrations.

Census Bureau Director Robert Groves has said he will personally fly to Noorvik, 45 miles east of Kotzebue, to get the national census count under way on Jan.

A crippled tugboat that spilled fuel into Alaska's Prince William Sound after hitting the same reef that caused the Exxon Valdez oil disaster 20 years ago has reached port.

Alaska State Troopers are searching for a missing 72-year old Palmer woman. Alaska State Troopers are asking the public for assistance in locating a missing and possibly endangered 72-year-old Palmer woman.

The tug Pathfinder is surrounded by a spill containment boom Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009, in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

"I'm still amazed at what they're doing," said Gerald Kosbruk, president of the tribal government in Perryville on the southern Alaska Peninsula.

"I wouldn't say we were surprised, but we were pleased that the government saw the economical viability of our solution," said Desiree Pfeffer, chief executive of Anchorage-based Sea Lion International, a subsidiary of Sea Lion Corp.

A tugboat struck the same reef as the Exxon Valdez tanker 20 years ago, spilling diesel into Alaska's Prince William Sound and creating a three-mile-long slick, the US Coast Guard said on Friday.

Alaska's economy is slowly downshifting. Some of this is being driven by real reductions in dollars coming into Alaska -- fewer tourists, fewer oil wells being drilled, lower payments to fish harvesters this year -- but some of the slowdown is also being driven by psychology -- weak consumer confidence, and more caution by investors and borrowers.

Glaciers along the Gulf of Alaska are enriching stream and near shore marine ecosystems from a surprising source -- ancient carbon contained in glacial runoff, researchers from four universities and the U.S. Forest Service report in the December 24, 2009, issue of the journal Nature *. In spring 2008, Eran Hood, associate professor of hydrology ...

The holidays are normally a dead period for staffers in a U.S. Senate office, thanks to constituents distracted by festivities back home.

The mother of the man who fathered former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's grandson is set to serve out most of her three-year drug sentence under home confinement.

In an effort to combat one of the nation's deadliest preventable crimes, the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities' Alaska Highway Safety Office is joining forces with the Alaska State Troopers and local law enforcement agencies to crack down on drunk drivers during the holidays.

An Alaska Native village joined in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that aims to protect some of the Tongass National Forest's remaining stands of old growth trees.