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• Billions in gas drilling royalties transform lives

  January 27, 2013 11:56 AM

  PITTSBURGH (AP) - Private landowners are reaping billions of dollars in royalties each year from the boom in natural gas drilling, transforming some lives even as the windfall provides only a modest boost to the broader economy. In Pennsylvania royalty payments could top $1.2 billion for 2012, according to an... more »

• FBI: Alaska barista assaulted, dismembered

  December 4, 2012 8:06 PM

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The FBI says an Alaska barista was sexually assaulted and killed the day after she was abducted last February. Suspect Israel Keyes, who died in an apparent suicide this week, told authorities he left the barista's body in a tool shed for two weeks while he... more »

• Alaskan ice tested as possible new energy source

  November 11, 2012 1:49 PM

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Researchers are looking into frozen gas that looks like ice but burns like a candle as a possible future source of energy. U.S. Department of Energy researchers and industry partners are analyzing data from trials on Alaska's North Slope that tested a method of extracting methane... more »

• Shell still optimistic on Arctic offshore drilling

  September 30, 2012 12:09 PM

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The stars lined up - almost - for Shell Oil to drill exploratory wells this year in waters off Alaska's north coast. The Arctic Ocean was on record pace for low sea ice. The Obama administration gave a qualified green light to drilling. Two drill ships... more »

• Colo. School of Mines gets $250,000 for research

  September 2, 2012 3:16 PM

  GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - Colorado School of Mines has received $225,000 to research what could one day be a potential energy source. The money is for research on how to get energy from advanced methane hydrates, which are ice-lattice structures with natural gas locked inside. They can be found in... more »

• Feds expanding state access to immigration data

  July 16, 2012 7:57 PM

  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Federal officials are expanding access to an immigration database so that several states can use it to cleanse voter rolls. The Homeland Security Department first notified Florida officials last week that they could check to see if registered voters are actually noncitizens who should not be... more »

• Anchorage named worst dressed city

  June 1, 2012 6:26 PM

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Anchorage residents are apparently not dressing to impress. That's the upshot of Travel and Leisure Magazine's reader poll, which put the residents of Alaska's largest city as the least stylish in the nation. The magazine ran an online poll asking readers to rank 35 American cities... more »

• Japanese tsunami debris reaches Alaska shores

  April 22, 2012 11:40 AM

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Federal scientists say that a volleyball and soccer ball that washed ashore on an island may be the first pieces of debris to arrive in Alaska from the last year's tsunami in Japan. The Anchorage Daily News reports that the sports balls were spotted by a... more »

• 7-year-old boy tied to Alaska arson fires

  April 8, 2012 11:28 PM

  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - A fire marshal in Alaska's capital city says a 7-year-old boy has admitted setting five arson fires over a little more than four months. Juneau fire marshal Dan Jager tells the Juneau Empire that the boy caused about $1,000 in damages by setting fires in restrooms... more »

• Shell moves another step closer to Alaska drilling

  March 30, 2012 8:25 PM

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Shell Oil is one step closer to drilling offshore from Alaska's northern coasts this summer. The Environmental Protection Agency's appeals board on Friday denied petitions to review the air permit for its drilling ship Kulluk. Federal authorities earlier denied review petitions for Shell's other ship, the... more »

• Alert level raised for remote Alaska volcano

  March 28, 2012 9:18 PM

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The alert level for a remote Alaska volcano has been raised again after scientists found another lava dome has formed in the crater in the last week. The Alaska Volcano Observatory on Wednesday increased the level for Cleveland Volcano, a 5,675-foot peak on uninhabited Chuginadak Island... more »

• Investigator recommends trial in Afghan suicide

  March 12, 2012 8:31 PM

  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - A military investigator is recommending a court-martial for an eighth soldier suspected of involvement in the suicide of a soldier in Afghanistan. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports 35-year-old Staff Sgt. Blaine Dugas of Port Arthur, Texas, is the last of eight Fort Wainwright soldiers recommended for... more »

• Researchers: climate warming causing yellow cedar death

  February 18, 2012 12:20 PM

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A U.S. Forest Service study confirms that climate warming is the culprit in the extensive deaths of valuable yellow cedar trees in southeast Alaska and British Columbia. The trees can live more than 1,000 years and defend themselves against bugs, disease and injury to their bark,... more »

• Crew of seized vessel getting deported

  October 12, 2011 3:33 PM

  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The crew of a vessel that was seized about 2,600 miles southwest of Kodiak after being suspected of illegal fishing is being deported. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice says the 22 crew members are being held at a detention facility outside... more »

• Planes collide over Alaska, 4 dead

  July 31, 2011 7:50 AM

  TRAPPER CREEK, Alaska (AP) - Authorities say four people are dead after two small float planes collided over Alaska. Alaska State trooper spokeswoman Megan Peters says four bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of Saturday's crash. One of the aircraft landed safely after the accident near Trapper Creek, while... more »

• Urn theft victim passes away

  July 27, 2011 7:03 PM

  Burglaries don't usually make the news, but it's what the thieves stole from Bob Herrle that pulled on the heart-strings of the nation. They took the urn that holds the ashes of his late wife Terry. It was almost three months before investigators tracked down the people who stole... more »

• Warning system glitches found after Alaska quake

  June 24, 2011 2:41 PM

  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Glitches are being reported in Alaska's tsunami warning system after Thursday night's 7.3 earthquake in the Aleutian chain. State Department of Homeland Security spokesman Jeremy Zidek says tsunami warning messages via TV and radio were sent late, about the same time the warning was being... more »

• Alaska seeks more time to produce Palin emails

  May 24, 2011 7:04 PM

  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The state of Alaska wants more time to release potentially thousands of emails that Sarah Palin sent and received while she was governor. In January, Attorney General John Burns granted an extension until May 31 with the "unequivocal expectation" that all records that aren't privileged... more »

• Oil flowing again from Alaska

  January 17, 2011 5:09 PM

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Oil is once again flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline after a weekend shutdown to repair a leak at a North Slope pump station. Michelle Egan, spokeswoman for the Alyeska Service Pipeline Co., says oil began flowing Monday morning. She says the goal for the next... more »

• Missing Colorado man found alive in Alaska (Update)

  November 7, 2010 9:01 AM

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A search team has found a 50-year-old Colorado man who went missing on Afognak Island, north of Kodiak. The Coast Guard says Todd Miller was found safe late Saturday afternoon about three miles north of the lodge where he had been staying. Miller reportedly became... more »

• Zipping through town in his radio flyer!

  October 1, 2010 9:47 AM

  An Alaska man is recapturing his youth with an interesting custom made car. Fred Keller turned an old pick up truck into a larger than life radio flyer red wagon. The street legal ride is definitely turing some heads as it wheels down the road. keller says the... more »

• Incumbents struggle for survival in primaries

  August 25, 2010 9:13 AM

  With 98 percent of the election day ballots counted in Alaska's Republican Senate primary, the race is too close to call. Sen. Lisa Murkowski trails newcomer Joe Miller by fewer than 2,000 votes out of more than 91,000 counted. As many as 16,000 absentee votes won't be counted until Aug.... more »

• NTSB releases preliminary report on Alaska crash

  August 25, 2010 8:29 AM

  Federal investigators say the plane carrying former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens had its emergency beacon separate from its mounting bracket when the aircraft crashed into a remote southwest Alaska mountainside earlier this month. The National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report on the Aug. 9 crash also says that the... more »

• NORAD jets to train over California, Alaska, Alberta

  August 18, 2010 8:32 AM

  The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will send planes on training flights over Northern California, northern Alberta and southwestern Alaska on Thursday. NORAD said the planes will practice interception and identification procedures as well as responding to multiple threats. Officials say most residents won't see or hear... more »

• Alaska inmate dies in Colorado prison

  August 17, 2010 8:16 AM

  Alaska corrections officials say an Alaska inmate has died while being held in a private prison in Colorado. The Anchorage Daily News reports the inmate died Sunday at Hudson Correctional Facility. Colorado officials are investigating the death of the 44-year-old man. His identity hasn't been released pending notification... more »

• Sen. Ted Stevens confirmed dead in plane crash

  August 10, 2010 2:28 PM

  A spokesman for the family of Ted Stevens says the former senator has died in a plane crash in Alaska. Mitch Rose tells The Associated Press that the family had been notified that the 86-year-old Stevens was among those killed. Five of the nine people aboard the plane... more »

• Former senator, former NASA chief aboard crashed plane

  August 10, 2010 9:40 AM

  A plane that crashed in Alaska has at least two high-profile passengers aboard. A U.S. government official says former Sen. Ted Stevens is believed to have been aboard the plane. And defense contractor EADS says that one of its executives, former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe was also aboard. ... more »

• 3 killed in national park plane crash

  August 2, 2010 8:09 AM

  Investigators in Alaska say a cargo plane crashed in Denali National Park Sunday. The three people aboard are presumed dead. The National Park Service says the plane was a Fairchild C-123 registered to All West Freight Inc. of Delta Junction, Alaska. The plane crashed into the south-facing slope... more »

• Catch of the Day: Baby bear (Mama's not pleased!)

  July 28, 2010 9:34 AM

  For Alaska homeowners like Dane Havard, who lives on an Anchorage hillside, it's not uncommon to see animals right in the backyard, but Monday Havard was witness to an unusual rescue and he caught it on video. His neighbor helped free a baby black bear that was wrapped up... more »

• Alaska cop uses Taser on black bear

  July 23, 2010 12:53 PM

  An Alaska police officer used his Taser to discourage a small black bear that had gotten into someone's fish fryer. Lt. Dave Parker delivered a 30-second burst of 100,000 volts to scare away the bear from a house. Parker told the Anchorage Daily News the bear flipped on its... more »

• Jet makes emergency landing in Aleutians

  July 13, 2010 8:58 AM

  American Airlines says one of its jets made an emergency landing on an island in Alaska's Aleutians after a fire warning light went off. Company spokesman Tim Smith says Flight 175, en route from Dallas-Fort Worth to Tokyo, landed safely on Shemya Island shortly before 4 p.m. Sunday. It... more »

• Coast Guard investigating copter crash that killed 3

  July 8, 2010 11:42 AM

  Investigators headed to La Push on the Washington coast to begin looking for the cause of a Coast Guard helicopter crash that took the lives of three crewmen and injured the fourth. Coast Guard spokesman Nathan Bradshaw in Seattle says the work will eventually involve recovering the wreckage from... more »

• Coast Guard copter crashes off Washington coast

  July 7, 2010 1:58 PM

  A spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard says one of its helicopters has gone down off the Washington coast, and two crew members are missing. Petty officer Nathan Bradshaw in Seattle says rescue crews are looking for the missing crew off the waters of James Island, near La Push,... more »

• Alaska man attacked by bear while biking to work

  June 15, 2010 4:26 PM

  Maybe this isn't the best story to share as local activists are encouraging people to bike to work. But police in Alaska say a 45-year-old man riding his bicycle to work survived a grizzly bear attack. Anchorage police say Sean Berkey was riding his bike to his office at... more »

• FAA investigates planes close call in Anchorage

  May 28, 2010 11:42 AM

  The FAA is investigating a close call between two jetliners at Alaska's Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. A US Airways passenger jet that was taking off May 21 came within a third of a mile of a Cargolux 747 that was landing on another runway. The US Airways flight... more »

• BP had a key role in the Exxon Valdez disaster

  May 25, 2010 8:54 AM

  Since a busted oil well began spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico a month ago, the catastrophe has constantly been measured against the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. The Alaska spill leaked nearly 11 million gallons of crude, killed countless wildlife and tarnished the owner of the damaged tanker,... more »

• One wildlife refuge, 2,000 abandoned cars

  March 26, 2010 10:12 AM

  When Anchorage had to dispose of several thousand cars and trucks damaged in a powerful 1964 earthquake, it dumped them off a 350-foot bluff near the outskirts of town. The car dumping didn't end there. Over the years, the bluff remained a convenient place to get rid of... more »

• North Pole-South Pole flights test greenhouse gas

  March 25, 2010 1:17 PM

  A plane outfitted to measure greenhouse gases has taken off from Colorado on the first leg of a 24-day mission that will take it back and forth across the Pacific Ocean from the Arctic to the Antarctic. The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder is managing the three-year... more »

• Lance Mackey wins Iditarod 4th time in a row

  March 16, 2010 7:23 PM

  Lance Mackey has won the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race one more time. Mackey crossed the finish line in Nome on Tuesday afternoon to become the only musher in the 38-year history of the Iditarod to win four consecutive races. Mackey was cheered by fans bundled up against... more »

• Teacher found dead; wolves to blame?

  March 13, 2010 11:53 AM

  Villagers in a remote Alaska region are blaming the death of a 32 year-old schoolteacher on wolves after her body was found along on isolated road, though an autopsy completed Thursday was inconclusive. The autopsy concluded that Candice Berner was killed by animals, the Alaska State Troopers said. The... more »

• Dentist fixes injured eagle's broken beak

  February 8, 2010 11:58 AM

  An Alaska dentist has given a bald eagle a unique beak - using a temporary crown, sticky poster putty and yellow highlighter. The bird was found in December with severe damage to its beak, apparently from fishing line that wrapped around it and started cutting into it. Cindy Palmatier at... more »

• Man gets day in jail for throwing taco

  January 23, 2010 11:14 AM

  An Alaska man who hit a Taco Bell manager in the face with a double-decker taco has been sentenced to one day in jail and one year probation. Warren Strickland of Fairbanks must also pay a $100 fine after pleading guilty Tuesday to disorderly conduct. The 31-year-old says he threw... more »

• Exxon tanker loses power at Prince William Sound

  January 18, 2010 1:16 PM

  The Coast Guard in Alaska says two escort tugs were able to control an Exxon tanker that lost power early Sunday while leaving Prince William Sound. Three other tugs then helped pull the tanker Kodiak to safe harbor, and there was no spill. The ship carries more than 25 million... more »

• Palin's book tour to include stop at Fort Hood

  November 20, 2009 10:06 AM

  Sarah Palin's tour to promote her new memoir will include a stop at Fort Hood to benefit the victims of the shooting rampage and their families. An updated schedule for the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and former Alaska governor includes a Dec. 4 visit to the sprawling Texas post... more »