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• 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 »

• 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 »

• 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 »

• 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 »

• 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 »

• 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 »

• 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 »

• 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 »

• 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 »

• Alaska's Cook Inlet beluga whales in decline

  October 8, 2009 9:03 AM

  A government study found that a group of endangered beluga whales in Alaska is declining, raising concern that bolstered protection for the animals is not coming quickly enough. The downward trend comes after two years where numbers for the Cook Inlet belugas appeared to have stabilized. But now numbers... more »

• Medical jet from Colorado blows tires, aborts takeoff

  September 4, 2009 8:29 AM

  A medical airlift jet blew its tires as it tried to take off from Anchorage's main airport. The Lifeguard Ambulance jet was accelerating down a runway at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport just after noon Wednesday when some of the tires blew. Department of Transportation spokesman Roger Wetherell says the... more »