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Byline: BECKY BOHRER; ASSOCIATED PRESS Sheriff's deputies in Washington's Kitsap County frequently get calls about animals - loose livestock, problem dogs. But the 911 call they received recently from a [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there’s no relying on DoorDash to have https://apnews.com/projects/thanksgiving-dinner-inflation-groceries-buying-power/ — or any dinner — delivered. But some residents living well off [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-issue-positions-worlds-apart-3f80a342c790da64e3de92a4f5760991 during his campaign to expand oil drilling in the U.S., which is good news for political leaders in Alaska, where oil is [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska voters were deciding https://apnews.com/article/alaska-decision-notes-president-house-ranked-choice-b80a484197301f99fb19233b5f771f69 for the state's only U.S. House seat that could help decide control of that chamber. They were also deciding whether to [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alannah Hurley still gets choked up recalling Democrat Mary Peltola’s election to Alaska’s only U.S. House seat in 2022. Hurley, like Peltola, is Yup’ik and called [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola of Alaska and her main rival for the state's only House seat, Republican Nick Begich, faced off in a wide-ranging debate [...]

Sheriff's deputies in Washington's Kitsap County frequently get calls about animals — loose livestock, problem dogs. But the 911 call they received recently from a woman being hounded by dozens [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — On an island of windswept tundra in the Bering Sea, hundreds of miles from mainland Alaska, a resident sitting outside their home saw — well, did [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A man who is serving a 20-year prison sentence can remain on Alaska’s ranked choice general election ballot in the race for the state’s only U.S. [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska judge struck down Wednesday a decades-old state law that restricted who could perform abortions in the state. The decision comes out of a 2019 [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two candidates who combined received just over 1% of the vote in Alaska's U.S. House primary last week can advance to November's ranked choice general election. [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A landslide cut a path down a steep, thickly forested hillside and crashed into several homes in Ketchikan, killing one person and injuring three in the [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for a measure aimed at repealing the state’s new open primary and ranked choice general election system to [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — In her yard under the blazing sun Wednesday, Debbie Penrose Fischer leafed through a water-logged cookbook with sentimental value that she hoped to salvage but doubted [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An outburst of flooding from a lake dammed by Juneau’s https://apnews.com/article/juneau-tourism-mendenhall-glacier-recedes-281e736286abb62d7cee9c6bb6dc8dc9 damaged at least an estimated 100 homes in what has become a perennial hazard for [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A state court judge on Friday disqualified numerous booklets used to gather signatures for an initiative that aims to repeal Alaska's https://apnews.com/article/elections-alaska-voting-legislature-election-2020-4d6ee788a9aeb92384e4d318050f8c4f and gave elections officials [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An environmental review underpinning https://apnews.com/article/business-alaska-lawsuits-climate-and-environment-fa2377d7a6169594a4a9768b750b0765 in Alaska failed to properly analyze the potential impacts on endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales, a federal judge has ruled in [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A climber from Malaysia who was stranded for three days near the top of North America's tallest mountain following a summit push was rescued Friday, but [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres (5.3 million hectares) of a federal petroleum reserve in [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Cory Hughes moved to a remote Alaska village to teach and would happily stay and retire there if he could afford to — despite the dark [...]

Federal officials on Saturday ordered the https://apnews.com/article/boeing-max-emergency-landing-alaska-airlines-79bc1ea98ee7fbc6edf46aff9319775b of some Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners until they are inspected after an Alaska Airlines plane suffered a blowout that left a gaping [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Searchers with heat-sensing drones and a cadaver-dog kept up the search Wednesday for three people missing in a landslide that barreled down a mountain and slammed [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday upheld the Biden administration’s approval of the massive Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska’s remote North Slope, a decision that environmental groups [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's push to become a bigger player in the clean energy market is in the spotlight this week at a conference convened by its Republican governor, [...]

Several scaleless fish with fanged jaws and huge eyes that can be found more than a mile deep in the ocean have washed up along a roughly 200-mile (322-kilometer) stretch [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Army on Friday said that it has grounded non-critical aviation flight units for training after deadly helicopter crashes in Alaska and Kentucky killed 12 [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's Republican U.S. senators and several Alaska Native leaders on Tuesday urged the federal government to approve a major oil project on the petroleum-rich North Slope, [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration released a long-awaited study Wednesday that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska's North Slope that supporters say could boost U.S. energy [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal agency said Wednesday it is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country's largest national forest in southeast Alaska, the latest move in [...]

Byline: BECKY BOHRER; ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin leads in early results from Saturday's special primary for the state's only U.S. House seat, as voters [...]

Byline: MARK THIESSEN, BECKY BOHRER, ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, ALA. -- Lead A federal judge on Wednesday threw out Trump administration approvals for a large planned oil project on Alaska's North [...]

Byline: BECKY BOHRER, ASSOCIATED PRESS HYDER, ALASKA -- Lead Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has offered COVID-19 vaccines to residents of the small British Columbia town of Stewart, with hopes it [...]

Byline: Becky Bohrer, ASSOCIATED PRESS Alaska's state health department is floating the idea of providing coronavirus vaccinations to travelers at the state's busiest airports with the summer tourism and fishing [...]

The article delves into the challenges faced by U.S. lawmakers in regulating artificial intelligence (AI) to address bias in decision-making processes, highlighting debates surrounding transparency, legal recourse, and accountability measures.

Byline: BECKY BOHRER Tweets in which Alaska Senate hopeful Joe Miller sounded confident in his chances of winning have been removed from his Twitter feed. Statements from Miller's Twitter feed [...]

NEW ORLEANS Millions fled the Gulf Coast in fear of Hurricane Gustav, billed as the apocalyptic 'mother of all storms.' It didn't deliver. Now, with three other storms lining up [...]

NEW ORLEANS With a historic evacuation of 1.9 million people from the Louisiana coast complete, gun-toting police and National Guardsmen stood watch as rain started to fall on this city's [...]

NEW ORLEANS Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans on Saturday, directing residents of a city still recovering from the devastation left behind three years ago from [...]

NEW ORLEANS Police with bullhorns plan to go street to street this weekend with a tough message about getting out ahead of Hurricane Gustav: This time there will be no [...]

NEW ORLEANS With Gustav approaching hurricane strength and showing no signs of veering off a track to slam into the Gulf Coast, authorities across the region began laying the groundwork [...]

Byline: BECKY BOHRER; Associated Press NEW ORLEANS -- With tropical storm Gustav approaching hurricane strength and showing no signs of veering off a track to slam into the Gulf Coast, [...]