Anchorage 'cartel attorney' gets 20-year prison sentence for drug trafficking
An Anchorage attorney who prosecutors say was connected to a deadly Alaska drug trafficking ring was sentenced Tuesday to 20 ...
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Alaska governor candidates spar over bipartisan cooperation, among other issues, in Debate for the State
Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and Republicans Bernadette Wilson, Dave Bronson and Treg Taylor offered their visions for ...
An asylum seeker’s traffic stop, a teenage UAF student’s airport detention: Contested ICE tactics come to Anchorage
House cleaner Daniel Yunsan Acosta says he has no criminal history and is in the United States legally. One week after his ...
How to Watch Alaska High School Football Playoffs: 7 Live Streams, Oct. 9–10
Watch seven Alaska high school football playoff games live Oct. 9–10 on the NFHS Network. Complete ASAA streaming schedule, matchups and times.
New Alaska sea sponge species fuel debate over fishery practices
The vast and largely unexplored seafloor off Alaska’s coastline produces occasional startling discoveries. The latest ...
Alaska’s gubernatorial candidates clash in ‘Debate for the State’
Alaska’s four candidates for governor met Thursday night for the first of three “Debate for the State” broadcasts, live from ...
Former Alaska Attorney Sentenced 20 Years for Trafficking
Former Anchorage defense attorney Justin Facey was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to ...
Trump administration cuts environmental reviews to fast-track Alaska oil exploration
Seismic surveys, well drilling, ice road construction and other wintertime oil exploration activities on federal lands on the ...
State report shows heating fuel prices are at a record high in rural Alaska
Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Dawson, a U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Task Force member, chats with a community representative at a fuel facility in St. Michael in the Bering Strait region during an inspection conducted on July 28, 2022. (Photo by...
Tregarrick Taylor wins the 'promise them anything' trophy
Bernadette Wilson with her Permanent Fund dividend gibberish cannot top this.Even Dave Bronson’s reckless fantasy that we can double Permanent Fund earnings and our financial problems will disappear comes up short.All hail to Tregarrick Taylor, the...
Two Alaska governor candidates advocate lower minimum wage, rollback of sick leave law
Alaska gubernatorial candidates Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (left), and Republicans Bernadette Wilson (center) and Dave Bronson (right) attend a forum hosted by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce in Juneau on October 7, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith...
Time capsule: Hardwood, softwood, fuelwood
Yukie, in chair, and Junie enjoy a warm fire on a cold Fairbanks day in November 2024. Photo by Sara WilburBy Carla HelfferichNote: After finally cleaning my stovepipe last weekend, it feels like woodstove season at my cabin can officially (and safel...
Book banning is a spooky practice
The Egan Library at the University of Southeast Alaska in Juneau is seen on May 7, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)October is a time of witches, goblins, ghosts, and ghouls — and also a time for us to contemplate the ramifications of book...
Trump administration cuts environmental reviews to fast-track Alaska oil exploration
Light from the setting sun on March 21, 2008 is reflected on the surface of an ice road in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Under a new Trump administration rule, new ice roads and other oil-exploration projects in the reserve will no longer...
Voters in midterm elections identify a culprit for rising cost of living: Trump’s tariffs
Voters angry over the rising cost of groceries and other items due to tariffs could be expressing their dissatisfaction in the midterm elections. (Photo by Ming Tang Tung/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — Rebecca Myers lives in one of the nation’s most hotly...
Mechanic retirements could test peninsula’s auto repair options
State forecasts point to staffing pressures as drivers weigh repair costs
Paul Hollywood’s Iced Gems (Tiny British Shortbread Cookies)
If you’ve ever wanted to make something that looks like it came out of a fancy candy shop, these are it! Iced Gems are little Orange Shortbread Cookies, each one about the size of a quarter, with a pastel swirl of royal icing piped on top like...
New Alaska sea sponge species fuel debate over fishery practices
Deep-sea sponges and other invertebrates collected duriing a bottom trawl survey in Alaska are seen in a basked. (Photo provided by NOAA Fisheries)The vast and largely unexplored seafloor off Alaska’s coastline produces occasional startling discoveri...
Guardians rally past White Sox to force decisive Game 5 in ALDS
The Cleveland Guardians defeated the Chicago White Sox 9-5 on Thursday to even their American League Division Series at two games apiece, and force a decisive fifth game. Cleveland overcame an early deficit before delivering a six-run sixth inning th...
MLB proposes shortened 154-game regular season, expanded division series in latest labor talks
Major League Baseball has proposed reducing the regular season from 162 games to 154 beginning in 2029 while expanding the Division Series from best-of-five to best-of-seven as part of its latest collective bargaining proposal to the MLB Players Asso...