Associated Press

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has proposed freezing his own salary, along with the salaries of the lieutenant governor, legislators and state department heads. It’s part of a broader bill that would freeze non-union state-worker pay for two years, beginning in July. The bill also would allow the governor to waive any portion of the governor’s…

A sentencing hearing has been canceled for the second day in a row in the case of an Alaska man who was convicted of illegally dumping human waste into a harbor while operating a floating strip club. Darren Byler is now set for sentencing Monday afternoon. He was set to be sentenced in Anchorage this…

The state labor department says Alaska’s unemployment rate ended 2016 at 6.7 percent. That preliminary, seasonally adjusted rate for December compares to 6.8 percent in November. The rate stood at 6.6 percent in December 2015. Nationally, the unemployment rate last month was 4.7 percent.

An Alaska volcano that has been erupting periodically since mid-December has sent up another ash cloud. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says Bogoslof Volcano in the Aleutian lslands erupted at 1:17 p.m. Friday. Pilots report an ash cloud reached 36,000 feet. Ash clouds higher than 20,000 feet are a threat to intercontinental jet aircraft because ash…

Alaska legislators agree on the need to address the state’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit. But rifts remain over how best to do that, with divisions forming over taxes, how much to keep cutting spending and whether the state needs to tinker with Alaskans’ beloved yearly oil wealth check. A new 90-day legislative session begins Tuesday. Many…

A man is facing prosecution in a fatal hit-and-run collision after turning himself into police. The name of the woman who died early Saturday in Anchorage has been withheld pending notification of her next of kin. Authorities responded to a report of a collision and found the woman’s body. Investigators determined a gray Chevrolet Sonic…