Alaska News

Prompting a feeling of deja vu, Joe Miller is running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Lisa Murkowski. This time, though, Murkowski won her primary and has the Republican Party backing, and Miller is running as the Libertarian Party candidate.

Homer Police arrested a man in connection with a three-year-old murder case Oct. 16. Lee John Henry, 55, has been charged with murdering Mark Matthews on July 28, 2013 near the Poopdeck Trail.

Alice Moxie, 26, and Dick Itulmulria, 50, both flown to Dillingham for medical care after accidents caused by drinking and driving, troopers say.

Jim Bob Folsom, 30, caught with drugs, guns, and money after probation officer found him using fake penis for scheduled urinalysis.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly passed a resolution on Oct. 11, revising its policy on the invocation that begins each meeting. The new policy places restrictions on who is allowed to give the invocation.

Strong overnight winds hampered firefighters containing a wildfire north of Palmer.

By a margin of six votes, residents of Barrow have voted to change the name of their city back to its Inupiaq name: Utqiagvik.

The Elders and Youth conference, hosted by the First Alaskans Institute, is usually an opportunity for 13- to 18-year-olds to learn about leadership, civic engagement and consensus building alongside their elders.

Uncontested incumbent Democratic Rep. Sam Kito III also had opportunities to weigh in.

Aside from Juneau, “The only place that really has had measurable snow this season has been Barrow with a tenth of an inch so far,” says National Weather Service meteorologist Edward Liske.

During a vigil held for John Hartman, Fairbanks residents bemoaned the convictions of the now exonerated “Fairbanks Four,” and authorities’ failure to solve Hartman’s murder.

Haines Borough officials are taking steps to involve the public in the construction of a new waterfront trail. Some borough residents felt officials didn’t give the public enough opportunity to weigh in on a previous project.

The state is trying to clean up petroleum contamination on lands the federal government ceded to Alaska Native Corporations under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

Juneau authorities closed down part of Mendenhall Loop Road after a three-vehicle collision Saturday. The drivers and passengers were taken to the hospital to treat injuries that weren’t life-threatening.

A CDC report explores the consequences of a spice-use epidemic that swept through Anchorage in 2015. Investigators believe 40 percent of the synthetic drug’s users were homeless and four people died during the epidemic.

U.S. and Canadian lumber stakeholders are at on odds on lumber prices and trade barriers. The two governments can make a deal on Canadian exports, or the U.S. can raise tariffs.

Police also said they no longer need help finding Katherine Milton and Rafael Flores. Detectives met with them Saturday morning and released them.

A boy was apparently struck by a vehicle and sustained serious injuries on Friday. According to a Juneau Police Department news release, multiple 911 calls were reporting a vehicle collision on Glacier Highway near Western Auto about noon on Friday.

Four teens have been indicted for their roles in an Anchorage shooting death last month. The teens are accused of shooting 40-year-old Paula Zorawski on Sept. 22 when she answered the door of her East Anchorage home.

After being chased by Alaska State Troopers in the air and on the ground, a man with two warrants for his arrest has been caught.