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The bills would decrease the unemployment insurance tax rate paid by businesses and change regulations on professional licenses, timber sales and geothermal development.

“I’m selling it for $20, because I figure I should at least get a pizza out of this,” says The Skagway News owner Larry Persily.

From the Bering Sea to the North Slope, a take-and-bake pizza shop in Anchorage is flying pizzas hundreds of miles to the farthest corners of Alaska.

Below-average temperatures in Southeast Alaska have put a freeze on an important transportation link in the region.

State regulators will fine some Alaska Native corporation shareholders over their criticism on social media. That’s because free speech is not protected when it comes to corporate elections.

The ballot initiative would raise the minimum tax and eliminate oil tax credits for Alaska’s largest legacy fields. It would also require oil companies to publicly report their revenues and costs from those fields.

Ketchikan could be among the first cities in Alaska to allow a marijuana cafe with on-site consumption.

Arctic Slope Regional Corp. has long been one of the most aggressive advocates for opening ANWR to oil development.

The company would not say who the buyer is or reveal the timeline for completing the sale of their former cannery and seafood plant.

The training is geared toward those in commercial fishing, tribal organizations or other coastal residents.