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Sealaska shareholders are deciding whether to impose term limits on the corporation’s board. They’re also considering nine candidates for four board seats.

Nathanial Kangas, 22, shot Sergeant Scott Johnson and Trooper Gabe Rich on May 1, 2014, as they tried to arrest his father at the Kangas home in Tanana.

The Alaska senator took an opportunity Saturday to bash President Obama for what he says is poor economic growth, more reliance on food stamps and a drop in homeownership.

No pizzerias or even restaurants exist in the 250-person community in southwest Alaska. So Wednesday morning when 22 fresh pizzas arrived at the school, it was a big deal. But the even bigger deal was the national award winner inside the building.

Approximately 75,000 cubic yards of soil have contaminants that exceed environmental standards.

Our fourth of 10 Folk Fest Red Carpet Concerts is with Harrison B and Tim Pepper. Harrison B defines his sound as progressive American Soul.

The field sits on the coast about 60 miles east of Prudhoe Bay, near the edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. When it’s fully online, it’ll send about 10,000 barrels a day of diesel-like oil down the trans-Alaska pipeline.

In Akiak, Tribal Police Officer Cynthia Ivan has been keeping a call log to compare how alcohol sales in Bethel have increased the amount of emergency calls in her village.

The convention was a first for the teenaged Bernie Sanders supporter. We caught up with her Sunday to see how things went.

Alaska Democrats spent the weekend in Anchorage picking delegates for the party’s national convention in Philadelphia this July, and setting priorities for the year ahead.

Oil industry advocates say the bill would devastate the state’s economy by discouraging investment.

Some legislators have raised the option of closing the state’s budget deficit by spending Permanent Fund earnings.

Overall, the Senate’s capital budget is comparable to the one passed last year. But the portion of that spending plan funded with money state lawmakers’ readily control is very small, historically speaking.

Police say they’ve determined the man’s identity, and believe he lived in Alaska but was not from Juneau.

A mass die-off of at least 40 whales last summer caused the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to declare an “unusual mortality event.” Many of those whales were spotted on or around the Kodiak Archipelago.

The Kwigillingok Child Protection Team was founded about 20 years ago. Tribal members were sick of children being abused and neglected then taken from the village, so they decided to intervene – before the abuse starts.

It’s unclear what fallout on Alaska media will be after a partnership between the state’s largest newspaper and one of the world’s largest wire services has dissolved.

The House passed the amendment that rewrote the bill with the minimum votes required, 21-16.

After a contentious confirmation process, Williams says he’s now focused on re-establishing relationships between the department, employees and communities.

Residents of the Yupiit school district have gone to court to force the state to spend more resources to improve the schools. They have aggressively applied for funds to instruct their children in both the Western educational mode and in their traditional language and culture.