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The debate over whether Alaska’s distilleries can serve cocktails continues. The Alcohol Control Board reviewed at their meeting Monday  new regulations which would ban mixed drinks — unless you mix them yourself.

Alaska leaders want Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to push Canadian officials to better protect Southeast fisheries from British Columbia mine projects.

The U.S. House on Thursday passed a tax cut package. Like all but 13 Republicans, Alaska Rep. Don Young voted for the bill.

Eagles flocked to the Chilkat River near Haines and Klukwan in great numbers this year. But the number of human visitors coming to see them was way down.

The 52-year-old former district attorney passed away Nov. 11. He continued working as long as he could even though he was diagnosed with colon cancer four years ago.

Three Puerto Rican students came to study at the University of Alaska Southeast this fall in search of an adventure. But their semester abroad turned into a stressful ordeal after Hurricane Maria left them cut off from their families.

Anchorage police Capt. Kevin Vandergriff presented draft policies Wednesday on how police would like to use drones at a meeting of the Assembly’s public safety committee.

State regulators agreed to make permanent a nearly 4 percent electric rate hike enacted by Alaska Electric Light & Power a year ago. But state lawyers were able to wring some concessions out of Juneau’s electric utility in return.

If Gov. Bill Walker signs Senate Bill 54, American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska lawyer Tara Rich expects defense attorneys to file lawsuits almost immediately.

A man in a Halloween mask managed to steal about $3,000 in cash from Bethel’s VFW Bingo Hall.

After years of gravel extraction in the mid-20th century, Sitka’s Indian River has changed. It’s become straighter, and its banks are deep. students and area scientists repeated the study to see just what, if anything, has changed in the Indian River watershed.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said hunting programs in those countries can aid conservation efforts. But those who oppose the policy change point to a decline in Zimbabwe’s elephant population.

The oil leak occurs just a few days before Nebraska state regulators will decide on the fate of TransCanada’s controversial sister project, the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Kodiak’s seaweed industry is growing, partly thanks to the investment of one company. Blue Evolution, which is based in the Lower 48 and turns kelp into pasta products, successfully completed harvest in May with a local fisherman in the City of Kodiak.

Three Alaska Power and Telephone workers were rescued Tuesday after their boat ran aground 6 miles south of Skagway, according to a report from the Alaska State Troopers.

Legislation that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling was approved Wednesday by the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Democrats tried repeatedly kill or weaken the measure, but they failed to stop the advance of the drilling measure.

Anchorage police officers killed a man late Wednesday night after he pointed a handgun at them. The shooting happened after 11 p.m. in the parking lot of a Fred Meyer grocery store in the east Anchorage Muldoon area.

The power generated by the solar panels go directly to the building. They’ll provide around 3 to 7 percent of the building’s power in the summer.

A state program is tackling the opioid epidemic in Alaska, but some worry it could have negative side effects.

Most recyclables in Petersburg go into a single bin at people’s homes. Plastics, aluminum, paper, it’s all picked up by the borough once a week. But glass is different.