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The Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository supports Alaska Native artists locally and statewide, and it just announced the acquisition of a couple of beaded art pieces, including a headdress from an artist in Old Harbor.

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan held a town hall meeting in Anchorage Saturday, one of only a few he’s held on road system since the election of President Trump. Hundreds packed into the Bartlett High School auditorium they were frequently vocal.

Vessel traffic in the Bering Sea is the focus of a new resolution that passed through the Alaska House of Representatives with a vote of 33-6 on May 16.

The Alaska House has passed a bill last week banning wolf harvest on a section of state land bordering Denali National Park. House Bill 105 prohibits wolf hunting and trapping on the park’s northeastern edge, where a few Denali wolves are harvested each year.

House Bill 159 would cut the number of days’ supply of opioid pills in a single prescription.

The Juneau Assembly has appointed a three-member task force to focus on the community’s growing homeless problem.

Witnesses report an explosion and then a frantic effort by concertgoers to flee. Ariana Grande had just finished her show.

More than 100 people, many clad in rain jackets, braved a cool, overcast Saturday morning and gathered in midtown Anchorage’s Cuddy Midtown Park, urging lawmakers to support public education funding.

In an effort to move along stalled port renovations, the Skagway Assembly wants to re-open negotiations with the company that controls much of its waterfront.

Hilcorp operation managers were in Kenai to speak Friday at an Alliance luncheon. Cook Inlet Offshore Operations Manager Stan Golis updated the pro-oil industry group on recent oil and gas leaks.

Over the past several years, fishery managers have placed extremely tight harvest restrictions on king salmon fishing in the Yukon River. The hope is that conservation will lead to larger runs.

After new federal plans were set in motion last year, old growth logging in Alaska’s national forests is on its way out. Still, the feds have to make some timber sales available in the Tongass.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is asking for the public’s help in reporting sightings of mule deer around the Interior.

The former national security adviser is refusing to turn over documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating possible ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.

A year and a half after Cosby was charged with felony counts of sexual assault over a 2004 encounter, which Cosby maintains was consensual, jury selection is to begin Monday in Philadelphia.

Delta Air Lines began seasonal flights to Alaska’s capital city on Friday, according City and Borough of Juneau news release.

An Anchorage man on probation for felony theft was arrested after a high-speed chase near Wasilla. Nicholas Randazzo, 31, drove more than 100 mph as he tried to elude an officer Sunday night, troopers said.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued two kayakers who were near an island off the coast of southern Alaska and became separated as the weather deteriorated. The Guard says in a news release that two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews rescued the kayakers near Chichagof Island Saturday evening. The Guard says…

Twenty-eight of the units have been mounted so far from Ward Cove to Settlers Cove, and two more will be mounted when approved by property owners.

77 percent of the young people in Anchorage who were trafficked for sex were homeless at the time.