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An exploratory well drilled last year did not find oil in commercial quantities. Shell said high costs and an unpredictable federal regulatory requirement also contributed to the decision to halt drilling off Alaska.

William Eugene Fleming, 22, was indicted for vehicle theft and and failing to stop for an officer.

During this year’s Alaska Folk Festival, we filmed ten bands in a tiny hotel room at the Alaskan Hotel as part of our Red Carpet Concert series. The videos are inspired by NPR’s popular Tiny Desk Concerts. The only criteria for the short concerts are that the music is original, and that it is played on the arts room’s red carpet wherever it may be—at KTOO, in a parking garage or on a beach.

Southeast Alaska’s regional Native corporation is back in the seafood business. Sealaska announced the purchase of a minority share of a Seattle processing plant Monday.

Dillingham police are investigating three cases of elderly residents being robbed or scammed for drug money, and chief Dan Pasquariello believes more have occurred.

Raise your hand if you like kale.

The families are looking for a permanent solution that will cover them and other survivors in the future.

The Department of Energy awarded federal funding to install panels in Kotzebue, Buckland and Deering, but decreasing the region’s dependency on diesel is easier said than done.

Keeping track of the population is difficult in a mountainous terrain covered in forest. Now, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is using DNA studies to help fill in the gaps.

The Atlanta-based Vega String Quartet kicked off the 30th annual Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival’s Brown Bag Concert series Monday. Nearly 200 Juneau students attended the free performance in the State Office Building atrium.

The only criteria for a Red Carpet Concert is that the music is original and that it is played on the arts room’s red carpet — be it in the arts room, a bar, a parking garage, a beach, a mountain top, a moving van, a rooftop or a tiny hotel room.

Terms of the agreement will be disclosed after it is ratified by both the Juneau School Board and membership of the Juneau Education Association.

More than a hundred people gathered Saturday at the Alaska Commercial Fishermen’s Memorial Saturday for the Blessing of the Fleet and to pay tribute to the people whose names are engraved on the memorial.

Walrus also seem to have arrived at their Bering Sea haul outs early this year.

You’ve probably never heard a beluga whistle or a narwhal click. Not many people have. But Michael Mahoney’s students are experts on the bioacoustics of these mammals, after spending hours logging recordings of their sounds from the Chukchi Sea and Northwest Passage.

A new exhibit at the Anchorage Museum is getting visitors, urbanites, and art-lovers to connect to the Arctic in different ways. And the works expand well beyond the gallery walls.

Between releasing his first album and performing across the country, Nicholai has accomplished a lot in the last few years. But with high school graduation fast approaching, he said he’s ready for the next challenge: going to college and making even better music.

Prospects in the industry are dim, and even the billionaire investor, who made his fortune in oil, has turned to alternative energies. Still, the self-described “realist” says they aren’t the answer.

A search and rescue demonstration, fillet competition, tote races, the signing of a new law and more at the 2016 Juneau Maritime Festival

Data collected by Oregon State University researchers shows an unprecedented number of baby starfish, or sea stars, survived the summer and winter of 2015.