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It appeared Rep. Eastman might apologize during a live KTVA interview on Saturday. He spent most of the 12-minute interview reiterating his position and blaming the media for the anger many people are directing at his comments.

Receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his own work on health care, the former president said, “It actually doesn’t take a lot of courage to aid those who are already powerful.”

The Vega String Quartet played for about an hour in the State Office Building’s 8th floor atrium with everything from Beethoven to Haydn to Brahms and even some folk and fiddle tunes.

“I would suspect that it was close enough to Adak that they should have felt it, but it’s probably not big enough to cause damage,” said seismologist Natalia Ruppert. Officials say there is no danger of a tsunami.

Scientists and fishermen have a new tool for looking at annual trawl surveys in the Bering Sea. It will help researchers get a picture of the true impacts of climate change.

A federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, is preparing to hear arguments about the legality of President Trump’s revised travel ban. Immigrant advocates argue it discriminates against Muslims.

Karl Reishus died after a fall during a training exercise at the Hagevig Regional Fire Training Center 25 years ago.

Eaglecrest Ski Area’s next general manager will be David Scanlan. The former Kenai Peninsula business owner has run a community owned ski area in Maine since 2013.

People often turn to public restrooms as a place to get high on opioids. It has led some establishments to close their facilities, while others are training employees to help people who overdose.

The suspect, Reuben Yerkes, turned himself in. He’s a municipal legal assistant with the City and Borough of Sitka, and a former Juneau resident.

Churchill has received an Alaska State Council on the Arts fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship Award for Haida basketry. She studied at the British Museum and relearned the six-strand weave, which she brought back to Alaska.

The Kuskokwim Ice Classic sold 7,381 guesses this year, raising more than $32,000. What doesn’t go to the winner, goes to youth groups around the Delta who worked to sell tickets.

The petitions ask for the recall of Council Members Donna Aderhold, Catriona Reynolds, and David Lewis. They were certified by the city clerk on April 5.

In Missouri, a nonprofit group affiliated with Gov. Eric Greitens published the personal phone number of a lawmaker who criticized the governor’s policies.

The centrist is set to become the youngest president in French history, according to the French Interior Ministry. Sunday marks a big defeat for right-wing Le Pen, who hoped to ride the populist wave.

“I think I know the gospel pretty well,” a White House spokeswoman said after the House passed a health care bill without the official legislative scoring, “and I’d say the CBO is not the gospel.”

At this time last year the nonprofit Alaska Commercial Fishermen’s Memorial in Juneau counted 211 names on the memorial wall. The memorial is meant to honor all of Alaska’s commercial fishermen.

Fish and Game biologist Patrick Jones says the animal most likely floated over from the herd on Nunivak Island.

Polling experts have conducted an autopsy on exactly why so many polls were off in the run-up to the 2016 election. They found that state polls were far off, in part because of late-deciding voters.

President Trump campaigned on fighting the opioid crisis. Now a preliminary White House budget document, obtained by NPR, calls for significant cuts to the office quarterbacking the federal response.