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Inmates raise pigs, cattle and chickens, and farm thousands of pounds of potatoes, tomatoes and other produce each year. But the farm does more than provide food and savings for the state. It helps people turn their lives around.

Harriet Brouillette’s family history is wrought with identity struggles. In a StoryCorps interview from the Haines and Juneau Public Libraries, Brouillette told her son, Ted Hart, about her and her family’s experiences growing up Tlingit.

A POW tribal group has been awarded a federal grant to help gather data used to determine that number.

“If you eat it, wear it, use it, or drive it, it’s on the ship,” said Grace Greene, vice president and general manager for Tote in Alaska.

Jim Wayne Thornhill, 38, if convicted faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years and a potential maximum sentence of 40 years.

Police who responded to reports of a death at Prince’s Paisley Park estate outside of Minneapolis found that the musician had died at age 57.

At the sentencing hearing of former Bethel police officer Aaron Fedolfi on Tuesday, a debate about race and how it may have influenced his case broke out between the survivor’s family and the defense.

Their bill has no single signature issue. It’s a mash-up of ideas from left and right, leaving out the more controversial ones.

Calista Corporation is campaigning to reduce quorum requirements at its annual shareholder meetings to prevent invalidating future meeting votes and wasting corporation money when a quorum isn’t met.

The team can map the shoreline biology because the photographs are shot at an angle, which makes it easier to see cliffs and overhanging vegetation.

Because the state government has a $4 billion deficit, some lawmakers have suggested drawing money from the fund to pay for other state costs.

University of Alaska assistant professor Forest Wagner was leading a five-day mountaineering trip on Mount Emmerich when he encountered the bear.

It’s a coup for Murkowski, the chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, who says she included the policy priorities of 62 senators, Republican and Democrat.

Progress on the state government budget has slowed to a crawl this week, but Gov. Bill Walker remains hopeful the Legislature will reach an agreement on an oil and gas tax bill that’s at the center of budget talks.

The research was conducted by the state Division of the Legislative Audit after a request from Eagle River Sen. Anna MacKinnon. MacKinnon wanted to get to the bottom of assertions that some communities stockpile CPV funds or use them on inappropriate projects.

The updated code would allow the Guard to convene court martials – generally reserved for more severe offenses – and issue non-judicial punishments for lesser infractions.

The remote community relies on air carrier services for everything from milk to medication.

The Coast Guard contingent heard comments from Nome’s Mayor Richard Beneville, City Manager Tom Moran, along with business and nonprofit representatives.

Walker says he wants legislators to keep up the momentum they showed in clearing a backlog of bills as they moved into an extended session Monday where the focus is expected to be on budget- and revenue-related bills.

The Randolph Yost drill-rig came to Homer from Singapore. A Homer environmental group is worried the Yost, now docked in the Homer port, could have brought invasive species into Alaska waters. The group is criticizing the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for not checking the rig before it docked in Kachemak Bay.