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The company needs at least 100 permits before they can start mining, and some of those permits could be granted on Monday as part of a joint record of decision from the Army Corps and the Bureau of Land Management.

The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that some sex offenders convicted outside the state are not required to register in Alaska.

High-ranking military brass visited Alaska as part of the annual pilgrimage by federal officials and cabinet members during the August recess. Though national defense spending is up, different services are facing major recruitment challenges.

Some advocates say it’s largely because of federal policy that some of these villages are so vulnerable to climate change in the first place.

The volume or overall number of 911 calls increased dramatically, as much as 40 percent over the past eight years, a recent study says. Experts say there aren’t enough firefighters and EMTs to respond to simultaneous or overlapping calls for medical emergencies and structures.

Bruce Owens, 63, suffered a fatal gunshot wound Saturday at a Juneau gun range.

Sitka Sound Science Center is hosting researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz who are examining the forests in Sitka Sound.

Spring Creek Correctional Center has a unique legal internal economy. The inmates run a prison store that sells food, hygiene items and clothing. Profits from the store stay inside the facility and are divided up between nine different funds, including one that provides equipment for the hobby shop.

After carrying her calf’s corpse for an unusually long time, a “remarkably frisky” Tahlequah, or J-35, as the orca’s known, was seen Saturday chasing a school of salmon with fellow members of her pod.

Earthquakes are common in the region, but what surprised seismologists about this event was its size.

The lieutenant governor has limited duties under the state constitution: to succeed the governor if necessary, and to oversee initiatives and referendums.

A double-wide mobile home is a total loss after a fire Saturday morning in Switzer Village. The Fire Marshal’s Office said the fire likely started near the front door, but did not know the cause.

National Park Service says recovering the five deceased aboard a flightseeing plane that crashed Aug. 4 in Denali National Park and Preserve and removal of the aircraft exceed an acceptable level of risk and will not be attempted.

Department of the Interior officials have traveled across the state to talk with tribes in a series of consultations this summer to reconsider land-trust rules in Alaska. Several people attended a consultation Friday afternoon at the Ketchikan Public Library.

Two Alaska residents and an out-of-state visitor could face charges after they entered a closed area to Katmai National Park and approached brown bears feeding on salmon.

Between 2014 and 2017, Washington’s Medicaid program sent 16 brain-injured patients to Oklahoma. In each case, the patient flew by air ambulance at a cost of $230,000 per flight.

Last year, only about a third of kindergarten students in Juneau showed up to the first day of school ready to learn.

There are now four declared candidates for two District 2 seats on the Juneau Assembly. Candidates for District 2 must live in the Mendenhall Valley and points north.

After their breakout set at this year’s Alaska Folk Festival in Juneau, Seattle by-way-of Southeast Alaska band Amish Robots have changed their name to Revilla and released a new EP.

Marijuana and hemp are technically the same plant: cannabis sativa.  The main difference is that hemp contains only trace amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive drug in marijuana that gets you high. So it’s surprising that while Alaska’s recreational marijuana industry has bloomed, growing hemp remains illegal. Rob Carter, the head of a new industrial hemp pilot…