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A federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday that President Trump’s decision to end protection of young immigrants from deportation was “arbitrary and capricious.”

Industry representatives are telling Southeast leaders they need to oppose the Stand for Salmon initiative and related legislation.

Alaska authorities say the synthetic opioid fentanyl is an escalating problem in the remote state, and it’s leading to a significant increase in deaths.

Rosie Mancari’s Winter Olympics are over, but the Anchorage snowboarder is delaying surgery on two injured ankles so she can cheer on her teammates in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget would cut a lot of line-items that benefit Alaska. Here are five programs the administration wants to cut that might pinch in Alaska.

The wind blew apart a large temporary tent and toppled a security scanner. A moveable fence was also knocked over – and all of those descriptions apply to just one block.

The Juneau Police is reporting that, overnight, two different vehicles went into the ditch, and another was in a single-vehicle crash. All three drivers were arrested on a DUI charge.

Juneau’s new elementary science curriculum will now integrate aspects of Native culture in order to promote place-based learning in the classroom. It also brings Juneau’s K-5 classrooms up to date with current national and state science standards.

Allen Moore is the 2018 Yukon Quest champion. Moore has mushed himself into elite class of Yukon Quest champions. Moore joins John Schandlemier, Hans Gatt and Lance Mackey who have all won the Quest three or more times.

They said in a letter to Walker that it would unfair to either confirm or reject Walker’s appointment of Randall Kowalke to replace Dunleavy.

The bill no longer accomplishes its original primary purpose. Senate President Pete Kelly said he thinks House leaders were “knowingly misleading” in saying that the bill would fund all schools early.

Etsy says it’s moving away from local and national laws — such as the U.S. Endangered Species Act — and toward international standards. But that means it’s excluding items made by Alaska Native artists that might use walrus ivory or certain animal pelts.

You have to go back over twenty years to find a colder winter Olympics.

Hladick said his boss — EPA administrator Scott Pruitt — recently called him up seeking some local knowledge, on a hot topic for many Alaskans: the proposed Pebble Mine.

The public can weigh in on whether Juneau should revamp its mining ordinance. The Juneau Assembly’s mining subcommittee will begin deliberations March 1.

This is not Unalaska’s first attempt to ban single use bags. In 2013 a petition asking the city council to “eliminate the use of plastic bags by Unalaska stores” circulated around the community, but went nowhere.

Charges have been filed against two Petersburg teenagers who allegedly hit multiple deer in town with their truck last week. The teenagers both say what happened Feb. 5 was an accident.

A researcher for the University of Alaska Fairbanks based in Kodiak, Mike Litzow said the recent crash in the Pacific cod population in the Gulf of Alaska was a wake-up call that there’s a lot to be learned about the early life stages of Pacific cod.

Anchorage Rep. Ivy Spohnholz said the Democratic party will more closely scrutinize candidates’ past conduct in the future.

Mary Moses, 30, is charged with second-degree assault, driving under the influence and refusing to submit to a breathalyzer test.