New provisions that benefit whaling captains and rural hospitals appear to be aimed at winning over Senator Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who had said the bill would hurt her state.

The Alaska Court of Appeals has overturned an Anchorage man’s attempted murder conviction after finding that the trial judge improperly instructed jurors before they convicted the man.

A move in Congress would eliminate federal funding for public broadcasting, and the effects in Alaska would be severe.

The economics of air cargo and passenger service are very fragile in Alaska. Bypass mail and Medicaid-funded travel are essential to sustain air service to smaller communities.

Much like this inukshuk in silhouette on hilltop overlooking an Alaskan lake at twilight, columnist Leslie Kouba discovered dark truths in the midnight sun during her recent trip to the 49th State ...

Rescuers in Alaska recovered the body of a 62-year-old woman who went on a hike in the mountains near Juneau after leaving the Norwegian Bliss cruise ship.

A federal judge has upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s new system to manage commercial harvests in federal waters of Cook Inlet, concluding that the agency has no obligation to ...

Hundreds of thousands of workers will see more money in their paychecks starting next month due to minimum wage increases.

The decision issues some limits on the power of federal judges to universally block President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, asking lower courts to reconsider their rulings.

At issue is the Louisiana legislature's creation of a Black-majority congressional district, which a group of voters claimed was an illegal racial gerrymander.

The Supreme Court upheld a key plank of Obamacare against a constitutional attack on Friday by a 6–3 vote. But in the process, the majority wound up handing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. significantly ...

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