Associated Press

In a coastal hub town above Alaska’s Arctic Circle, even summer temperatures are too cold for northern-growing forests to take root. Yet a creative kind of farming is sprouting up in the largely Inupiat community of Kotzebue. A subsidiary of a local Native corporation is using hydroponics technology to grow produce inside an insulated, 40-foot…

The state elections director says a lawsuit spawned by poll worker errors in the August primary election served as a teaching moment. Josie Bahnke says her division is ready for Tuesday’s general election. Bahnke said she feels good heading into the election, especially after providing in-person training with poll workers and listening to their concerns.…

State prosecutors have upgraded charges filed against the 29-year-old man suspected of shooting a Fairbanks Police Department sergeant.

Ketchikan officials are working to fix the arch that welcomes visitors to the city after a suspected drunken driver slammed into one of the poles supporting the structure.

A painted icon of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane that sits behind the altar in a Kenai church is getting repaired, months after it was damaged by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake.

A spokesman for the Alaska Division of Forestry says the agency is assessing what it’s missing after a man broke into two fenced state parking lots Sunday in Fairbanks and drove off with a state truck and trailer.