Associated Press

An inmate is facing additional charges of assault and harassment after she has been accused of attacking a correctional officer at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau. KTVA-TV reports that Alaska State Troopers were notified of the incident on Friday. They reported the assault in an online dispatch. The officer was treated for minor…

Hundreds of people rallied in Midtown Anchorage in the wake of two black men fatally shot by officers in Louisiana and Minnesota and the deadly ambush on officers in Dallas, Texas. People lined streets and gathered in the parking lot of the Mall at Sears during the Friday night demonstration organized by Annalisha Jacobs. The…

The University of Alaska Fairbanks and state officials are seeking public input on new guidelines for how coastal communities should respond to tsunamis. The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports that new modeling shows the potential for extreme currents and flooding if a large tsunami were to hit Alaska’s coastal communities. UAF researchers and representatives from the…

The southeastern Alaska city of Saxman has been awarded a $60,000 grant to replace the roof of its clan house. The Ketchikan Daily News reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural development program in Alaska announced the Saxman grant Thursday. The clan house sits on the top of a hill that forms Saxman’s totem…

Prosecutors say it’s the eighth guilty plea for similar plots at Fenty between June 2009 and April 2012.