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A Dodge pickup is totaled after it slid into an embankment Saturday morning on North Tongass Highway. No injuries were reported.

Donald Trump’s many promises on his way to the White House included a tweeted vow to change the new name of North America’s tallest mountain back to Mount McKinley. Last year, the Obama administration renamed the Alaska peak Denali in a symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives ahead of the president’s visit to the state. Alaskans…

A nonprofit regional development group is recommending that the Alaska Marine Highway System be managed as a corporation under state ownership. Robert Venables of the Southeast Conference told the Ketchikan Daily News that the group wants to get input from lawmakers and the public in 2017 while spending the year drafting legislation and an operating…

A katana sword that was missing from an Anchorage card shop has been returned. KTVA-TV reports surveillance video shows a person dressed as a ninja leaving BOSCO’S Comic, Cards & Games with what looked to be the Japanese-style sword. Employee Eric Helmick said in an email that a man bought the sword from the thief…

Alaska’s pipeline project is slowly transferring to state leadership but could reach its goal before next year. The Alaska Journal of Commerce reports the $45 billion Alaska LNG Project would export natural gas. Alaska Gasline Development Corp.’s board of directors heard an update on the project Nov. 10. Corporation President Keith Meyer told the board…

Court documents say a man who stars in the hit reality TV series “Deadliest Catch” was strangled and suffered a fractured skull during a robbery. The Daily Herald reports that 33-year-old Jake Harris also had brain swelling, broken blood vessels in his eyes and bruising from something his assailant apparently wrapped around his throat. Harris…