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Deliberations to resume on Monday morning.

Sealaska officials say board Chairman Albert Kookesh is making slow but steady progress as he recovers from a Monday, Feb. 18, heart attack.

Ashley Johnston initially claimed that she couldn’t remember June 19th incident at Adair-Kennedy Park.

Updated: Alaska children’s author and long-time Juneau resident Jean Rogers has died. She was 93.

Witness cannot identify Ashley Johnston as the blond-haired suspect leaving the scene last June.

The Alaska House of Representatives has come out against genetically engineered salmon, or as critics call it, “Frankenfish.”

We’ve all heard talk of how businesses need to change to succeed in today’s marketplace. A group of Alaska entrepreneurs shared their success stories at the recent Innovation Summit in Juneau, hoping to inspire others.

Juneau Rep. Beth Kerttula on Tuesday made quick work of a question that seemed to flummox House Majority Republicans. “Is the caucus supportive of the idea of having legal same-sex unions in Alaska?” asked Mark Miller of the Juneau Empire. “This is really a civil rights question,” Kerttula said. “And people deserve to live with…

The chairman of the Senate Education Committee is speaking out on last week’s decision to pull from his committee a proposed constitutional amendment that would let public money be used for private schools.

An Alaska Native leader and former lawmaker remained in the hospital Tuesday after suffering a heart attack Monday in Juneau.

House Bill 80 now goes to Governor Sean Parnell for his signature.

Attu Island is overdue for some spring cleaning. Seventy years after World War II, the island is still littered with shards of old Coke bottles, lead-based batteries, leaking fuel drums and unexploded artillery.

A group of King Cove residents are meeting with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The goal is to convince Salazar to allow a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.

The document is meant as a policy guide for such things as municipal land use, economic development, transportation, and infrastructure.

Former state Senator Albert Kookesh was medevaced to Anchorage Monday morning after suffering a heart attack.

Alaskans marked Elizabeth Peratrovich Day on Saturday, in honor of the Tlingit woman whose testimony to the territorial legislature helped pass an Anti-Discrimination Act in 1945. A small crowd gathered at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau to hear a talk from Barbara Cadiente-Nelson, a board member of Sealaska Native Corporation and the Douglas Indian…

Troopers are not identifying the boy, also from Kake, because he is a minor. He was transported to a Juvenile Justice holding facility in Ketchikan on Saturday.

James Michael “Jim” Wells, long considered the prime suspect by the FBI, was taken into custody by members of the Coast Guard Investigative Service and the Alaska State Troopers.

The Books To Boards program at Eaglecrest Ski Area is in its fourth season, offering a select group of Juneau middle school students a chance to learn to ski and snowboard for free. It’s sponsored by the Eaglecrest Foundation, a non-profit corporation formed to raise, invest and manage donations for programs and projects at Eaglecrest…

Alaska’s congressional delegation today introduced new Sealaska land-selection bills. Both would turn about 70,000 acres of the Tongass National Forest over to Sealaska, the regional Native corporation for Southeast Alaska.