The New Public Administration: Arctic Bridge for Social Justice

It was round two Tuesday in the fight over the Anchorage Assembly’s power over public testimony to the body, and challengers scored a knockout.

John Kerry is grappling with war in Syria and tensions on the Korean peninsula. But on Tuesday, he dives into an issue in which he has long been interested - climate change.

From “Act of Congress”: The inside story on formation of consumer protection entity.

Anchorage is the most expensive on the list, but Kiplingers said the robust job market and high wages makes it attractive.

Two Native villages on Alaska's wind-battered western coast are coping with shortages of treated water brought on by failures of their supply transmission pipelines.

Alaska plans to give up billions of dollars in tax revenue it has been drawing from oil producers to spur new drilling at a time when energy production is surging across the Lower 48 states.

(AP) — Federal officials temporarily stopped funding a $361 million water pipeline for a Native American reservation in Montana after learning that millions of project dollars were missing and a Chippewa Cree leader in charge of the project steered...

FAIRBANKS — When Charles and Belle Hinckley arrived in Fairbanks in the spring of 1904, they had no inkling that they would establish what would become a bird sanctuary 70 years later.

After New York Mayor Michael R.Bloomberg unveiled his plan to ban the sale of sodas larger than 16 ounces, comedian Jon Stewart complained that the proposal "combines the draconian government overreach people love with the probable lack of results...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A ruptured hose at an Alaska well on Tuesday sprayed about two-thirds of an acre of snow-covered tundra and forced Spanish oil firm Repsol to halt exploration tests briefly...

Only organized religion can mobilize communities and lead to real action

FAIRBANKS — School district Superintendent Pete Lewis updated school board members Tuesday night on his follow-up to school bus safety concerns expressed by a dozen employees of First Student transportation company in public testimony at the March...

Asian powers keen on shipping and development given observer status; EU and Greenpeace kept out

After 56 years, the grave of the late Fort Yukon Chief Esias Loola has been located in Washington state and plans are in the making to return his remains to the Yukon River village to be buried next to his wife, Katherine, and his stepson, John...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District and its public school teachers will bring in a mediator to assist with contract negotiations.

Blackstone Group LP Chairman
Stephen Schwarzman is giving $100 million to set up a Rhodes
Scholarships-like program at China’s Tsinghua University, the
alma mater of senior officials including President Xi Jinping.

The project will build 35 new homes in South Anchorage, creating a new neighborhood designed to be both eco-friendly and energy-efficient, while fostering a sense of community through shared common spaces.

A new software system meant to automate many functions of Anchorage's city government is more than a year behind the original start date and has risen in price by about $4.5 million since the initial 2011 budget for it, the city's chief financial...

HEALY — More than 300 student leaders head to Healy this week for the Alaska Association of Student Governments spring conference.

Companies that invest in higher salaries for low-level employees find success in a competitive market

The U.S. Senate is expected this week to take up a non-binding amendment to test support for online sales tax collections.

A HUNDRED years ago today, a young man stood surrounded by friends on a railway platform in Shanghai. Song Jiaoren was heading to Beijing to form a new government....