21+ hour, 24+ min ago   (100+ words) Juneau Independent Alaska prosecutors are dropping voter misconduct cases against a group of residents born in American Samoa after a state appeals court threw out felony charges against a woman who wrongly checked a box saying she was a U.S. citizen....

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (304+ words) The Alaska Legislature will join Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration in seeking to defend the state’s anti-bootlegging punishments in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. On Thursday, the joint House-Senate Legislative Council voted to hire an outside attorney to draft…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (388+ words) Three Southeast Alaska commercial fishers accused of deliberately sinking their boats are now pleading guilty. John Fisher of Sitka, Joseph Poling of Petersburg and Tony Vanveen of Sitka have each signed plea deals, according to documents filed with the U.S. District…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1003+ words) Working to keep the majority in Congress, Republicans at the midterm convention in Dallas are showcasing their chief legislative accomplishment — the sweeping package of tax breaks, social service cuts and immigration enforcement that President Donald Trump signed into law. A…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (456+ words) You may have seen me in a new ad speaking out about Sen. Dan Sullivan and Alaska’s trawl industry. I agreed to be in that ad because I believe our elected leaders have a responsibility to put Alaska’s resources and…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (372+ words) A Republican-aligned group on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission against Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan J. Sullivan. Sullivan, who shares the same first and last name as incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, is one of four candidates in…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1371+ words) Terror struck America on Sept. 11, 2001, when 19 al-Qaeda hijackers seized four Boeing jets and turned them into missiles, killing almost 3,000 people. The hijackers arrived in the U.S. on tourist visas with cash and travelers checks they got in the Middle East. They…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (986+ words) For three days this summer, teachers converged at the Flight 93 National Memorial in remote western Pennsylvania to talk about 9/11. How best to educate a new generation about the attacks 25 years ago? Which details are appropriate for young kids? What do…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (439+ words) Juneau got encouraging news this week about possibly paying 10% rather than 25% of the cost of a fast-tracked long-term glacial flooding solution, but that still is an immense bill beyond the city’s current means, Assembly members were told Monday night. That…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (935+ words) News From The States The unnamed whistleblower predicted the result could be “foreseeable catastrophic disruption to our coming nationwide elections based on the reckless pursuit of readying a new, insufficiently tested, poorly planned mail-in ballot screening system.” The system contains…...