Agencies pledge science-based Arctic decisions

8 February 2012, 1:09 pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The federal government will make a renewed commitment to incorporate science into Arctic energy decisions, the Interior Department's deputy secretary said Tuesday, including the...... Read More »

FBI helps in search for abducted Anchorage barista

8 February 2012, 11:31 am

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Anchorage police are getting help from the FBI in the search for a young woman abducted from a coffee stand. It's been a week since 18-year-old Samantha Koenig was abducted fro...... Read More »

Alaska man accused of trying to extort gov't

8 February 2012, 8:32 am

(02-07) 20:32 PST Anchorage, Alaska (AP) -- Authorities in Alaska say a man threatened to teach "crackheads" how to make "electromagnetic distortion devices" unless the state paid him $85,000. Stanislaus Grzeskowiak, of...... Read More »

Trooper: North Pole man's attempted extortion case involved threats

8 February 2012, 3:02 am

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska man accused of attempted extortion told Alaska State Troopers he would shut down government and commercial entities and teach "crackheads" to make devices that could b...... Read More »

Ex-Murkowski aide gets 5 months jail in fish case

7 February 2012, 7:47 am

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A man who sat on the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council and violated fishing regulations while a member was sentenced Friday to five months in federal prison. Arne Fugl...... Read More »

Anchorage police want to hear from public in barista abduction case

7 February 2012, 3:46 am

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Anchorage police investigating the abduction of a barista are asking for the public's help. Police ask anyone who was in the parking lot of the midtown Alaska Club on Tudor Roa...... Read More »

Shell hopeful for Arctic drilling

6 February 2012, 9:52 pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - It's the billion-dollar question in Alaska for 2012: Will this be the year Shell Oil begins large-scale offshore exploratory drilling in Arctic waters? Two months into 2012, th...... Read More »

AT&T Invests More Than $650 Million in Alaska From 2009 Through 2011 to Improve Local Networks

6 February 2012, 7:00 am

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* invested more than $650 million in its Alaska wireless and wireline networks from 2009 through 2011 with a focus on improving the company's mobile ...... Read More »

Shell has high hopes for Arctic drilling

5 February 2012, 1:12 pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — It's the billion-dollar question in Alaska for 2012: Will this be the year Shell Oil begins large-scale offshore exploratory drilling in Arctic waters?... Read More »

Police believe missing Anchorage, Alaska, barista was abducted, based on actions seen in tape

3 February 2012, 6:11 pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Anchorage police say there's little doubt an 18-year-old woman was abducted after she closed up a coffee stand Wednesday night. Detective Slawomir Markiewicz tells the Anchorage Daily News ( http://bit.ly/wfOgek ) that surveillance tapes from that night show a man wearing a h... Read More »