JUNEAU — Parts of downtown, Douglas and the Valley lost power at about 7 p.m. Wednesday after a generator at the Snettisham hydroelectric site tripped off line, Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. reported.
AEL&P spokesman Scott Willis said the generator…

A murder trial for a Craig woman accused a second time of plotting with two former boyfriends to kill her mother has been set for September in Ketchikan.

The father of Bristol Palin’s baby boy says he’s been treated like an outcast since the end of Gov. Sarah Palin’s run for vice president.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin plans to raise money for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s re-election campaign.

Alaska’s minimum wage would get a boost under a bill that has passed the state Senate.

A 19-year-old man is accused of breaking into an Anchorage high school then trying to pass himself off as an FBI agent when police arrived.

A man has established a Web site soliciting donations for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to pay more than $500,000 in legal fees, but a spokeswoman for her political action committee says she can’t accept the money.

Take a look at Celtic Diva’s blog entry about Palin supporters rummaging through the comments made on Anchorage Daily News, looking for and reporting comments as offensive whenever they are anti-Palin, effectively silencing any and all opposing views.
Her entry makes a good point – it’s ironic when those who complain about infringements on our freedom [...]

Fran Ulmer, chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage, is being honored as a strong role model for women.

A seething federal judge dismissed the corruption conviction of former Sen. Ted Stevens on Tuesday and took the rare and serious step of ordering a criminal investigation into prosecutors who poisoned the case.