Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has nominated former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel S. Sullivan to be Alaska’s next attorney general.

Representatives from Exxon Mobil Corp. and TransCanada will update Alaska lawmakers on their recent agreement to build a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope across Canada, feeding Midwestern markets.

An ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation is back before the Anchorage Assembly.

Gov. Sarah Palin’s supporters are holding a Web-a-thon to raise money for her legal defense fund.

Former longtime Juneau resident Elizabeth Lynne Smith died on June 8, 2009 in Portland, Ore. She was 66.

HOMER – An estimated 40,000 late-run silver salmon smolt died in the holding area of the Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon on the Homer spit.

FAIRBANKS – A Fairbanks man is trying to bring nuclear-powered electricity to the area.

ANCHORAGE – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down as unconstitutional a tax that the city of Valdez imposed on oil tankers loading crude oil from the southern terminus of the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline.

Justin Johnson, a maintenance mechanic at the Capitol Building, shovels debris Monday after a wall and office doorway were removed to make way for the new skybridge hallway between the Capitol and the Thomas B. Stewart Legislative Office Building, formerly the Scottish Rite Temple.

FAIRBANKS – A new $32 million state virology laboratory in Fairbanks is helping health officials track disease in Alaska.