A decorated Anchorage police officer has been accused of sexually assaulting multiple women while he was on duty.

The Alaska Legislature will meet in special session outside the capital to override Gov. Sarah Palin’s veto of energy stimulus money and to confirm her appointment of a new lieutenant governor.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski hasn’t officially announced she’s running for re-election next year, but the Alaska Republican has built up more than $1 million in her war chest.

The city of Bethel will provide better trained Yup’ik translators at voting polls and translations of voting materials under an agreement with the Native American Rights Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union, a city official said.

Another gorgeous week in Juneau, and the softball season is steaming into its exciting finale this week.

A “gooey” substance floating off Alaskan waters in the Arctic Sea is mystifying local officials and the U.S. Coast Guard.

The U.S. Forest Service agreed Monday to sell timber to a Ketchikan mill in a roadless area of the Tongass National Forest after the Obama administration’s approved the sale.

I had written a column that was just about ready for publication when Gov. Sarah Palin derailed it last week with news of her resignation. The column was about my frustrating and fruitless campaign of the past seven months to have the governor speak to the editorial board of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America’s unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won’t bring jobs. Our nation’s debt is unsustainable, and the federal government’s reach into the private sector is unprecedented.

The Southeast Alaska Conservation Council asserted last Friday in a Juneau Empire column that they are doing the “right thing” about Kensington. However, what they are doing is politics, plain and simple. SEACC is in the business of politics, and if one digs down, the motivation one finds is money and power.