A personalized gun case, a Bible bound in goat skin and a hand-painted plate featuring Sarah Palin’s likeness were among gifts the former Alaska governor received this year.

A former investment banker has been hired as the chief executive officer for Huna Totem Corp.

ANCHORAGE – Dog drivers from Jamaica, Scotland, Italy, Canada and the United States will compete the 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a northern route that will take mushers and nearly 1,000 sled dogs over 1,112 miles of wilderness.

The universe of notoriety is bigger than it was in 1968 when Andy Warhol proclaimed, “In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”

This column is a response to an Aug. 11 letter to the editor by Gretchen Goldstein.

In the 1960s Madison Avenue era, painstakingly re-created in the cult hit television show “Mad Men,” advertisers could buy a fixed block of airtime on television and be guaranteed a captive audience. That’s what Winston cigarettes did for the inaugural season of “The Flintstones” in 1960: Cartoon-loving prospective smokers tuned in to see Fred and Barney gleefully puffing away, shilling the product.

The 4-inch-thick vault door on the ground floor of the Alaska State Archives building will keep a lot of things out – but not water from the floor above, state workers learned Monday morning.

Two Juneau schools ranked high in the state’s Performance Incentive Program, an effort to motivate teachers and schools by offering them cash rewards for strong student performance or improvement.

A 22-foot Hewescraft boat with seven passengers capsized near Lena Point at about noon Monday, trapping one man underneath.

Coeur Alaska Inc. was mum Friday after finally securing a key permit holding up its Juneau-area Kensington gold mine, but spoke up Monday about what that means for the construction schedule and hundreds of job seekers.