Police say a teenage boy was wounded in the leg Thursday morning during a drive-by shooting.

Police say two men who attempted to rob a Fairbanks home were instead beat up by their would-be victims.

Three people have applied for a vacancy on the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly as the Dec. 1 deadline approaches.

The Wasilla City Council got an earful this week from people concerned about annexation.

Thieves have hit the state Division of Forestry for the second time in four months.

Show us your big fish

Show us your big fish

JUNEAU – Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, will be presenting their 2007, human-powered journey from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands and signing books on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. at Centennial Hall.

One snowy day in mid November, I stood on the bank of the Holding Pond in the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area and was surprised to see a beaver swimming back and forth. He slapped his tail once or twice and disappeared as I turned my back to clean debris off the fence that guards the outlet of the pond. Later, I found his tracks along the shore of the pond and over the dike to the Mendenhall River.

As sunset neared, two shooters were still competing head to head in one of the most contested battles of the day, the “Annie Oakley.”