The Alaska Court of Appeals will hear arguments Thursday that Mechele Linehan was wrongly convicted of a murder conspiracy because the judge allowed evidence about her career as a stripper.

Crews and equipment were being positioned Monday to begin cleaning up a spill on Alaska’s North Slope that fouled an area of snow-covered tundra.

JUNEAU — On behalf of Capital City Celebrations and volunteer Myrna Allen, the city of Juneau will receive a special bench commissioned by Tlingit artist Doug
Chilton to commemorate Alaska’s 50 years of statehood.

Juneau-Douglas hockey player Zane Chapman is making the most out of his final season in a Crimson Bears’ uniform as the team prepares to host North Pole this Friday and Saturday at Treadwell Arena.

Today marks the online release of a new documentary chronicling the storied history of the Alaska Baseball League from the first Midnight Sun Game in 1906, to the formation of the Fairbanks Goldpanners in 1960 up to the present.

ANCHORAGE – Alaskans are losing the battle of the bulge.

To boost Alaska seafood market prices and expand the Alaska brand in Europe, the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is in discussions with a trade group that certifies and labels sustainable seafood.

For many Americans, the financial crisis, and the recession it spawned, have been devastating – jobs, homes, savings lost. Understandably, many people are calling for change. Yet change needs to be about creating a system that works better, not just differently. As a nation, our challenge is to design a system of financial oversight that will embody the lessons of the past two years and provide a robust framework for preventing future crises and the economic damage they cause.

I can recall a Thanksgiving when this country was mourning the loss of its youthful, handsome president. And because of the memory of those horrible days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, I am having a hard time being either amused or nonchalant – as some seemingly are – about the Virginia couple who crashed Tuesday’s state dinner at the White House.

As we reflect on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, we will come to reaffirm that we have work yet to be done, whether we are people living with AIDS, clinicians, seniors, young people, politicians or anybody else. We are not through with this yet.