Thunder Mountain High School students returned to class about 3 p.m. Friday, after a suspected gas leak proved to be a false alarm. Capital City Fire & Rescue tested the air and found it to be clean, officials said.

Police are calling the death of a man in his home as the city’s first homicide of 2010.

The state could be asked to pay the cost of private attorneys hired by a governor accused of breaking ethics laws, under a bill proposed by an Anchorage Democrat.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has declared a fishery disaster because of low Chinook salmon returns along Alaska’s Yukon River.

The Federal Subsistence Board has approved research to look for possible links between climate change and fishing patterns in three regions of Alaska.

A Salcha man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his landlord.

The Interior Department says it’s taking longer than expected to review management of subsistence hunting and fishing in Alaska.

The application period has been announced for getting a permit to run halibut charters in southeast Alaska and the Gulf of Alaska.

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Ted Merrell, a local retired fish biologist, will host a lecture Saturday on what he calls the “early days” – days before statehood, before oil drilling in the Arctic and before snowmobiles were the norm in native Alaskan villages.