A federal judge threw out an industry lawsuit Wednesday that could have led to more logging and road building in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the nation’s largest federal forest.

Gov. Sean Parnell says Alaska is being left out of talks that would overhaul the federal government’s approach to coastal and marine planning.

The co-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says he wants to see Gov. Sean Parnell’s priorities for addressing school construction needs in rural Alaska.

Getting benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs is a slow and overly complex process, Alaska vets told a U.S. Senate committee hearing.

A 29-year-old Anchorage man has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for torturing and killing his neighbor.

A memorial service for ConocoPhillips Alaska President Jim Bowles will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at ChangePoint Church in Anchorage.

ANCHORAGE – An Anchorage man acquitted of murdering a woman now acknowledges that he killed her by smashing her head with a rock and seven years later broke into his neighbor’s house and shot her to death, according to court papers filed Tuesday.

ANCHORAGE – Most people would have said, “Heck with this.” But for Jennifer Sullivan, that first dive in the freezing-cold waters in Whittier on that Thanksgiving weekend sealed the deal.

Gulls line a couple empty boat stalls Tuesday in Aurora Harbor as they hunker out of the weather.

SEATTLE – The body of a veteran climber who fell 1,500 feet into the crater atop Mount St. Helens was recovered Tuesday after he spent more than a day in the snow, authorities said.