By SHAUN T. COX
JUNEAU EMPIRE
ANCHORAGE –
Wasilla scored the first four points as the Bears struggled to get going early, with two turnovers in their first four possessions. Sarah Tarver scored inside at the 4:20-mark to put the Bears on the board, and Karli Brakes tied things up with a steal and lay-up. A Taylor Laron [...]

A measure making clear the governor’s place is in Juneau has passed the Senate.

A grand jury indicted a Fairbanks woman accused of using a business account to steal more than $6,000 worth of goods from a local Sam’s Club and Walmart.

A committee reviewing whether fluoride should remain in the Fairbanks water supply heard arguments from both sides of the debate.

Lawmakers agree with Alaska’s small dairy farmers and hobbyists who say new cheese regulations written by a state agency are too stringent.

An Alaska wildlife veterinarian will examine whether two wolves shot by officials this week were the animals that killed a teacher out jogging alone along a rural village road.

Former Juneau resident John R. Charles died Feb. 12, 2010, in Mount Vernon, Wash. He was 44.

How would you like to watch a murder or suicide on television? KTOO provided us with that opportunity this past week with the documentary, “the Suicide Tourist.” This is the show of an individual’s trip to Switzerland to take advantage of that country’s legal environment which approves assisted suicide. The organization doing the killing calls itself Dignitas.

ANCHORAGE – The capital city girls are one win away from state glory.

NOME – Lance Mackey won the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday to become the first musher in the event’s 38-year history to win four consecutive races.