Good scuba conditions this week allowed a dive crew to get inside the SS Princess Kathleen, the vessel that sank off Point Lena in 1952 now leaking oil into the ocean.

ANCHORAGE – Paint the town crimson.

ANCHORAGE – Providence Alaska Medical Center unveiled details earlier this month about a major campus expansion that will expand and modernize the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, Prenatal and Mother Baby Units and cardiac surgery program and renovate other areas of the hospital.

ANCHORAGE – Last August above the Alaska Peninsula, a 30-something teacher from the East Coast snapped photo out the window of a plane. The frame captured the underside of the wing, a distant snowy mountain and a muddy creek snaking through a green valley far below. A few days later, Candice Berner posted her snapshot in the first entry of a blog about teaching in rural Alaska. She titled the post, “The Journey begins … “

NOME – Lance Mackey picked up a few rewards on his way to winning an unprecedented fourth consecutive win in the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

KETCHIKAN – A scheduled blast at a Ketchikan construction site sent rock flying into a neighborhood, punching holes in houses and shattering windows.

Here’s a question that’s not being asked in the health-care debate: How much medical care do we want in our lives? It’s something we should be discussing.

Bankers should be a humble crew. Their reckless trading almost ruined the world economy. But they are as arrogant as ever.

My Inupiat family has lived in the northwest arctic for generations. I am a NANA shareholder and I am employed by Teck Alaska. That makes me a landowner and operator.