Gov. Sean Parnell has proposed cutting the state head tax on cruise ship passengers from $46 to $34.50 to address industry concerns that the cost of doing business is too high in Alaska.

Labor, trade and craft workers are set to vote on a tentative three-year agreement with the state.

An Anchorage man convicted of possessing crack cocaine was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Fairbanks police say a local gun-rights advocate was arrested this week for failing to notify an officer he was carrying a concealed weapon.

Police say an Anchorage man shot and killed his neighbor’s 10-year-old Chihuahua this week, escalating a long-standing dispute over roaming dogs.

State wildlife biologists fatally shot a wolf pack the National Park Service had been following as part of a 16-year research project.

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Tony Soltys gets a kick out of hearing stories from his students about how they’ve been putting instruction from his Fly Fishing 101 class to work.

HATCHER PASS – The Mat-Su Area Office of Alaska State Parks announces that as of Saturday, March 13, the east side of Hatcher Pass will be open to snowmobiles from the Goldmint Trailhead Parking Lot at Mile 14.5 to the Hatcher Pass Summit at Mile 19 of the Hatcher Pass Road.

JUNEAU – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced the non-pelagic rockfish bag, possession and the mandatory retention for the sport fishery during 2010. Nonresident angler annual limits of yelloweye rockfish have also been established for the 2010 season.