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.

After a spring mini-blizzard, I wandered around some of the Dredge Lake recreation area, just to see what I could see. There was too little snow under the dense young spruces to do much animal tracking, but in more open areas, tracking was good. I found numerous tracks of snowshoe hares in the mixed alder/willow/spruce areas. The hares had been gnawing willow bark and nibbling blueberry twigs.

Eaglecrest and Discovery Southeast have teamed up to offer a week of snow sports fun during Spring Break.