SEATAC, Wash. (AP) — A man was arrested on investigation of misdemeanor assault following an altercation with a gate agent at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska tribal governments and organizations have asked the state to withdraw a lawsuit alleging a federal agency overstepped its authority by granting an Alaska Native...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A DNA match has solved the strangulation murder of a teenager in southeast Alaska, a case that was cold for 24 years and saw another man acquitted of the crime after...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — All residents of an Alaska city will be offered free coronavirus screening tests to help prevent the spread of the illness.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A bird symbolizing America's freedom had to be liberated on Independence Day after becoming stuck in a tree in Alaska, a wildlife official said.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska court upheld a lawsuit by a tribal organization against the state concerning the sac roe herring fishery and its protection as a subsistence resource.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard and a fishing ship have rescued a vessel that was flooding off the coast of Southeast Alaska.

Coast Guard personnel and the fishing ship rescued the...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska city plans to pay $4.1 million to the federal government to resolve outstanding liabilities related to physician compensation violations.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — State and federal emergency responders have ended a search for a Sitka man missing on a kayak trip, Alaska State Troopers said.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A search is underway for a man missing on a kayak trip outside Sitka, the U.S. Coast Guard announced.

Kale Pastel, 36, left on an early morning kayaking trip to...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has announced a full-year closure of both commercial and personal fishing of two varieties of rockfish in southeast Alaska...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Sitka is considering getting into the tiny home movement.

The Daily Sitka Sentinel reports the Sitka Planning Commission got its first look Wednesday at how city code...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska city has agreed to pay a former detective $325,000 to settle a lawsuit in which he claimed to have been punished for speaking out about problems in the police...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — New technology distributed in an Alaska community is expected to help detect and study conditions that lead to landslides, a researcher said.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An industry trade group predicts the number of Alaska cruise ship passengers will break records in 2020 for the fifth consecutive year.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Alaska wildlife troopers have confiscated catch from a fishing industry lobbyist suspected of fishing in closed waters, officials said.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A health care business group is preparing for the completion of a merger with an Alaska hospital system, officials said.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Not many groups of young people thrown together under circumstances generously considered adverse will reunite again after five years, much less 40. But nothing could be...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A health care business group plans to rename five southeast Alaska facilities and close an emergency care unit, officials said.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska House has endorsed a tribe's effort to change the name of Saginaw Bay to Skanax Bay.

Tribal leaders are pushing the change because the body of water off Kuiu...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Coast Guard helicopter plucked five commercial fishermen from a life raft after their fishing boat ran aground in southeast Alaska.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A 30-year-old man from a southeast Alaska village has been convicted of first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A city government in Alaska has approved agreements allowing a regional health consortium to take over operation of its community hospital, officials said.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A mechanical problem prevented a rescue helicopter from responding quickly to the scene of a fatal January air ambulance plane crash in Alaska, according to U.S. Coast Guard...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A historic Alaska museum and library may be sold at the direction of Gov. Mike Dunleavy, according to a state official.

The Sheldon Jackson Museum and adjacent Stratton...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Alaska officials have advanced an effort to name a new lake for a dog lost in the landslide that formed the body of water.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Sitka city officials plan to look at options for a third-party investigation of the local police department.

The Sitka Assembly decision follows lawsuits by two officers...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Natives concerned with overharvest of herring in waters off Sitka have taken their concerns to state court and the street.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska hospital announced Wednesday that it will suspend all scheduled and emergency surgeries as of Feb. 28.

The Sitka Community Hospital said the decision to...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Farmers in southeast Alaska are set to meet for a weekend of networking and workshops that aim to better equip the food growers.

The Southeast Alaska Farmers Summit begins Friday in Sitka, bringing together local farmers and outside commercial agriculture experts, the Daily Sitka Sentinel reported .

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Los Angeles-based producers are working to develop a TV series that would be set and filmed in southeast Alaska.

Helena Sardinha and Rafael Thomaseto are planning an eight-episode anthology series called "Sitka" through their production company Driven Equation, the Juneau Empire reported Wednesday.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Large oyster farms have been proposed for southeast Alaska, marking potential growth in marine life cultivation for food that a state task force has projected could be a $100 million industry.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Raptor Center officials have found six eagles that were dead or dying in the Sitka area over the weekend.

Avian director Jen Cedarleaf tells the Daily Sitka Sentinel that eagles found recently have been thin and in poor condition, noting that food is scarce this time of year.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Sitka's police chief has asked borough officials to increase wages and support other changes to improve recruitment and retention of police officers in the southeastern Alaska city.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Officials say an eagle is recovering after it became stranded on a power pole in downtown Sitka.

The Daily Sitka Sentinel reports the male eagle was taken to the Alaska Raptor Center after electric department linemen rescued it from the pole Sunday.

Center avian director Jen Cedarleaf says the raptor has been named Zappa and appears to be doing fine.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Mike Dunleavy's administration plans to replace the public safety member on the board regulating Alaska's legal marijuana industry.

Dunleavy spokesman Matt Shuckerow said by email that for "various reasons," Dunleavy's boards and commissions director chose to reopen the search for applicants. Shuckerow says the decision was not based on prior policy positions.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A second-grade class is helping feed hungry people in Sitka.

The children at Keet Gooshi Heen (KEET-GOO-shee-HEEN) Elementary School are participating in a project to collect food that will be donated to the Salvation Army.

The Sitka Sentinel reports the project is called "Fill the Halls."

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — The Sitka Historic Preservation Commission will consider backing a proposal to name a lake for a beloved dog that died as the small body of water was created by a landslide.

Kevin Knox and Maggie Gallin have applied to the U.S. Board of Geographic Names to designate the 1-acre (0.4-hectare) body of water as "Luna Lake," the Sitka Sentinel reported, after their 11-year-old border collie, Luna.

The landslide killed Luna and nearly killed the couple.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Sitka police killed two brown bears that entered a shed and menaced a home.

The Daily Sitka Sentinel reports police just before 3 a.m. Tuesday took a call about the bears from a resident at a mobile home court.

The caller said a sow and a cub were eating a deer he had hung inside a shed.

The man called again soon afterward saying the bears were scratching on his house.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska businessman is suing a Sitka Assembly member, seeking repayment of more than $135,000 in loans and vendor payments related to a marijuana business.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Sitka officials have shelved a measure that would tax single-use carryout bags provided to customers by businesses on the Alaska island.

The Sitka Assembly voted this week to "postpone indefinitely" the proposed ordinance taxing paper and plastic bags, the Daily Sitka Sentinel reported Wednesday.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A former employee of the city of Sitka has been sentenced to 45 years in prison in the deadly shooting of his girlfriend last year.

Reuben Yerkes, 40, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in June to second-degree murder in the death of 28-year old Ali Clayton, the Daily Sitka Sentinel reported .

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Wildlife officials came up with a new plan to try and coax a Steller sea lion back to the ocean after it had been shuffling through neighborhoods in Sitka since Friday.