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Alaska lawmaker visits site of partisan Arizona audit

June 9, 2021 GMT

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska lawmaker said he plans to use his legislative office account to pay for a trip to Arizona to visit a partisan audit of the 2020 election.

Feds: Owners must get helicopter wreckage off Alaska slope

March 31, 2021 GMT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The wreckage of a helicopter that crashed last weekend, killing five people, will have to be hoisted off a mountain by the company that owned it, a U...

3 quakes shake Alaska’s largest city, but no damage reports

November 7, 2020 GMT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Three earthquakes early Saturday morning shook Alaska's largest city, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

The strongest of the three, at magnitude 5.0, was recorded just before 3:30 a...

Alaska book ban vote draws attention of hometown rockers

May 1, 2020 GMT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Members of the Grammy-winning rock band Portugal. The Man are stepping into a banned book controversy in their Alaska home town...

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New special session venue has some Alaska lawmakers wary

By MARK THIESSEN and BECKY BOHRERJune 20, 2019 GMT

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — When Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy called for the Legislature's next special session to be held in Wasilla, some agreed with him that a change of venue would be good for lawmakers struggling to finish their work after a drawn-out five months at the state capital...

Second defendant sentenced in theft of Alaska mammoth tusk

May 30, 2019 GMT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A second man has been sentenced in the theft of a fossilized woolly mammoth tusk from an Anchorage museum.

Federal prosecutors say 41-year-old Gary Boyd of Wasilla was sentenced Wednesday to 33 months in prison.

The Latest: Dunleavy wins GOP primary for Alaska governor

August 22, 2018 GMT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on Alaska's primary election (all times local):

Alaska rescue group takes in alligator that outgrew bathtub

October 20, 2017 GMT

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — It was an odd day for one Alaska animal control officer who took a call about an alligator outgrowing its bathtub.

KTUU-TV reports that a Wasilla resident called 911 this week after realizing that the more than 4-foot-long (1...