By Sentinel Staff U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski will visit Sitka next Wednesday to hold a round table with local government and civic leaders, her press office said today. Lisa Murkoswki while …
By YERETH ROSEN Alaska Beacon Alaska regulators have ordered an inactive oil company to pay more than $6 million in fines for failing to properly close and plug North Slope oil wells that it left …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Jeremy Cubas, a former policy adviser to Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, has filed a libel lawsuit against two reporters and three news organizations, according to an …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon An Anchorage Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline as incompatible with the state …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon A federal judge in Juneau has sentenced a Southeast Alaska fisher to six months in federal prison after pleading guilty last year to one count of misreporting a …
EDITOR’S NOTE: In recent weeks the Sentinel has published reports by Mark Gorman about the work he and his wife Nancy Knapp were doing with U.S.-supported relief work in Myanmar. Over the weekend …
By Shannon Haugland Sentinel Staff Writer Monday night's community meeting on city animal control policy and shelter operations drew about three dozen people with differing ideas about future …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon A bill intended to fix potholes in a popular road within Chugach State Park has also exposed rocky relationships between two leaders of the Alaska State …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon A Big Lake Republican has reintroduced a bill that would require the state of Alaska to sell the Alaska Railroad. Rep. Kevin McCabe, R-Big Lake, introduced House …
By YERETH ROSEN Alaska Beacon Companies will soon be able to bid on opportunities to tap a volcanic island in Cook Inlet to generate renewable energy. Alaska officials have scheduled a …
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer Rules on spaying and neutering, maximum length of stay for an animal in the city animal shelter, and euthanasia protocol are among possible discussion items at …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The Alaska House of Representatives today began debating a bill that would provide a big boost to K-12 public school funding. When legislators begin talking, …
By CORRINE SMITH Alaska Beacon Federal workers across Alaska regions, agencies, and areas of expertise have been fired as part of the Trump administration’s “Department of Government …
By CORINNE SMITH Alaska Beacon The family of Lewis Jordan Jr. and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week against the Alaska Department of Corrections …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Over the past two years, nearly 100 homeless Alaskans died on the streets of Anchorage. Last week, Anchorage Democratic Sen. Elvi Gray-Jackson …
Mass firings that swept through the federal civil service in mid-February left a number of Sitkans scrambling to find new employment, threw careers off course and triggered a rebuke and legal challenge from a union representing federal...
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer Poor weather has again delayed the start date for emergency maintenance on the underwater fiberoptic internet cable to Sitka, with work now expected to …
GARLAND KENNEDY Sentinel Staff Writer In a cost saving move, the Sitka School Board voted Wednesday to form its own food service and abandon its school lunch contract with a commercial provider …
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer Fifth-grade band members remember their first steps in learning their new instruments at the beginning of the school year, starting with assembling them and …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon British Columbia Premier David Eby said Thursday that he intends to introduce legislation that would place tolls on commercial trucks traveling from the Lower 48 to …