Russia has released a retired American teacher imprisoned on charges of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff announced the release Wednesday during a meeting with Russian …
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have announced a $25 million program to encourage the public to blow the whistle on suspected fraud in the U.S. government as they ramp up efforts …
Over 500 people in South Africa have fallen ill from a gastrointestinal illness linked to poor water quality in two cities. Authorities have warned communities in Bronkhorstspruit, east of Pretoria, …
Turkey has submitted a mutual defense agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to its parliament for ratification. The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement was signed in August. It commits the countries to …
Israeli forces have detained Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander as he helped Palestinian farmers harvest olives in the West Bank. He was released hours later, but dozens of other …
When Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, an Orthodox Jew who lives in Jerusalem, first arrived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 2011 to research Amish communities, she had only visited the U.S. once and …
Brazil’s Supreme Court has suspended an environmental permit for a major gold mining project in the Amazon rainforest. This decision impacts a Canadian company’s plans to develop an open-pit mine …
Lake Street will reopen by October 28, after contractors finish the replacement of underground infrastructure, the city public works department announced. “The contractor would like to do it as quickly as they can,” said city engineer Mike...
FOND MEMORIES - Scott Saline hands out bags of freshly cooked rockfish at his Sea Daddy restaurant on Katlian Street Friday. Saline was offering free lunch to everyone to honor his good friend and long-time Sitka fisherman Jeff Stewart, who died...
The Sitka Parks and Recreation Division and the Sitka Recreation Foundation will host an open house Thursday to gather input from Sitkans to help build a long range Parks and Recreation Master Plan for Sitka. The open house is 4 to 7 p.m. at...
On October 12, Golden Valley Electric Association asked its cooperative members to conserve electricity and prepare for possible controlled power outages. Scheduled maintenance, compounded by an unexpected shutdown of a unit at its North Pole Power Plant, had left the utility running all remaining available generation with very little reserve. Coming just before winter, after […]
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry says debris from an intercepted drone has killed two people and injured two others at an Aramco-operated oil field in the country’s southeast. The two people killed …
Some residents in Toledo, Ohio, have been ordered to evacuate due to a chemical release that can cause eye, nose, mouth and skin irritation. The city's fire department announced the evacuation late …
Police say a 46-year-old man was fatally shot as he drove over the George Washington Bridge. The shooting happened toward the end of the Tuesday evening rush on the upper deck of the bridge that …
Tesla posted a drop in profit for the latest quarter as it prepares for a possible merger with Elon Musk’s other big business, SpaceX. The electric vehicle maker reported third-quarter net income …
Vice President JD Vance says he’s “disgusted” by the pushback from fellow Republicans to an ad Vivek Ramaswamy is running against his Democratic opponent for Ohio governor, Dr. Amy Acton. …
Meta Platforms says its third-quarter profit jumped more than threefold, as revenue climbed sharply. The Facebook and Instagram parent company on Wednesday reported net income of $9.86 billion, or …
The Los Angeles Angels have fired manager Kurt Suzuki after losing 100 games in his only season at the helm. Baseball operations consultant John Mozeliak announced Wednesday that the Angels declined …
A year after a Pacific storm largely destroyed villages in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and prompted the biggest air evacuation in state history, people in the region are bracing for repeat occurrences. Among them is Johnny Andrew Jr. of Kwigillingok, a Yup’ik village of about 400 people, most of whom were evacuated when the storm hit. […]
Thousands of people have greeted marching students arriving into Serbia’s capital on the eve of a closing campaign rally ahead of a tense parliamentary election on weekend challenging authoritarian …