Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton has confirmed that his family home was the target of an alleged bomb plot but says concerns for his personal safety did not restrict his election …
Britain has announced a “surge” of military support to Ukraine, as the war-ravaged country’s Western backers gather at NATO headquarters to drum up weapons and ammunition. Britain said Friday …
A judge is set to decide whether to proceed with the resentencing hearings for Erik and Lyle Menendez in light of the Los Angeles County district attorney opposing their release. The brothers were …
A loose collection of rebel groups is challenging Ethiopia’s military in one of the country’s most populous and powerful regions. The conflict in Amhara has simmered largely out of sight, with …
A dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators who were arrested at Stanford University last year after they occupied and allegedly caused hundreds of thousands in damage to a campus building are now facing …
South Korea has established diplomatic relations with Syria’s new Islamist government months after longtime leader Bashar Assad was ousted. Seoul’s foreign ministry said Friday there were now new …
Israel has released a Palestinian who took part in an attack when he was 13 and developed schizophrenia in prison as requests for early release were denied. Israel says Ahmad Manasra is a terrorist …
The Alaska Senate will vote as soon as Friday on legislation that seeks to permanently increase K-12 public school funding, but Gov. Mike Dunleavy has vowed to veto the bill if it passes as currently written. On Thursday morning, the Senate Finance Committee approved a modified version of House Bill 69, which would increase the […]
Britain and France are convening a meeting of defense ministers from around 30 countries to press ahead with plans to deploy troops to Ukraine to police any future peace agreement with Russia. …
THURSDAY 6-8 p.m. ‘‘The Sitka Etoughffee-Off,’’ Sitka Lutheran Church kitchen, 907 747-9440 6 p.m. Sitka Tourism Commission, Harrigan Centennial Hall 6:30 p.m. An evening of poetry, poet Shauna Potocky, Sitka Public Library 6:30 p.m. Women’s...
A variance request to increase the maximum allowable height from 35 feet to 120 feet for a communication tower at Nancy Court was denied by the Planning Commission at its Wednesday meeting. A permit request for a manufactured and mobile...
After decades of working as a veterinary technician at clinics in Alaska, across the country and one overseas, April Wheldon has taken up the Animal Control Officer position in Sitka, filling a post left vacant for months following the resignation...
Southeast Alaska Regional Medical Center placed its Mount Edgecumbe Medical Center into lockdown status at 10:41 a.m. today. The building remained in lockdown until about 1:45 p.m. this afternoon. The lockdown came in response to a "potential...
Republicans in Congress are eyeing $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, the joint federal-state government health care program for lower-income people. Depending on how states respond, a Republican proposal that would slash the 90% federal contribution to states’ expanded Medicaid programs would end coverage for as many as 20 million of the 72 million people […]
An ex-military officer in Gambia and others have testified this week against a man on federal trial, accused of conspiring to torture opponents of the West Africa nation's longtime dictator. The men …
A senior U.N. official says a nearly two-year-old war has engulfed Sudan in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and led the African country to become the only nation experiencing famine. The …
As the Alaskan who leads the board of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation , I write to provide a frank update about the Alaska LNG Project, which has been in the news a lot lately — AGDC signed a deal with Glenfarne to take over the project, President Trump and our congressional delegation vocally support […]
Cities and states fighting a historic measles outbreak find themselves undermined by the Trump administration as they struggle to provide crucial vaccinations and overcome disinformation. As of this week, cases were nearing 650 in 22 states, on track to reach a 34-year high. A second unvaccinated child died of measles in West Texas last week. […]
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the lawyer for a U.S.-Russian dual national jailed in Russia on treason charges say she has been freed in a prisoner exchange between Moscow and Washington. …
Zimbabwe has started compensating white farmers who lost land during chaotic and often-violent land reforms more than 20 years ago, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said. The move is part of a deal …