All the headlines from our Alaska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 22 2018 // Alaska regulators are set to discuss proposed rules for allowing onsite consumption of marijuana at certain shops in August.Regulators have gone back and forth on onsite use, adopting rules in late 2015 to allow people to...
Jun 18 2018 // An attorney for Purdue Pharma, the company that makes the prescription opioid painkiller OxyContin, has told an Alaska judge that there is an opioid crisis but the state has no legal basis for trying to pin that crisis on...
Jun 7 2018 // An attorney for Purdue Pharma, the company that makes the prescription opioid painkiller OxyContin, has told an Alaska judge that there is an opioid crisis but the state has no legal basis for trying to pin that crisis on...
May 29 2018 // A 40-year-old Army officer assigned to Alaska has been charged with making false insurance claims and pocketing nearly $400,000.Lt. Col. Christopher James DeMure is charged with mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering....
May 18 2018 // The number of applications for marijuana business licenses is outgrowing the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office’s approval system.The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports a May 8 Marijuana Control Office spreadsheet...
May 14 2018 // Many Alaska residents were mistakenly warned on TV and on the radio Friday morning of a tsunami threat along the West Coast of the United States, from San Diego to Alaska’s Aleutian islands.The alert said at the end...
May 3 2018 // The state has argued in court that a climate change lawsuit filed by 16 young Alaska residents should be thrown out because climate policies must be decided by the state Legislature and the executive branch, not the...
Apr 4 2018 // A new credit-based scoring law brings Alaska into line with the rest of the nation, and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is applauding the state for that.Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and the Alaska...
Apr 2 2018 // A divided Alaska Supreme Court has sided with a river rafting company, deciding its release form protected it from liability in the 2013 death of a man on a rafting trip.The majority ruling, supported by three of the...
Mar 26 2018 // A divided Alaska Supreme Court has sided with a river rafting company, deciding its release form protected it from liability in the 2013 death of a man on a rafting trip.The majority ruling, supported by three of the...
Mar 9 2018 // Winter at the top of the world wimped out this year.The Arctic just finished its warmest winter on record. And sea ice hit record lows for this time of year, with plenty of open water where ocean water normally freezes...
Feb 27 2018 // Officials say a data breach at the University of Alaska has impacted dozens of current and former employees and students.KTVA-TV reported that a university statement says security officials first started looking into the...
Feb 22 2018 // Gov. Bill Walker’s administration has asked the Alaska Legislature for permission to spend $10 million on seismic surveying in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.The seismic survey funding was...
Feb 13 2018 // Alera Group has acquired Wilson Albers & Company LLC located in Anchorage, Alaska.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Wilson Albers & Company, LLC, parent company of The Wilson Agency, LLC, Albers & Company...
Feb 8 2018 // A former Alaska Airlines pilot will plead guilty in California to a charge of flying a passenger plane while drunk.Federal prosecutors say David Hans Arntson of Newport Beach agreed this week to enter the plea at a later...
Feb 5 2018 // Marsh & McLennan Insurance Agency has promoted eight executives to principals of the firm.In San Diego, the new Principals are Donna DeBolt, Wayne Pages, Greg Pendergast, Erin Quigley, Jeff Simpson, Ryan Stover, and...
Jan 26 2018 // The powerful earthquake that struck beneath the Gulf of Alaska early Tuesday generated a tsunami, but before gauges could show that it was very small, warnings went out to a vast swath of the state and British Columbia,...
Jan 24 2018 // A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck off Alaska’s Kodiak Island early Tuesday, prompting a tsunami warning for a large swath of the state’s coast and sending some residents fleeing to higher ground.Officials at...
Jan 4 2018 // The parents of a woman who died Jan. 1, 2017, are suing an Alaska nightclub, the Fairbanks Police Department and the Alaska Department of Corrections for sharing blame in the death of their daughter.The Fairbanks Daily...
Dec 22 2017 // Two insurance companies filed a lawsuit against the Kodiak Electric Association in Alaska claiming it was responsible for a fire that caused damage to clients’ property.Lexington Insurance Co. and Alaska Municipal...