Anglers have until noon today to try to take the lead away from Soldotna’s Kevin Daniel in the 54th annual Seward Silver Salmon derby.

A fight between two men in Chignik Lake ended with one of them dead and the other surrendering himself in to a village public safety officer, Alaska State Troopers said late Saturday.

A Minnesota doctor has died of injuries suffered in a fall at Mount Marathon and the man’s brother wants Seward to post more signs on the trail to warn climbers.

An Anchorage police officer struck and killed a pedestrian at a Midtown intersection early Saturday morning, police said.

The tomato that led me to Alison Arians appeared in a dream. It was a yellow heirloom. Voluptuous. Tender-skinned. Grown in the heat. I wanted to pick it, but it was just out of my reach.

Details of a racially motivated attack on a Native man in downtown Anchorage were released Friday as one of the accused assailants appeared in court to enter a not guilty plea.

An animal rights group wants Alaska to set a new course for wolf control after waging a years-long, high-profile fight with former Gov. Sarah Palin on the issue.

Anchorage police arrested and booked a robbery suspect into jail on Thursday without noticing he had a bullet wound in his back.

Anticipating that caribou hunters are reaching their quota of 480 animals, state biologists have closed hunting for caribou in the Fortymile herd accessible from the Steese and Taylor highways two days after it opened.

For Soldotna fishing guide Greg Brush, the rare and precious finally arrived — a summer day off between king and silver salmon seasons. But then the slightest noise — a twig snapping — prompted Brush to glance over his shoulder to see, less than 20 yards away, a brown bear charging.