Rep. Mary Peltola is in a close race against Republican Nick Begich III, who has criticized her on the state’s mining and drilling projects.

This summer, the church plans to hold a grand ceremony in Kwethluk, inviting pilgrims from across Alaska and from far-flung parts of the Orthodox world where icons bearing the name “Blessed Matushka Olga of Alaska” have become commonplace.

Sixty-eight-year-old Joseph Kashatok was convicted in February of retaining images of child sex abuse material on a USB device in 2019.

All six members of the caucus took to the stage during this year’s Alaska Federation of Natives annual convention in Anchorage.

Student athletes from across the western part of the state took to the mats in a unique tournament with pairing based on strength and ability and no team scores.

The two leading candidates in Alaska’s U.S. House election appeared at a forum hosted by the Anchorage Chamber.

The Bering Sea’s biggest and most lucrative crab fisheries opened last week, and so far, fishing is looking good.“Fishing has been very good for the [Bristol Bay red king crab] fleet this season and the crab delivered so far has been of high quality — new shell, large size, good meat-fill,” said Alaska Department of Fish and Game Area Management Biologist Ethan Nichols.

Charges against the young man involved in a fatal 2019 Unalaska car crash have been reduced, more than four years after he was originally indicted.Dustin Ruckman, who is now 23 years old, was originally charged in 2020 with two counts of manslaughter, two counts of criminally negligent homicide and one count of reckless driving. He now faces just two counts of criminally negligent homicide.

Alaska processor Trident Seafoods announced Monday that it probably won’t be processing crab in the Pribilof Island community of St. Paul this season. That comes after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s decision to reopen the snow crab or opilio fishery after a two-year closure. The state’s announcement on Friday surprised many fishermen. It was also a surprise to Trident.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Friday afternoon that Bering Sea fishermen will be allowed to harvest a total of about 4.7 million pounds of opilio, also known as snow crab, for the first time in two years. According to Fish and Game, estimates of total mature male biomass are above the threshold required to open the fishery.