Year: 2024

James Brooks, Alaska Beacon Officials with the U.S. Postal Service intercepted a threatening envelope sent to the Alaska Division of Elections on Tuesday, one of a number of similar packages…

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a…

James Brooks, Alaska Beacon The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a Republican plan to fund the federal government past Oct. 1 and avert a government…

On August 6, a glacial outburst flood from the Mendenhall Glacier led to record river highs and widespread flooding in Juneau’s most populated residential area. Nearly 290 residences were damaged…

A man who had stolen over $1,000 worth of items from Home Depot in multiple visits has been identified and arrested

The Texarkana City Board voted Monday to prohibit people from living in storage sheds after complaints arose about the issue

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that it tracked a group of Russian naval vessels as they crossed into U.S. waters off Alaska in an apparent…

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) — The weekend crash of a plane roughly a half-mile from a runway near the southwest Alaska community of St. Mary’s killed all four occupants on board…

By: James Brooks, Alaska Beacon Alaska’s first ranked choice presidential election will include eight candidates, according to the final roster approved by the Alaska Division of Elections. Because Alaska’s top-four…

A 60-year-old Arkansas doctor, Lonnie Joseph Parker, has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for illegally prescribing addictive drugs