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By: Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy, the largest U.S. icebreaker, is on its way to Alaska for the first of three Arctic scientific missions planned…

Juneau, Alaska, (KINY) – McGivney’s Sports Bar, located in the 4 Points Sheridan, officially closed its doors on Saturday. The original Mendenhall location remains open. Starwood Hotels and Resorts, acquired…

Father’s Day, celebrated on the third Sunday of June, can be traced back to the early 20th century in the United States. The first known Father’s Day service occurred on…

Earlier this week, milling operations commenced on the Douglas Highway as part of an ongoing two-season construction project. The work, scheduled from Monday, June 10, to Thursday, June 13, takes…

Seattle, Washington (AP) – The Makah, a tribe of 1,500 people on the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula, is the only Native American tribe with a treaty that specifically…

By: James Brooks, Alaska Beacon This March, the Monroe Catholic Rams were among the four best large boys’ high school basketball teams in Alaska. For some supporters, that isn’t enough….

By: Nathaniel Hertz, Northern Journal In May, the Alaska Legislature narrowly rejected a conservative talk radio host’s appointment to a highly paid position regulating the state’s commercial fisheries. Now, after…

By: Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon As the climate warms, more Pacific salmon from Alaska are showing up in the Western Arctic waters of Canada. But residents in those Arctic Canadian…

Juneau, Alaska (AP) — Environmental groups on Wednesday petitioned the U.S. Department of Interior to review climate impacts related to the decades-old trans-Alaska pipeline system and develop a plan for…

Anchorage Superior Court Judge Adolph Zeman’s recent 33-page decision declaring two key homeschool statutes unconstitutional is riddled with errors of fact and law.  The bottom line is this:  The statutes…