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The animal that became known as Gary runs down Northern Lights Boulevard at Spenard Road on Oct. 3. (Andy Romang)

The third floor of the Alaska State Capitol houses the governor's offices. (Marc Lester / ADN) In a rare exercise of a little-used executive power, Alaska Gov.

Dec. 6—In a rare exercise of a little-used executive power, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has granted clemency to five people convicted of long-ago drug- and alcohol-related crimes. In a written statement the day before Thanksgiving, Dunleavy said that he had pardoned William V. May for a 1999 charge of driving while intoxicated; Richard A. Vicknair for a 1970 drug sale charge; Daniel J. Smith for ...

Angela Hall's marriage puts her in a rare category: Those who marry inmates who may never get out of prison. But far more common in America is the experience of having an incarcerated loved one.

New data from the Anchorage Police Department shows that 2023, rather than being an anomaly, may have been the beginning of a persistent rise in outside deaths among Anchorage’s homeless population.

“As soon as he told me he’d recommended me for a federal judgeship, he started asking me to send him nude photos,” the prosecutor said in a statement to investigators unsealed Monday.

“As soon as he told me he’d recommended me for a federal judgeship, he started asking me to send him nude photos,” the prosecutor said in a statement to investigators unsealed Dec. 9.

Dan Demott died Nov. 5, 2018 when he hid in a freezing, flooded crawlspace during a standoff in which Anchorage police bombarded his house with tear gas and other "less lethal" weapons.

(iStock / Getty Images) The rate of mothers suffering obstetric hemorrhages — severe and potentially life-threatening bleeding during or

A 47-foot fin whale that washed up on Anchorage’s tidal mudflats in November is still drawing visitors, a month later. Why?