RENO, Nev. (AP) - Five people are dead after a small plane crashed this afternoon in a pasture near the northern Nevada town of Gardnerville. All five people were aboard the twin-engine Beechcraft BE...
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The high court sent the case back to the commission "to conduct further proceedings and make a determination on the merits of the reasonableness of AWWU's proposed rate increase."
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by Channel 2 News staffSaturday, May 9, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Flood warnings are in effect for many communities across the state for the Kuskowim Delta from Akiak to Napakiak. Bethel also has a fl...
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by Channel 2 News staffSaturday, May 9, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Massive ice chunks left by a violent breakup on the Yukon River continue to cut off the old village of Eagle from the town of Eagle. T...
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by April YoungSaturday, May 9, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An elderly man is recovering after police say he drove his car into an East Anchorage post office. The accident happened Saturday afternoon at ...
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by April YoungSaturday, May 9, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- People worry about their family homes and pets during disasters, and on Saturday locals learned how to handle animals during an emergency. The ...
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by Channel 2 News staffSaturday, May 9, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- High school juniors and seniors geared up for the "America's Next Top Auto Technician" contest on Saturday. Students from five sch...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A 19-year-old man is under arrest after leading Alaska State Troopers on a highway chase in a car with no tires. Troopers say 19-year-old Rytter King did not have permission ...
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by Leyla SantiagoSaturday, May 9, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- President Barack Obama wants to cut the funding of about 100 programs on the federal payroll, including the Denali Commission. Obama says th...
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by Yvonne LaVoieSaturday, May 9, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Donations for people impacted by flooding in Eagle continue to pour in. Everts Air Cargo out of Fairbanks delivered 10,000 pounds of clothing...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Elders and pregnant women have been evacuated from a flooded Kuskokwim River village. Bryan Fisher, an incident commander with the state Division of Homeland Safety and Emerg...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama poked fun at himself and the Washington establishment Saturday night. Obama spoke at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. He took playfu...
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SEATTLE (AP) - Washington state health officials say a man in his 30s is the first person in the state to die from what appears to be complications of swine flu. The state Department of Health says i...
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Thousands of residents of Santa Barbara, Calif., are back in their homes after a blanket of cool, moist ocean air helped tame a wind-driven wildfire. Eighty homes have be...
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont Democrats say President Barack Obama is being soft on prosecuting former Bush administration officials over torture, electronic spying and other matters. A resolution b...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA has cleared space shuttle Atlantis for a Monday launch to the Hubble Space Telescope. Mission managers met Saturday and concluded that Atlantis is ready to take off o...
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Officials have confirmed a body found in the north Georgia woods is that of a professor wanted for killing his wife and two other people at a community theater two weeks ago. Offic...
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Authorities say 12 people have been injured in a pleasure boat explosion in Florida's Tampa Bay. Capt. Mark Bogush of Tampa Fire Rescue says six adults and six children were aboard...
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DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) - NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield has been suspended indefinitely after failing a random drug test. The result stems from a test last weekend at Richmond International Raceway. N...
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by the Associated PressFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An ethics complaint filed against Gov. Sarah Palin has been dismissed. The complaint was dismissed Friday by the state Personnel Board. ...
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Police believe they've found the body of a University of Georgia professor who's accused of killing his wife and two other people at a community theater two weeks ago. Athens-Clark...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Exxon Mobil says it has begun drilling at Alaska's Point Thomson oil and gas field. Patrick McGinn, a company spokesman, says drilling operations were launched Friday. In Fe...
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration says it will launch impact studies this month for an Angoon airport proposed by the state. The FAA says the agency will look at possible impa...
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Fairbanks police are looking into the death of a 56-year-old woman whose bruised body was found inside her apartment. Norma Attla of Fairbanks was found dead Thursday and pol...
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Evacuees from Santa Barbara's wildfire are cheering news they'll soon get to return to their homes thanks to a misty California morning. Shortly before authorities announ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder offers this advice for Howard University law school graduates: devote part of your career to public service. At their commencement Saturday in Washingto...
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Yet here they are, this unlikely crew on the journey of their lives, propelled by a spectacular run at the Kentucky Derby that took 50-1 longshot Mine That Bird from obscurity to champion for the ages...
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by Rebecca PalshaFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The worst might be over, but the flooding continues in the interior. Friday night communities along the Yukon River braced for flood waters an...
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SOMERSWORTH, N.H. (AP) - A 3-year-old New Hampshire boy was left alone on a school bus this week when the driver did not notice the youngster after delivering other kids to preschool. Chris Castano s...
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HOUSTON (AP) - Authorities say a 7-year-old boy has died after he and three others were allegedly shot by a couple who thought they were trespassing on their Texas property. Liberty County Sheriff's ...
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - The University of Notre Dame has agreed to pay some of the costs local police departments will face for helping provide security during next weekend's visit by President Barack...
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The National Park Service says a 61-year old climber from upstate New York has died while climbing Mount McKinley in Alaska.The park service says William Hearne of Fairport, New York, died Thursday wh...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A New York rabbi convicted of molesting his daughter has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Monsey rabbi Israel Weingarten was found guilty in March of abusing his daughter through...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Get ready to shell out a couple more pennies to mail a letter. Starting Monday, the cost of a stamp goes up to 44 cents. Those who bought Forever stamps before Monday's increase wil...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Even the homeless can't escape the high price of a night in New York City. City officials this month began charging rent to some families staying in homeless shelters. The policy app...
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ST. LOUIS - Another batch of storms is lining up from Arkansas and northern Mississippi across Tennessee and Kentucky a day after violent weather swept through the Midwest killing five people and dama...
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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., will return a $1,000 campaign donation from Citigroup, the banking giant that has received $45 billion in federal bailout money. Carolyn Dwyer, Leahy...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Missouri Sen. Kit Bond says that President Barack Obama's plan to close the Guantanamo detention center "is a dangerous case of putting symbolism over security." In the GOP's weekly...
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - The Detroit Pistons say former coach Chuck Daly is dead at age 78. The team said Daly, who coached the United States to the 1992 Olympic gold medal after winning back-to-ba...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is pushing Congress to send him legislation by Memorial Day that would put a tighter rein on the credit card industry. In his weekly Internet and radio addres...
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ST. LOUIS (AP) - Missouri's governor is set to tour areas damaged by yesterday's powerful storms in the Midweast and South. Residents are cleaning up after the storms splintered homes, knocked out po...
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - A cool sea breeze is providing relief for firefighters battling a blaze that's destroyed scores of homes in California's Santa Barbara County. But there's concern that dr...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - It'll be another night on the town for the president and first lady. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle will attend the annual White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday n...
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LITITZ, Pa. (AP) - A Pennsylvania high school ordered more than 450 shot glasses for its prom, a move the assistant principal now says sent the wrong message. As the Warwick High School students left...
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by Jason MooreFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- There will be no special protections for polar bears, at least not from the Obama administration. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday...
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by Ted LandFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Mayor-elect Dan Sullivan is assembling his transition team. He met with acting-Mayor Matt Claman Friday afternoon. They presented the transition rep...
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by Leyla SantiagoFriday, May 8, 2009 PORTAGE GLACIER HIGHWAY, Alaska -- Cars and trucks are passing through the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel to Whittier again, but only for a few hours a day. The tu...
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by Channel 2 News staffFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- After a four-year legal case, the ruling is in: Anchorage Water & Wastewater Utility ratepayers will not receive a refund. That'...
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by Jason LambFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Volunteers were gearing Friday up for the annual Creek Cleanup planned for the weekend. Come Saturday morning, dozens of volunteers will be out en...
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by Ashton GoodellFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Trash talking and dumpster diving was the main attraction at the Alaska Zoo Friday. Zookeepers let the brown and black bears at the zoo test t...
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by Channel 2 News staffFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Frontier Airlines has returned to the Last Frontier. The airline started seasonal service to Anchorage Friday with one daily nonstop fli...
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by Lori TiptonFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - More than 70,000 veterans live in Alaska, and many are not signed up to receive military benefits. But a veteran's outreach group is trying to...
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by Channel 2 News staffFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A whale of a story from Alaska is about to hit Hollywood. The movie is based on the 1988 rescue of three California gray whales found tra...
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by Channel 2 News staffFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In a poll conducted by Channel 2 News Friday, May 8, 2009, respondents were asked if they agreed with the Interior Department's deci...
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by Rhonda McBrideFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Break-up on Alaska's rivers is bringing more water, more ice and more trouble. A number of communities on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers e...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Prolific screen and television writer John Furia Jr., who penned popular series including "Bonanza," "The Waltons," and "Hawaii Five-O" among many others, has died, according to a s...
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BOSTON (AP) - Right whales have plenty to celebrate this Mother's Day - the sea moms gave birth to a record 39 calves this spring. The New England Aquarium said Friday that the birth surge breaks the...
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MONROE, La. (AP) - If you're going to buy something with a forged cashier's check, don't misspell "cashier's" or use an FBI office as your shipping address. Police in Monroe, La., say they arrested a...
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PIEDMONT, Calif. (AP) - Police in Piedmont, Calif., say no charges will be filed in connection with the discovery of the decomposed body of an elderly woman in her Bay Area home. The body of Patricia...
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ST. LOUIS (AP) - At least five people are dead from a string of destructive storms that have peppered wide parts of the Midwest, knocking out power to more than 100,000 homes and businesses and causin...
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Fire officials have more than doubled their estimate of how many acres have burned in a wildfire raging along mountain slopes above Santa Barbara. The Department of Fores...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Court watchers say the chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court is highly regarded in judicial circles and President Barack Obama would be wise to take a close look at her in...
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by The Associated PressFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Authorities are looking for a man who robbed an Anchorage bank Friday. The FBI says the man held up the First National Bank Alaska on No...
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - A few Juneau residents are showing their displeasure with tour buses driving on narrow city streets by putting up "STOP LOCAL TOURS" sings. Residents complain the buses create...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Alaska State Troopers are cautioning drivers on the Seward Highway to keep their eyes out for pedestrian traffic from people parked along the highway for dipnetting. The di...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Miss California USA pageant says its co-directors plan to address whether current title holder Carrie Prejean will hold onto her crown amid allegations of contract violations. ...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A 61-year-old climber from New York has died on Alaska's Mount McKinley. William Hearne, of Fairport, N.Y., died after he collapsed while ascending the West Buttress route ...
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Authorities say four teenagers at a Florida school have been charged with sexually assaulting a member of their flag football team with a broomstick and a hockey stick. The Hillsbo...
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NEW YORK (AP) - AT&T Inc. is buying the assets of Verizon Wireless in 79 mainly rural areas for $2.35 billion. Verizon Wireless is forced to sell the service areas, which are spread over 18 state...
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BOSTON (AP) - Two trolleys have crashed between two underground stations in downtown Boston, and at least 10 people are reported injured. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority spokesman Joe Pesa...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Navy says the number of sailors with swine flu now has jumped to 18 from just a handful earlier this week. Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. John M. Daniels says the number spiked when 1...
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PHOENIX (AP) - The latest AAA fuel gauge report show gasoline prices in Arizona are now the lowest in the nation, while they are the highest in Alaska. The AAA says drivers here paid an average of ...
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by Scott JensenFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- About a dozen elders and children will be evacuated Friday from the Yukon River village of Beaver. The evacuation to Fairbanks comes ahead of la...
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Warren Buffett's company reported a $1.5 billion first-quarter loss as it wrote down its ConocoPhillips investment and unrealized derivative losses helped drag Berkshire Hathaway's ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A former New York state senator has pleaded guilty to fraud charges, admitting that he used charity groups to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars. Efrain Gonzalez entered the plea ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - There's a growing body of research that suggests at least 10% of children with autism can "recover" from it, most of them after undergoing years of intensive behavioral therapy. Skepti...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, are attending a parent-teacher conference at their older daughter's school. The Obamas left the White House on Friday afternoon for th...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The top U.S. general in Iraq is hedging his bets about whether U.S. combat troops will pull out of the volatile city of Mosul on schedule next month. Gen. Raymond Odierno says U.S. ...
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by The Associated PressFriday, May 8, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- About 150 Anchorage city employees have agreed to 62 hours of unpaid furlough this year to help the city trim its budget. The Internatio...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama plans to deliver a speech in Egypt on U.S. relations with the Muslim world when he sets out on an overseas trip next month. The White House says Obama also wi...
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - A wildfire is scorching the edges of Santa Barbara, threatening to destroy dozens more homes and forcing thousands to flee. More than 20,000 people have been ordered to l...
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ROME (AP) - Italian police say a visiting American art student has confessed to killing a man in Florence. An investigator says the student, 24-year-old Jonathan Hindenach of Michigan, had been exper...
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Authorities say one person was killed and a church collapsed in southeast Kansas as heavy thunderstorms swept through the region. Details were not immediately available on the dea...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Verizon Wireless has shortened the period in which it demands exclusive rights to new cell phones from LG and Samsung, to give small rural carriers a better chance to sell up-to-date p...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says there have been "somewhat encouraging" improvements in the country's stricken labor markets but that the rate of joblessness is "still a sobering toll." ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks are higher midday as investors find relief in better-than-expected jobs data and confirmation that big banks don't need as much capital as feared. Bank shares are mostly higher...
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EAGLE - An ice jam near Eagle that caused heavy flooding and knocked several buildings off their foundations has broken, allowing the swollen Yukon River to recede, authorities said.
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MICHAEL PENN / JUNEAU EMPIRE U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Anthony Alito talks with Alaska Supreme Court Justice Walter "Bud" Carpeneti and his wife, Anne, during a banquet of the Alaska Bar Assoc...
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EAGLE, Alaska (AP) - There has been flooding of low-lying areas in the community of Fort Yukon from ice jams on the Yukon River. Water levels rose to about four feet above flood stage Thursday evenin...
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FAIRBANKS - The Alaska Federation of Natives annual convention, believed to be the biggest gathering of Natives in the state, is returning to Fairbanks.
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Alaska's oldest fair is going back to its roots. Hoping to turn the tide on four straight years of financial losses, managers of the Tanana Valley Fair in Fairbanks says it's...
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Rising health care costs are battering Alaska's public employee retirement programs at the same time a declining stock market is making those retirements more difficult to pay for, according to new st...
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ANCHORAGE - A former Alaska legislator will be the Department of Interior's special assistant for the state. The Interior Secretary on Thursday appointed Pat Pourchot as special assistant for Alaska ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - As one astronaut puts it, "Hubble needs a hug." Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of 7 plan to make a house call to the ailing Hubble telescope. They lift off Monday tot...
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Juneau Douglas' Hannah Massey slides into third base past Sitka's Katie Hagan during Thursday's 11-1 victory at Melvin Park. JDHS plays Colony tonight and Saturday morning.
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Two teenagers died Wednesday after their canoe capsized north of Haines while traveling to Skagway. The bodies of Jared Todd Henderson, 19, and Alan Leroy Dennis, 17, both of Haines, were discovered ...
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KETCHIKAN - Work has begun on a six-mile road through Tongass National Forest after a federal judge refused to stop it. The road will allow access for the Orion North Reoffer Timber Sale, which offer...
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Although residents may not need a specified day to appreciate Alaska's capital city, Juneau Appreciation Day has become a growing tradition in the downtown area.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Move over, baby Emily. Emma is the new top name among baby girls, ending Emily's 12-year reign. The Social Security Administration said Friday that Jacob remained king among the boy...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Fannie Mae says it needs $19 billion in additional government aid after posting a loss of $23.2 billion in the first quarter as the taxpayer bill from the housing market bust mounts....
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Julia O'Malley writes a general interest column about life and politics in Anchorage and around Alaska.
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... on the Seward Highway early Saturday. Troopers say an officer tried to stop the driver near mile 102 south of Anchorage and the vehicle pulled over, then rammed the officer's car and collided with another vehicle. Troopers say King's car then sped ...
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The Alaska Supreme Court has sided with Anchorage in a battle with the state over water and sewer rates.
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... Eric Croft: Would-be mayor runs hard, but it was too far uphill. Any openings in city prosecutor's office? EVEN -- Anchorage School Board: Hey! Look what we found! $11 million to spend! Nice surprise, but voters get suspicious when money turns up ...
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... politicians fell to the principle in politics that reads, it is better to be for something than against something. Anchorage Mayor-elect Dan Sullivan seems to have transcended that rule. For most of Sullivan's time on the Assembly he was for the ...
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... The series opener was the first Aces game Charron has refereed this season. New York Rangers center Scott Gomez of Anchorage, the two-time Stanley Cup winner who played for the Aces in 2004-05 during the NHL lockout, dropped the ceremonial first ...
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... She was sporting a team T-shirt. Galiano was one of hundreds of city residents participating Saturday in the Anchorage Waterways Council's annual Creek Cleanup at 17 locations from Eagle River to Girdwood. The good news: Initial reports are that the ...
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... with her bosses 24 percent of the time. Real Alaskans don't take orders. NOT UPLIFTING ... Andree McLeod , the Anchorage activist who's usually busy second-guessing the governor's ethics, is unhappy with the way some state workers dress. In an ...
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... if the bruises were the result of an assault. The body has been sent to the state medical examiner's office in Anchorage for an autopsy. Police Lt. Jim Geier says there's nothing else to indicate a possible homicide. Showing: @Nyx.AuthorDisplayName@ ...
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... located on his website. Shane's expertise is electronics, computing, and the internet. During his tour of duty in Anchorage, Alaska, the U.S. Air Force named him 'Airman of the Year.' You can check Gondwana out at www.GondwanaPress.com , or Eric ...
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... back down to the end of the road. The aptly named "End of the Road Brevet" is the brainchild of Kevin Turinsky, an Anchorage cyclist who heads up the Alaska Randonneurs, a group that organizes several similar, sometimes much longer brevets -- or ...
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Playing in doubleheaders on consecutive days against Anchorage titans Dimond and Service , the Homer Lady Mariner softball team opened with a bang, surprising Dimond 6-1 in the first game Friday at Karen Hornaday Park.
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... on the Seward Highway early Saturday. Troopers say an officer tried to stop the driver near mile 102 south of Anchorage and the vehicle pulled over, then rammed the officer's car and collided with another vehicle. Troopers say King's car then sped ...
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... Officials say his body will be retrieved later by helicopter. Mount McKinley is the highest peak in North America. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The National Park Service says a 61-year old climber from upstate New York has died while climbing Mount ...
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... which alleged Palin violated ethics rules by accepting outside employment with her political action committee. Anchorage resident Sondra Tompkins, who filed the complaint in April, also alleged Palin participated in partisan activities when she ...
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... on Friday, ethics complaint filed was dismissed by the Alaska Personnel Board. The complaint was filed in April by Anchorage resident Sondra Tompkins, who alleged Palin violated ethics rules by accepting outside employment with her political action ...
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... called the complaint ironic, given criticism in the capital city that she runs state government primarily from the Anchorage area. "We've been slammed if we're not here enough, but now the table's turned and the message is we're creating chaos ...
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... road, according to troopers. No one suffered any serious injuries, troopers said. The teenager, Rytter N. King of Anchorage, was drinking and had a revoked driver's license, troopers said. He was charged with numerous offenses and is in the ...
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... to the co-chairs of the Finance Committees in the state House and Senate, Reps. Mike Hawker and Bill Stoltze, both Anchorage Republicans, and Sens. Bert Stedman, a Sitka Republican, and Lyman Hoffman, a Bethel Democrat. Without controversy these ...
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... winners in the ASAA 2009 State Solo and Ensemble Music Festival. More comes at 7 p.m. Saturday, when the Anchorage Concert Chorus's 19th Annual Winners' Recital takes place in the UAA Fine Arts Building recital hall. Book closing on writers' ...
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