News from The Anchorage Daily News

3 vie for lead in Yukon Quest International Sled Dog race

Feb 10, 2012 6:16 am

At the front of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dob race pack, GPS tracking problems left mushers and spectators uncertain of who was leading a three-man battle for the four…Click to Con...

Top 30 Iditarod mushers to split $550,000 purse this year

Feb 10, 2012 5:02 am

The top 30 mushers in this year's Iditarod will split a combined purse of roughly $550,000, the race director said Thursday.Click to Continue »

Church-owned housing measure has its first hearing

Feb 10, 2012 4:38 am

A measure that would wipe out some property tax breaks for church-owned housing got its first hearing Thursday before a state legislative committee, but it didn't advance.Click to Continue »

Koenig's abduction makes baristas' vulnerability real

Feb 10, 2012 3:21 am

Barista Samantha Koenig's abduction last week sent a shiver through the workers - most of them young and female-who spend their days in Anchorage's coffee shacks.Click to Continue »

Anchorage Alaska Headlines

Air Force general to visit Alaska planned F-16 move

Feb 10, 2012 7:08 am

The U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff plans to visit Alaska next week, and the state's congressional delegation hopes he will discuss with Alaskans a plan to move Eielson Air Force Base's F-16 fighter pla...

New poll shows Parnell and his policies get good ratings

Feb 10, 2012 2:58 am

A new poll shows almost 75 percent of Alaska voters believe Gov. Sean Parnell is doing a good job, with negative ratings from about 22 percent of responses in the survey.

'It's the production, stupid' Anchorage oil attorney argues

Feb 9, 2012 10:48 pm

Brad Keithley, an oil and gas attorney in Anchorage, gave a presentation last month to the Alaska Support Industry Alliance in which he quoted some columns of mine about a recent court decision on the...

Washington State Got Marriage Equality This Week - But Anchorage...

Feb 9, 2012 7:44 pm

Washington State Got Marriage Equality This Week - But Anchorage Doesn't Even Have Basic Civil Rights Protections for LGBT People Thirty-five years - that's how long they've been fighting for basic ci...

Freezing rain ices Anchorage roads; many schools canceled

Feb 9, 2012 4:29 pm

Freezing rain has iced roads around Anchorage, making driving dangerous Thursday morning.

School closures: S. Anchorage, Eagle River, Chugiak, Palmer

Feb 9, 2012 4:29 pm

The Anchorage School District says the following schools and bus routes are canceled today because of extremely icy and unsafe driving conditions: All bus routes, including special education, with pic...

Berrow children left in room open to 30-below temperature

Feb 9, 2012 2:20 pm

When police entered a Barrow apartment last week on a report of a child not breathing, they found a caregiver smelling of alcohol, two "extremely" hypothermic and naked children, and a child...

Competition isn't the answer in education

Feb 9, 2012 10:15 am

Former Mayor Fink states that "there is a strong belief good education comes from competition." The research I have seen shows very marginal gains on tests in certain private schools compare...

jury duty: Meeting Friends for $25 a Day

Feb 9, 2012 6:00 am

Because court rules prohibit photographing jurors at a trial, this is the only view that can be taken of the jury box - empty seats in the Homer Courthouse Where else in Homer can you get paid to sit ...

Oversight of tribal contracts lacking

Feb 9, 2012 5:00 am

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Supporters of a federal program that gives Alaska Native corporations a special edge worth billions of dollars in federal contracts said Wednesday that a U.S. government report fou...