That was close. At least for a while. Oregon State women’s basketball avoided an upset loss to Division II Alaska Anchorage on Sunday at Gill Coliseum, going on a 15-3 run to end the game and beat the visiting Seawolves,

Alaska's legislative auditor says her team identified 85 issues in the 2024 fiscal year audit. That’s about double what auditors found a decade ago.

No one died in Washington, though four members of the McKinzie family from Tacoma drowned while camping on a beach in Newport, Oregon. A woman in Gearhart, Oregon, died of a heart attack after a wave hit her home, and 11 people died in Crescent City, California. The quake and tsunami killed 115 people in Alaska.

Federal lease sales in Alaska will now revert to a framework developed in 2020 by the Trump administration that had opened most of the Coastal Plain to oil and gas development. In October, the Interior Department said it would move to restore lease sales to the entire Coastal Plain as part of Trump's U.S. energy dominance agenda.

Earlier this month, the Alaska Landmine said on social media Dorene Lorenz used a state grant to restore a historic building "for herself." Lorenz says that crossed a line.

Iconic heavy metal band Twisted Sister will play the 2026 Alaska State Fair, the fair announced Thursday. The band will arrive in Alaska as part of its worldwide Twisted Forever, Forever Twisted 50th anniversary tour.

John Malone, one of the wealthiest people in the United States, is preparing to take control of a majority of GCI Liberty’s voting power.