By Laurel Andrews: Man dies after canoe on commercial tour overturns in Southeast Alaska
By CBS News: Hotshot with ties to AK dies in fire near Yosemite
By Tegan Hanlon: Popular Eagle River trailhead reopened after fatal mauling
By Associated Press: Explosive material removed from lake near Sitka
By Derek Minemyer: Residents fed up with transient camp near Central Lutheran Church
By Associated Press: Daughter’s suit against ‘Deadliest Catch’ star can proceed
By Daniella Rivera: Fish & Game urges residents to secure trash in wake of limited enforcement
Alaska Waste says Monday that some of the bear-resistant cans on Bolin Street are several years old, and bears are likely able to get into them now due to natural wear and tear. They have newer models available for customers and will deliver them if requested.
Coach shifts focus from cancer to the field
By Associated Press: State wants hunters to submit animal heads for monitoring of bacterium
By Joe Vigil: Businesses prepare for the loss of REI in Spenard
By Joe Vigil: Businesses prepare for the loss of REI in Spenard
By Scott Gross: Walker inks education bill that redirects marijuana tax money
By Steve Quinn: Permanent Fund reports almost 11% annual boost
By Tegan Hanlon: Iditarod adds fifth new board member
By Bob Hallinen: Humpback whales put on a bubble-net feeding show in Southeast Alaska
By Laurel Downing Bill: Story Time with Aunt Phil: Alaska’s first car
Have you ever been kicked off an airline or subjected to other abuse? How do you feel about airlines arbitrarily kicking passengers off the plane for someone else’s convenience? Alaska Airlines reasoning does not make sense. Alaska Airlines is not denying they screwed with them. Two people want to sit together, irregardless of their relationship and gender (best friends, family, co-workers, etc.), they have paid extra for their premium seating they should not have been subjected to the abuse.
By CBS News: Alaska Airlines: Gay couple separated, seats given to straight couple
One Alaska Update Gov. Walker: July 30, 2018
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Alaska News July 30, 2018
By Leroy Polk: UPDATE: Meineke window damage now a shooting investigation
By Michelle Theriault Boots: Charges: Men rode ferry to Alaska with 33 pounds of meth in a backpack
By Michelle Theriault Boots: Troopers pull over Fairbanks felon and find body armor, illegal handguns
By Daniella Rivera: Black bears outsmart bear-proof cans in East Anchorage
By Liz Raines: Hillside Assemblyman weighs in on Anchorage’s bear problem
“I think there is some enforcement,” Weddleton said. “But their typical thing, they’ll go and do a warning first. And say, ‘hey you’ve got to pick it up.’ But they can fine, first offense, $50 to $200 and then the second offense, I think can go up to $600, so it can be significant. And I think you’ll see more.”
The Anchorage Assembly has scheduled a work session on the topic for August 10 at 1 p.m. at City Hall.
By Shannon Ballard: Harvesting Alaska: New research could change seaweed rules
By Sean Maguire: Firearms instructor encourages safe gun storage after deadly accidental shooting
Simonson is also skeptical that more legislation is the answer. “It’s kind of hard to enforce common sense, you either have it or you don’t.”
By Liz Raines: Firearms specialist talks safe gun storage after child’s accidental death
Gun owners in Alaska can get a free gun lock, through national programs like Project Child Safe. For more information, click here.
By Michelle Theriault Boots: A bear attacked this man’s vintage sports car in Girdwood. He’s being pretty cool about it.
By Michelle Theriault Boots: In a dysfunctional Midtown Anchorage park, a microcosm of problems and possibilities
By Beth Bragg: Young swimmer breaks Alaska record set 35 years ago by her mother
By Annie Zak: Q&A: Premera CEO is optimistic about Alaska health insurance rates
By Charles Wohlforth: This family made it on fried fish and hard work
By Tegan Hanlon: Kebabs to casserole to quiche: 14 camp meal ideas from ADN readers and staff
Alaska News July 29, 2018
By Victoria Taylor: AST: Man arrested after hitting flagger in work zone and driving off
By Matt Tunseth: Another local government in Alaska, Valdez, has been knocked offline by a computer virus
By Matt Tunseth: Half-dozen arrested in North Pole shooting death
By Sean Maguire: Officials paint bleak picture for public safety in the Mat-Su Valley
By Kalinda Kindle: UPDATE: Marijuana retailer Cannabaska reopens after reports of unpaid taxes, improper disposal of waste
By Dave Leval: Neighbors hope park’s cleaning deters crime
By Matt Tunseth: Troopers write flurry of citations for Kenai dipnet fishing violations
By Associated Press: Juneau mayor not seeking re-election; 2 more join race
By Laurel Andrews: How a retired geologist discovered a long lost Air Force crash in the Alaska Range
By Beth Bragg: At Crow Pass Crossing, Christy Marvin and the Lady Train put on a show
By Beth Bragg: Scott Patterson toes the line and captures 5th Crow Pass victory
By Kalinda Kindle: New artwork symbolizes unity between United States and Russia
Rasmuson Foundation: Launching a campaign for Alaska children’s center
Alaska News July 28, 2018
By Liz Thomas: 1 dead after shots fired in W. Anchorage
By Tegan Hanlon: It will take weeks for the Mat-Su Borough to restore all of its services after cyber attack
By Chris Klint: Girdwood brown bear killed by Fish and Game
By Tegan Hanlon: Video: Bear sprints past parked planes at Anchorage’s airport
By Chris Klint: Sterling Hwy contractor claims no involvement in fatal rock fall
By Mike Ross: Boy Scout troop hit by burglary
By Devin Kelly: Cannabis scraps on ground near dumpster trigger harsh punishment from Alaska regulators
By Devin Kelly: The tricky task of policing marijuana odors at Anchorage pot businesses
Alaska Cares: Providence Alaska Foundation seeks community support for abuse response service
By Makayla Clark: Multi-million dollar hanger under construction at the airport
By Jack Carney: Millennials are the most likely generation to use public libraries
By Cameron Mackintosh: Full sail on the frontier: Family of 6 prepares for long voyage through the Northwest Passage
South Anchorage Farmer’s Market: Flowers, Veggies, Berries, Oh My!
Alaska News July 27, 2018
By Liz Thomas: 1 injured in Thursday Mt. View shooting
By Daniella Rivera: Prosecutor seeks serial rapist’s notes, taped confessions
By Chris Klint: Woman denies claiming dozens of fraudulent PFDs
By Scott Gross: AMCO drops the hammer on marijuana licensee, revokes handler permit
By Heather Hintze: FBI helping Mat-Su Borough with massive computer virus
By Annie Zak: Commercial fishing closed in Bristol Bay district as fuel spreads from sunken vessel
By Anchorage Daily News: Popular Kenai River dipnet salmon fishery to close early
By Laurel Andrews: 2 young bears ‘paw’ at people in first physical bear-human contact at Katmai in 20 years
By Kyle Hopkins: ‘I don’t just hear it, I feel it’: A conversation about Anchorage crime with Mayor Berkowitz
By Lauen Maxwell: ASD wants to make parents pay for kids’ vandalism
Should parents be responsible for kids’ vandalism?
By Devin Kelly: Take a tour of some of Anchorage’s newest murals See them on Fairbanks Street downtown, at Romig Middle School or when you’re driving down the Glenn Highway.
By Beth Bragg: Crow Pass race returns with new start time and new safety measure – and runners eager to set records
By John Thompson: Watch out for motorcycles; ABATE takes motorists to school
By Cassie Schirm: 24th annual Dog Jog includes Dog Yoga
By Victoria Taylor: Girl Scouts of Alaska thriving amid national enrollment decline
By Cameron Mackintosh: Longtime Alaska sailing instructor receives national award
The Associated Press: NTSB: Anchorage pilot’s poor judgment caused fatal 2016 crash in Oregon air show
By John Tracy: Reality Check: What stolen guns?
By Charles Wohlforth: Native memory: Rewriting Alaska history with the word ‘genocide’
By Julia O’Malley: How Alaska Eats: How to find fresh salmon and rule the sourdough pancake universe
Alaska News July 26, 2018
By Daniella Rivera: Serial rapist arrested with rope in Anchorage woman’s back yard
By Leroy Polk: Alaska village teen missing for weeks, last seen ‘highly intoxicated,’ authorities say
By Leroy Polk: VIDEO: Anchorage man fights police, tased multiple times in takedown, arrest caught on camera
By Chris Klint: Black bear killed after Eagle River garage break-in
By Chris Klint: Muni, marijuana shop lock horns over locked dumpster
By Daniel Kirby: Mat-Su Borough taken offline by “computer virus”
By Daniel Kirby: Fairbanks North Star Borough impacted by ransomware attack on third-party billing agency
By Beth Verge: APD unveils new door tag system to help eliminate caller unknowns
By Jack Carney: More fish scraps left on the Kenai beaches means more seagull waste
By Richared Mauer: Voting in Alaska will change in 2020 — how different will it be?
By Erica Martinson: Murkowski a hard ‘no’ on Trump’s $12 billion farm tariff bailout plan
By Associated Press: Marijuana business signs lease to open store in Bethel
By Devin Kelly: Should Anchorage get a new official seal? An assemblyman and the mayor say it’s time
Have an idea for a new municipal seal for Anchorage that better represents the city’s history and culture? Tell us about it or send a photo of your suggestion to newstips@adn.com.
By Elwood Brehmer, Alaska Journal of Commerce: State set to christen first of two long-awaited new Alaska-class ferries
By Derek Minemyer: Airbnb benefits Alaska, one local host says, but is it worth the risk?
By Annie Zak: The recession will likely be over for Anchorage by early 2019, AEDC predicts
By Scott Gross: New contracts not likely for ASD’s new school year
By Daybreak Staff: The Gap Program gives free school supplies for children
By Jackie Purcell: Only in Alaska: Lost luggage returned to mountaintop passenger by helicopter
By Megan Mazurek: Learn to use all salmon parts from head-to-tail
By Daybreak Staff: Fossil Fuel’s donuts give natural, plant-based energy
By Jessica Merzdorf, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center: Fires, floods and satellite views: Modeling the Boreal forest’s future
By Tegan Hanlon: People on the Peninsula: The peony pioneer Rita Jo Shoultz started Alaska’s first peony farm.
By Tegan Hanlopn: People on the Peninsula: The baby Anchorage resident Rachel Andrews wanted to show her friends and family Exit Glacier. Then, the unexpected happened.
By Tegan Hanlon: People on the Peninsula: The antler dealer Tom Cooper has spent decades carving antlers while sitting in a chair in a tiny, cluttered room in the back of his shop.
Alaska News July 25, 2018
By Joe Vigil: APD seeks 1 domestic violence suspect, arrests another
By Leroy Polk: UPDATE: Guardian of young girl located, police say
By Daniel Kirby: Wasilla man arrested for attempted murder of woman in cemetery
By Heather Hintze: Grunwald murder defense hopes to exclude cell data from trial
By Derek Minemyer: Anchorage District Attorney says Sunday’s hit-and-run highlights Alaska’s alcohol problem
By Daniella Rivera: Meet the Pretrial Enforcement Division’s new director
By Lauren Maxwell: School resource officers hit the road in summer
By Rebecca Palsha: Shipping company to cover cost of replacement playground equipment after arson
By Kalinda Kindle: 2YH: Personalizing medicine through 3D printing
By Liz Raines: Funding offers snapshot of Alaska governor’s race
By Erica Martinson: Alaska Native corporations are a billion dollars deep in border control contracts
By Devin Kelly: Candidates work to gain attention in unusual summer Anchorage Assembly election
To get information on how to vote in the special election, visit the Anchorage city clerk’s website.
By Scott Gross: Eagle River’s proposed Vet Village gains wider attention
By Charles Wohlforth: Native memory: How a kid from New Jersey helped save Dena’ina culture
By Steve Edwards: It’s the best time of year to visit an Alaska farmers market. Here are 9 items to check out.
By Kari Bustamante: 6th Annual Beer and Bacon Festival kicks off Saturday
By Emily Carlson: Poll: Most Alaskans understand or back reduced PFD
By Leroy Polk: Michigan town elects cat as mayor, echoing Talkeetna cat ‘mayor’ Stubbs
By Marc Lester: People on the Peninsula: The poncho manager A deckhand said passengers feed off the crew’s enthusiasm for Kachemak Bay.
By Tegan Hanlon: People on the Peninsula: The deckhand Deckhand Willie Nelson (yes, that’s his real name) remembers how hard it was to find his first job on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska about six years ago.
By Tegan Hanlon: People on the Peninsula: The river crosser
As the ferry’s deckhand, Daniel Thornton, a 21-year-old from Atlanta, spends the day on the Kenai River traveling back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
Alaska News July 24, 2018
By Michelle Theriault Boots: Woman stabs man during argument near busy Anchorage highway intersection
By Laurel Andrews: Woman charged with DUI, manslaughter, in Sterling motorcycle collision
By Chris Klint: Officer struck in arrest of frequent APD suspect
By Mary Simton: 6 stolen guns seized after Jim Creek gunfire
By Sean Maguire: AST continues investigating truck driver involved in death of an 8-year-old
By Daniella Rivera: APD addresses gangs after Mountain View murder
By Marc Lester: 100 people gather to remember teen on the Mountain View street where he was killed
By Leroy Polk: Experimental floatplane flips, overturns in Alaska lake
By Associated Press: Woman who died in Juneau gets grave marker 100 years later
By Heather Hintze: DOT plans sweep of illegal campaign signs
The property owner with an illegal sign or the people placing illegal signs are subject to a $50 fine per sign collected during the DOT sweep.
More information about state rights-of-ways and campaigns signs can be found here.
By Lauren Maxwell: Anchorage doctor offers digest of food safety report
By Kalinda Kindle: Hillside singletrack in the works, but future riders cautioned to be aware of bears
By Laurel Downing Bill: Story Time with Aunt Phil: sourdough preacher turned painter
By Tegan Hanlon: People on the Peninsula: The Spit campers The family of four spends all summer in a tent on the Homer Spit. They sell firewood to other campers.
By Tegan Hanlon: People on the Peninsula: The paddleboarder Even in February and even in temperatures around 15 degrees, Stephanie Zuniga will still put on her wetsuit and head out to the water.
By Tegan Hanlon: People on the Peninsula: The heathens In an early-afternoon rainstorm on the longest day of the year, nine heathens gathered on the beach of the tiny fishing village for a days-long celebration of Sunna, the Norse goddess of the sun.
Alaska News July 23, 2018
By Mary Simton: Woman hurt in East Anchorage hit-and-run
By Michelle Theriault Boots: Three Kenai campgrounds closed to tents after bear scratches camper
By Kalinda Kindle: Mission Complete: Team Rubicon helps with wildfire mitigation
TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK: 9-day kayaking trip to Columbia Glacier
By Assoicated Press: Kodiak hospital sees uptick in children exposed to bear spray
By Beth Bragg: An Alaska man wins the Alaskaman Extreme Triathlon
By Derek Minemyer: Paleontologist uncovering the secrets of the dinosaurs of Aniakchak
One Alaska Update Gov. Walker July 23, 2018
By Tegan Hanlon: People on the Peninsula: The masseuse When Darika Jessing went back to Thailand after losing her job in Arizona, her friend told her to get a massage. It changed her life.
By Tegan Hanlon: People on the Peninsula: The tattoo artist When the Hawaii-based tattoo artist decided to open the only tattoo parlor on the Homer Spit about four years ago, she didn’t know what sort of work to expect.
By Tegan Hanlon: People on the Peninsula: The Old Believer tour guide Nina Fefelov provides a rare window into an enigmatic world.
By Tegan Hanlon, Marc Lester: People on the Peninsula: The buskers The band, called Fishslap Oar Die, had just formed about a week or two earlier when the four musicians converged on the Homer Spit for seasonal work.
By Charles Wohlforth: Native memory: Lela Oman and the secret stories from the time before
Alaska News July 22, 2018
By Chris Klint: Charges: Suspect shot Mountain View teen over gang rivalry
By Chris Klint: Person of interest sought in woman’s Mountain View death
By Devin Kelly: Charges: Man was beaten, doused with bleach before being kidnapped in Anchorage
By Chris Klint: Fiery motorcycle crash closes Old Glenn Highway
By Chris Klint: 3-vehicle collision, medevac snarl Sterling Highway traffic
By Dave Leval: Anchorage families remember slain loved ones
By Marc Lester: Fairbanks Ladies of Wrestling perform in Anchorage
By Annie Zak: Alaska was a refuge for Blockbuster. As the last 2 close, readers share their memories.
By Hans Thompson: Lend a hand eradicating bird cherry
By Tegan Hanlon, Marc Lester: People on the Peninsula: The setnetting family “All our children have been raised doing this,” said Rita Clucas.