Tag: Anchorage

Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano's great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to...

Earthquakes under a volcano near Alaska's largest city raise concerns

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An increase in the number of earthquakes under a volcano near Alaska’s largest city this year has geologists paying...

Grazer beats the behemoth that killed her cub to win Alaska's Fat Bear Contest

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday...

EDITORIAL: Eklutna power plan: Perfect compromise or failure by committee?

Jul. 27—A good compromise, as the saying goes, is one that leaves none of the parties involved satisfied. And by that metric, the...

Man gets 226-year prison sentences for killing 2 Alaska Native women. He filmed the torture of one

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who killed two Alaska Native women and was heard while videotaping the torture death of one say...