German Iditarod musher's lead dog missing in Anchorage
- A rookie Iditarod musher's lead dog is missing in Anchorage after escaping from a dog truck last Thursday, friends say.
In a state Capitol meeting room hundreds of miles from where most Alaskans live, a Senate panel is digging into one of the most complex and important issues in state government: How much to tax Big Oil.
A major focus of the Legislature this week will be energy as five state House members travel to Washington, D.C., to urge drilling expansions, while state senators back home discuss oil taxes.
Volunteers from Pierce County Search and Rescue sifted through tons of paper at a recycling center Sunday, hoping to find items that Josh Powell may have dumped before killing himself and his two sons in a house fire last week.
When the U.S. Army announced the finalists to develop its new series of camouflage patterns last month, almost nobody saw the results coming.
Three men burst into the Spenard hotel room of a 49-year-old Anchorage man and robbed him of jewelry, his cell phone and wallet at gunpoint early Sunday morning, Anchorage police said. They then fled in a black SUV.
Two of the most aggressive Iditarod critics say two consecutive years without a sled dog death in the event hasn't cooled their objections to the race.
In an unusual move, Mayor Stephen Buxbaum distributed a letter at Tuesday’s Olympia City Council meeting responding to west side residents in attendance, one of whom has sued the city over its approval of a 7-Eleven store at Harrison Avenue and Division Street.
Traci Lazar describes the Olympia Regional Learning Academy’s Homeschool Connect program as “the best of both worlds.”
The state Supreme Court, prodded into action by a 2009 case involving a reprimanded Federal Way judge, is weighing a rule to underscore that court administrative records are public.
There were sharp tools, cedar shavings and steaming pans of water. And there were plenty of stories – including ones about beloved grandmas and favorite pets, and life before such luxuries as indoor plumbing and the Internet. After all, memories and artwork always become one in Andrea Wilbur-Sigo’s home studio near Shelton.
The environmental debate over exporting massive amounts of coal through Washington ports to China is coming to Olympia today.
Investigators believe a double shooting Sunday morning at a home in Yelm was accidental.
Some disposal sites for storm debris will close earlier than planned because of decreased demand, a Thurston County commission news release stated.
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