ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A ... issued exploration permits to Apache Alaska Corp. for high-intensity seismic exploration. "Each year, there are fewer and fewer of these whales left," Taryn Kiekow, an NRDC attorney, said in an announcement of the lawsuit.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Two women face possible charges after authorities ... Both women face possible misdemeanor charges, which have been sent to the Bethel district attorney's office for review. The women's names were withheld pending charges.

We faced the Alaska Republican Party Leadership’s shenanigans these past months. It took lawyers threatening legal action ... with much unfinished business.  We will keep fighting the good fight. We will work to reclaim our liberty, for ...

In the most-watched contests, Mayor Dan Sullivan and Anchorage School District board candidate Natasha ... Jeffrey Mittman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska, said it was too early to comment on the official results.

The Mudflats, who’s in Fairbanks covering the Alaska Democratic Convention, gets the scoop. It’s reporting that the chair of the party, Patti Higgins, is stepping down to challenge Anchorage Republican ... a Fairbanks lawyer who is the currently ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Three Alaska men are scheduled to go on trial Monday in Anchorage on charges of plotting to kill government employees. Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox of Fairbanks, Coleman Barney of North Pole and Lonnie Vernon of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters ... and machine guns and were hatching a plan to kill Alaska state troopers and federal law enforcement agents. DEFENSE CITES GOVERNMENT OVER-REACH Defense attorneys, in their opening statements, described their ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Two women face possible charges after authorities ... Both women face possible misdemeanor charges, which have been sent to the Bethel district attorney's office for review. The women's names were withheld pending charges.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP ... The federal trial of Cox and two Alaska men — Coleman Barney, 37, and Lonnie Vernon, 56 — began last week and could last another month. Defense attorneys plan to argue that the government badly overstepped its authority ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Howard Meyer saw it and his heart sank ... on a raw spring day in the high reaches of the Eagle River Valley. Meyer, a 57-year-old attorney, was walking around his 66-acre property on Mariah Drive, which borders the wilderness of ...

Allis, a lawyer with expertise in Native business law ... some Alaska Native heavyweights with a history of returning big dividends and other benefits to shareholders, such as Arctic Slope Regional Corp. on the North Slope or CIRI based in Anchorage.

Lawyers in Alaska try to ignite BP case ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 30 (UPI ... April 30 (UPI) -- The International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, said putting budget reform ahead of economic improvement has backfired around the ...

Cook Inletkeeper, Sierra Club and Talkeetna-based Alaska Survival are petitioning the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a decision ... the railroad already extends to ports in Anchorage, Seward and Whittier. The groups issued a press release with this ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP ... The federal trial of Cox and two Alaska men — Coleman Barney, 37, and Lonnie Vernon, 56 — began last week and could last another month. Defense attorneys plan to argue that the government badly overstepped its authority ...

5/10/2012 - JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AFNS) -- Anchorage police and Air Force ... According to charging documents released by the Anchorage District Attorney's office May 9 after Thomas' hearing, Reeves was in the area of Thomas' residence ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Environmental and Alaska Native groups ... and they relied on modeling tricks to reduce the measured impact." Earthjustice attorney Colin O'Brien said. The eight groups asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Rock musician and conservative activist Ted Nugent pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal wildlife violation after he failed to track down and kill a black bear he wounded with bow and arrow in Alaska during filming for his reality television show three years ago. Nugent, 63, pleaded guilty by telephone in U.S. District Court in Ketchikan, Alaska to a single ...

ANCHORAGE — Prosecutors tried unsuccessfully to remove a juror Wednesday morning in a murder conspiracy trial of militia leader Schaeffer Cox and two co-defendants, after the juror told the judge s...

ANCHORAGE - The battle over rights for lesbian ... against people based on their gender identity. Tom Stenson, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska, says job discrimination based solely on a person’s sex is already illegal ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 30 (UPI) -- Lawyers in Alaska are wrangling over the possibility ... The explosion killed 11 workers and set off a world-record, underwater oil leak that took months to stop. A similar case was dismissed in Texas ...

ANCHORAGE ... in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, home to a dwindling population of 280 beluga whales protected by the Endangered Species Act. “Each year, there are fewer and fewer of these whales left,” said Taryn Kiekow, a staff attorney with ...

ANCHORAGE — Prosecutors called two former members of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia to testify Wednesday in the trial of three militia members accused of conspiring to kill government employees. Ph...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — A body found north of Anchorage was that of a 22-year-old airman ... in court Wednesday that his family was looking into hiring him a lawyer. The public defender's office said it had not yet assigned him ...

The groups — Alaska Chapter of the Sierra Club, Cook Inletkeeper and Alaska Survival — jointly filed a brief with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals hoping ... another port in addition to Anchorage, Seward and Whittier, Moosey said Anchorage ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP ... issued exploration permits to Apache Alaska Corp. for high-intensity seismic exploration. "Each year, there are fewer and fewer of these whales left," Taryn Kiekow, an NRDC attorney, said in an announcement of the lawsuit.

ANCHORAGE — Environmental and Alaska Native groups on Wednesday appealed an air ... and they relied on modeling tricks to reduce the measured impact.” Earthjustice attorney Colin O’Brien said. The eight groups asked the 9th Circuit Court ...

A plea agreement with federal prosecutors ... in Tuesday's U.S. District Court proceeding in the southeast Alaska town of Ketchikan, his lawyer said. Nugent didn't know he was breaking the law, said his Anchorage attorney, Wayne Anthony Ross.

The Justice Department has cut a deal with a former member of the Alaska Peacemaker Militia to bolster its case against the group’s leader Schaeffer Cox and two others on trial in U.S. District Court in Anchorage. Michael O. Anderson, who was ...

Ronald O'Neil and Tracy Simpson, both from the Southeast Alaska community of Port Protection ... by the state but found O'Neil guilty of reckless manslaughter. His lawyer, Dianne Thoben, says she is concerned the jurors found her client guilty ...