...to cost about $325 million in 2012, up seven percent compared to 2011, according to data from the University of Alaska Anchorage's Institute of Social and Economic Research. That puts the healthcare industry in the top five construction spenders...

If Cody Dorrough was not currently staying in the Kenai Friendship Mission, he would be out on the streets or back in jail.

Alaska Sen. Mark Begich said he and his colleagues in the Senate are digging into a massive 1,300-page climate and energy bill passed by the U.S. House June 26 to understand its impacts and to put their own imprint on the bill.

ANCHORAGE (AP) -- A new study attempts to place a dollar value on Alaska's natural ecosystems.