Obama leaves Monday for a three-day visit to the 49th state in which he will speak at a State Department climate change conference and become the first president to visit the Alaska Arctic.
Star Trek actor William Shatner wants to boldly go where no man has gone before: To the rain-soaked city of Seattle for a potential solution to California’s devastating drought.
“It’s a sexist argument that a blonde can occupy the office,” ranted 2010 Alaska Assembly candidate Joshua Whittaker on video to Anchorage mayoral candidate and conservative State Assemblywoman Amy Demboski. She says she caught him walking toward one of her large campaign signs “with a box cutter.” This came after reports that at least 18 of Demboski’s signs had been vandalized.
Some U.S. soldiers at a military base in Alaska were allegedly granted permissions to use racial slurs against one another during what became known as “Racial Thursdays.”
In Fairbanks, Alaska, Abraham Stine, 39, reportedly punched his cousin, Wesley Lord, 37, to death after he found that his girlfriend, Dominique Vasquez, had slept with Lord during a night of allegedly drinking and smoking methamphetamine with others in a hotel room.
