An Alaska Railroad Corp. crew accidently severed a fiber-optics line near Talkeetna early Monday, knocking out phone and Internet service in Fairbanks and across much of Alaska and bringing a major disruption to the start of the work week.
The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday ruled against a small parish fighting with a regional church authority over ownership of a chapel, ending a four-year court battle over the $250,000 property on Farmers Loop.
On Sept. 28, Deputy Matt Williams and his K-9 partner, Diogi, went to work on what started as an ordinary day and ended up giving their lives in the line of duty.
We're zooming down 4th Avenue at about 2 a.m. on a recent Saturday morning, what many consider a Friday night still. Our red-and-blue lights shine on the buildings as we whiz by. The siren seems to wail from somewhere far away.
Northrim BanCorp Inc. said Tuesday its board declared a quarterly dividend of 12.5 cents per share. The dividend is payable Nov. 3 to shareholders of record at Oct. 20.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska----Northrim BanCorp, Inc.'s Board of Directors announced a $0.125 per share quarterly dividend for shareholders of record as of the close of business on October 20, 2006, to be paid November 3, 2006.
I was born in 1920 in New Almeno, Kan. I grew up in Klamath Falls, Ore. In 1937, my father, Frank Schnabel, returned from Alaska, where he had sought work during the Great Depression. He told me and my brothers about an old burned-out sawmill boiler, engine and carriage that could be bought for $500 and thought that this could be an opportunity to lift ourselves out of the manual laboring class.
From the sounds of it, about the only time Kathy Kelly can get some rest is when she's in prison. When she's not, there are minds to open, wars to stop, a world to save.
