Thar be gold underneath these hills! That’s what the buyer of Woodchopper Gold Claim could say in Circle, Alaska. The massive property is hitting the market for $23.5 million, the Wall Street Journal ...

Mark Begich, left, describes his downtown hotel redevelopment project to the board of the Anchorage Community Development Authority at a recent meeting. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) In 2019, an ...

You may have money waiting for you and you just don’t know it. Businesses that owe money such as wages to people they can no longer find are required to turn that money over to the state after a ...

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The sale price will fall significantly below its last trade amid an ongoing repricing of downtown’s real estate market.

Reporting from Hope, Alaska — To say that this town called Hope may not have much of a future, one might only look at its location: at the end of a narrow, 17-mile road that springs promisingly off ...

Alaska crime trends show a mixed picture: While property crime rates have steadily declined, violent crime rates remain significantly high, according to national crime data. The mixed data fits into a ...

Lawmakers in Alaska are considering a bill that would slash property tax rates for thousands of residents. The state is considering expanding the property tax exemption for Alaskans aged over 65, ...

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska - PCS season is upon us. Many new service members will be moving to Alaska and many of those same service members will be looking to finally purchase a new home. Service ...

Around Thanksgiving of 1949 Richard Watts moved from Philadelphia to Anchorage with his family. He was 3. His father had sold his stake in a nightclub and came a few months before his family to take a ...

National crime data for 2023 shows Alaska’s overall violent crime rate was more than 540% the national rate. Alaska crime trends show a mixed picture: While property crime rates have steadily declined ...