U.S. Attorney for Alaska Michael J. Heyman confirmed the active investigation Friday during a press conference, saying recent reporting by The New York Times had brought forward troubling new information and accelerated investigative activity.

Under the agreement, Hilcorp Cook Inlet will sell and physically deliver the gas directly to ENSTAR.

ADF&G has received a notice of intent to sue from a Washington-based conservation organization over the management of sport and commercial salmon fisheries in the Alaska Peninsula, Chignik and Kodiak areas.

Deputy Public Safety Commissioner Austin McDaniel said the department would hold anyone found to have broken the law accountable.

The ordinance would have established procedures for restricting individuals from designated city properties when their conduct threatened safety, involved harassment, or materially interfered with government operations.

In March of each year in the United States, the clocks “spring forward” an hour, and in November, they “fall back” an hour.

District administrators recommend awarding the contract to Reliant over First Student.

The State of Alaska filed five criminal charges Wednesday against 39-year-old Fleta Marie Blair, stemming from the April 14 death of Shawn Goforth.

Council members questioned whether reducing the city’s property tax rate is the best way to return additional seasonal sales tax revenue to residents.

The Soldotna City Council is scheduled to reconsider an ordinance regulating unsafe and disruptive conduct at city public facilities at a meeting on Wednesday, with City Manager Bower now recommending the council fail the measure.