EDITOR'S NOTE - An occasional look at assertions by government officials and others on how well they adhere to the facts. WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over

But the publicity division of Universal Studios decided that the best way to get people to pay to see it is to spread false claims that the movie is a documentary with "archival footage" and "actual case studies" about alien abductions to back up every

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear - shreds your raft.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Documents filed in federal court directly link U.S. Rep. Don Young to a wide-ranging investigation of corruption in Alaska for the first time. The filing late Wednesday alleges Young, a 19-term Republican, illegally received gifts

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Alaska job market continues to struggle, as the state suffered its fifth straight month of job losses in September and the unemployment rate rose to 8.4 percent.The seasonally adjusted jobless rate rose from 8.1 percent in August

FAIRBANKS -- ConocoPhillips said last week that the oil giant will sell $10 billion of assets and lower capital spending in 2010 in an effort to strengthen its financial position.Charlie Rowton, a spokesman for the Houston-based company, said no decisions

The Sparck triplets grew up in Bethel and spent summers and vacations in Chevak, a small village on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Michelle, Amy and Cika picked berries together on the tundra that surrounded their village, and grew up using the salves and

An easy shot at dinner turned out to be costly for 33-year-old Rockmon Davisson of Sterling, according to Alaska Wildlife Troopers, who caught Davisson ground-sluicing a grouse on the Kenai Peninsula Monday. Two problems for Davisson: One, the grouse in

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SAN FRANCISCO - The US Geological Survey (USGS) has said that an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the Aleutian Islands of the US state of Alaska late Tuesday, Xinhua reported. The quake struck the Fox Islands region at 12.21 pm local tim