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Anchorage News

• Palin and Graham deliver food to villages
  While Gov. Sarah Palin has taken heat from political foes over the state's handling of appeals from Western Alaska that the region is suffering a fuel and food crisis, count 28-year-old Russian Mission resident Jojo Changsak as a fan.
• Murkowski, Begich put partisanship on back burner
  The partisan flare-up in Congress over the $787 billion economic stimulus bill doesn't necessarily foreshadow a new wave of ferocious inter-party bickering in Washington, Alaska's two senators said Friday.
• Suspect arrested in doctor's death
  Troopers on Friday arrested a man in Noorvik who was wanted for second-degree murder in connection with the November crash that killed an Anchorage doctor.
• Cleanup continues after Prudhoe Bay spill
  Cleanup of a spill of oil, natural gas and water from a Prudhoe Bay pipeline continued Friday, state environmental officials said. They still didn't have an estimate of the spill size.
• Budget woes force fire station closure
  For the first time in decades, the Anchorage Fire Department closed one fire station and parked two fire trucks at other stations Friday in an effort to save money in the face of ongoing budget woes.
• Anchorage inflation leap surprises economists
  Anchorage inflation jumped in 2008 despite slowing down slightly in the final part of the year, according to a new federal report
• State's unemployed to get debit cards
  People laid off from jobs in Alaska will have the option of accessing unemployment benefits through debit cards under a program expected to be launched in May.