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Washington, DC (AP) - The Biden administration is siding against the airline industry in a case that involves whether California-based flight crews should get the rest breaks that are required under state law.

Yakutat, Alaska (KINY) - Coast Guard aircrews medevaced two people from Dry Bay Airstrip, approximately 30 miles Southeast of Yakutat, Alaska, after their plane crashed, Tuesday.

SEATTLE (AP) — Alaska Airlines pilots have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a future strike if current contract negotiations with management and federal mediation efforts fail.

Soldotna, Alaska (KINY) - Senate President Peter Micciche has announced he will not seek reelection in 2022.

Sitka, Alaska (KINY) - The City and Borough of Sitka Police Department is investigating an arson at one of the harbors in town.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The League of Women Voters Juneau is aiming to take the mystery out of how run for public office.

Vancouver, BC (KINY) - Blackwolf Copper and Gold has announced the acquisition of a new property, located northwest of the towns of Stewart, British Columbia and Hyder on the Alaskan side of the Golden Triangle.

Yakutat, Alaska (KINY) - Former police officer Charley McAnally has spoken out about his recent hiring, and a subsequent recission of that job offer by the City of Hoonah.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing restrictions that would hinder plans for a copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - As the Juneau Assembly weighs a number of options in covering the tax revenue loss from exempting sales tax on food, the Juneau Chamber voiced its opposition to one of the options that would apply a seasonal 1% sales tax increase to cover that.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Alaska Wildlife Trooper Colonel Doug Massie announced his retirement from the Alaska Department of Public Safety effective May 31.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Authorities report that a 37-year-old woman died as a result of her injuries in a single-vehicle-involved crash early Tuesday morning.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears and Thunder Mountain High School Falcons softball teams lost their opening games at the Southeast Region V Championships in Ketchikan on Wednesday and will face each other in an elimination game today, while the Crimson Bears baseball team put the Falcons sandlot boys into an elimination game as well.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Hunter Mallinger, 31, Ryan Aguilar, 45, and Randy Peterson, 36, had a ‘scramble’ to the finish in the recent Spring Tide Scramble and Brian McTague, 55, and Jim Ustasiewski, 58, led the charge in the Cameron Clark races last week.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The best high school times, heights and distances will come together on Friday and Saturday during the 2022 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Track & Field State Championships at Anchorage’s Dimond High School. Among the top contenders are athletes from Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé and Thunder Mountain.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The entire boys soccer Southeast Conference will play in the division two state soccer championships beginning Thursday in Anchorage and Eagle River, and a top side in the girls tournament did not make the selection.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé senior Porter Nelson signed a letter of intent Tuesday before family and friends in the JDHS gymnasium to attend and play baseball at Citrus College in Glendora, California.