Anchorage Daily News

Former Gov. Sarah Palin reportedly is returning to Alaska for a book signing at Elmendorf Air Force Base Sunday. Full Story »

President Barack Obama has nominated Larry Persily, a former journalist and political aide, to serve as the federal coordinator for the Alaska natural gas pipeline project. Full Story »

Bering Straits Native Corp. has promoted Gail Schubert to chief executive. Schubert has been ex Full Story »

Former state House Majority Leader Ralph Samuels announced Tuesday he's running for governor next year. That sets up a Republican primary fight among Samuels, Gov. Sean Parnell and Anchorage attorney Bill Walker over Alaska's relationship with the oil industry. Full Story »

Alaska Board of Fisheries members adjourned Tuesday without finalizing a letter they plan to send to the Legislature asking it to determine if additional protection for Bristol Bay's fisheries is warranted. Full Story »

Officials have found a 24-inch jagged rupture in a pipeline that began pouring oil and water Nov. 29, creating one of the biggest North Slope crude oil spills ever. Full Story »

One of the attorneys urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down an anti-corruption statute told the justices on Tuesday that the law used in the case against a former Alaska lawmaker is "vague, amorphous," and "open-ended." Full Story »

They were Ugg boots, in black, with zippers up the back. I'd been looking at them on the Internet since last season, when I saw them on a cool-looking woman on a First Friday. Full Story »

Months of work and hours of public hearings ended with a near unanimous vote Tuesday night on a 2010 city budget that in the final analysis was just slightly bigger than the $420.6 million spending plan submitted by Mayor Dan Sullivan in early October. Full Story »

Nick Chamberlain walked with his former high-school sweetheart into the woods behind Service High School on Monday during lunch break with the promise of a silver ring, told her to close her eyes and lift her head, then plunged a pocket knife into her neck, according to documents filed in court Tuesday charging him with attempted murder. Full Story »

Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan is moving to change the state's ethics rules in the wake of the battles waged by former Gov. Sarah Palin . Full Story »

A leaner, tighter budget that would lay off dozens of full- and part-time city employees goes before the Anchorage Assembly tonight as Mayor Dan Sullivan puts his first real mark on local government. Full Story »

A 71-year-old woman was killed in a car wreck off Lake Otis Parkway Monday morning, according to Anchorage police. Full Story »

A baby who escaped unharmed after being ejected from a vehicle during a Midtown collision on Sunday apparently went through a window after it broke in the impact, police said Monday. Full Story »

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it is working with libraries in 14 states, including Alaska, to develop proposals for broadband funding under this year's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which makes available economic-stimulus money. Full Story »

The Anchorage health department will hold a free swine flu vaccination clinic open to everyone from 5 to 9 p.m. today at Clark Middle School on North Bragaw Street at Mountain View Drive. Full Story »

A 16-year-old Service High student stabbed and critically injured his ex-girlfriend behind the school Monday while they were on lunch break, according to police and school officials. Full Story »

A case with roots in the Alaska political corruption investigation has worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court , which this week will look at two cases in which an anti-corruption statute is in question. Full Story »

The Interior Department on Monday gave the go-ahead for Shell Oil to drill three exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea, a move that could spur offshore oil and gas production in a new region of the Arctic. Full Story »

For a certain number of folks around here, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a tree from Minnesota Bob. He's the kind, soft-spoken gentleman who's set up in the Burlington Coat Factory parking lot, with an 18-foot, undulating Santa doing The Funky Monkey. Full Story »

Sexual abuse claims filed against Jesuits by the Nov. 30 deadline range in severity and span decades and geography, from Native Alaska village children to students at Gonzaga Prep School in Spokane, Wash. Full Story »

A child about 2 months old was ejected from a Ford Explorer during a Midtown accident Sunday but was not seriously injured, police said. The baby was not in a car seat when found. Full Story »

A funeral service for Norma D. Silook -- the mother of artist Susie Silook -- will be held at 3 p.m. today at Evergreen Memorial Chapel in Anchorage. Full Story »

Professional and amateur photographers will offer free portraits to those in need from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 12 at the Mountain View Boys and Girls Clubhouse, 315 Price St. Full Story »

A roughly 2-month-old child was ejected from a Ford Explorer during a Midtown accident today but was not seriously injured, police say. Full Story »