The Associated Press

A bear that attacked a man without provocation Sunday on a Kasilof beach was not rabid. Listen Now

Two Native villages on Alaska’s western coast are coping with shortages of treated water brought on by failures of their supply transmission pipelines. Download Audio

Anchorage area resident are being told the bears are waking up. Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist Jessy Coltrane says black bears have been spotted near Far North Bicentennial Park in recent days. And Coltrane says more bears should be leaving their dens this week.

A review has cleared two Anchorage police officers involved in a fatal shooting. Police spokesman Dani Myren says in a release that the Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals ruled that the use of force by officers Roger Billiet and Alan Rydberg was within legal parameters and no charges will be filed. Download Audio

The Senate confirmed President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the Interior Department, Sally Jewell, this evening. Download Audio

The Air Force says a decision to cancel this month’s Red Flag Alaska military exercises will save about $3.5 million. Download Audio

Sequestration of federal spending is going to mean a change in volcano monitoring. The Alaska Volcano Observatory watches the volcanoes because ash cloud eruptions that get up high enough can be a severe hazard to intercontinental aviation. But maintenance of the seismic network has been repeatedly reduced due to state and federal budget reductions, and just 120 of almost 200 seismic monitors in the state are in working condition.

A conservation group said Wednesday it will continue pushing federal authorities to more closely regulate muddy logging roads, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that sided with the timber industry. Download Audio

An Iditarod Sled Dog described as "otherwise healthy" has died in Unalakleet. Race Marshal Mark Nordman said in a news release that the 5-year-old male dog named Dorado was from 38-year-old Fairbanks rookie musher Paige Drobny's team.

The trial of a man accused of killing two people at the Coast Guard station on Kodiak Island has been postponed.

Public school teachers might have to wait a couple years longer to acquire tenure rights if a bill proposed in the Alaska House is passed.

Alaska residents could get lifetime hunting and fishing licenses under a bill proposed in the state House. Rep. Les Gara says his bill, HB157, should save on paperwork and make the process more convenient.

A small airplane servicing the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race flipped while taking off but both people on board walked away unharmed. Alaska State Troopers say the Iditarod Air Force plane was piloted by 57-year-old Diana Moroney of Chugiak, a community on the north side of Anchorage.

Alaska's oil wealth portfolio has hit an all-time high: $45 billion. The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. announced the fund hit the mark Tuesday.

The defendant in the double slaying at a Coast Guard communications station in Kodiak made his first court appearance Tuesday. James Wells pleaded not guilty during his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Anchorage.

The wife of an Alaska man arrested Friday in last year's shooting deaths of two employees at a Coast Guard air station on Kodiak Island says her husband is innocent.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management says it has found no misconduct in research by an Alaska scientist who wrote a 2006 paper on drowned polar bears and was subsequently investigated.

The Anchorage Daily News reports that a federal Department of Defense inspector general is questioning an Air Force report on the cause of an F-22 Raptor crash in Alaska. The Air Force's Accident Investigation Board report indicated that the pilot of the plane, which crashed in November of 2010, " failed the recognize and initiate a timely dive recovery, due to unrecognized spatial disorientation. " But in a report released this week, the inspector general says the AIB's opinion is not supported by the facts.

The Anchorage Assembly has given the go-ahead for a large jet to land at the city airfield. The 100,000-pound Boeing 727 has been donated by FedEx to the University of Alaska Anchorage, which wants it for its aviation technology program based at Merrill Field. The busy airfield for small planes is just a mile from downtown.