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An Alaskan jury finds Brian Smith guilty of the murder of Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk.
2024-02-22

Five people are killed in a plane crash in Western Alaska, United States.
2020-02-7

United States Vice President Mike Pence visits Alaska, where he meets with Governor Bill Walker and discusses stationing F-35 squadrons in the state. Pence is beginning a 10-day trip to South Korea, Australia, Indonesia and Japan.
2017-04-15

An arriving passenger from Alaska removes his checked-baggage pistol and kills five people and injures six at the Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Florida.
2017-01-6

The Alaska village of Nelson Lagoon is coated in volcanic ash after an especially vigorous and ongoing eruption of Mount Pavlof.
2016-03-28

Effective midnight, Washington, D.C. joins Alaska, Colorado, and Washington state as the only places in the United States that locally purport to override federal law and allow the use of marijuana for recreational purposes.
2015-02-26

Voters in Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia vote to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes.
2014-11-4

Royal Dutch Shell's drilling rig "Kulluk" drifts aground near Sitkalidak Island, Alaska, after breaking loose from the anchor handling tug "Aiviq".
2013-01-1

Bob Stenehjem, the Senate Majority Leader in the US state of North Dakota, is killed in an accident in Alaska. [http:--www.greenfieldreporter.com-view-story-f986d43ebe064582bfc98572f68c74b9-ND--Obit-Stenehjem- (AP via "Greenfield Reporter")]date=August 2019
2011-07-18

U.S. Rep. Don Young R-Alaska claims that he has been cleared in a United States Department of Justice corruption probe.
2010-08-4