An Alaska assistant district attorney who once was a Washington state lawmaker was shot and killed in the Arctic community of Barrow, according to officials with the North Slope Borough.

She was promoted to Barrow, where she served as a public defender for two years until 2009 when she was promoted to regional supervisor for the Alaska Public Defender Agency, first in Kotzebue and ...

FAIRBANKS — A Barrow man accused of murdering his cousin in a hotel room last January has changed his plea after accepting a deal with the state. Abraham Sagvayauk Stine, 39, was indicted on ...