The proposal would allow the school and Colorado State University to jointly offer a veterinary degree, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Thursday. Under terms of the deal, which is still being worked out, UAF would provide the first two years of graduate-level study and Colorado State would provide the final two. Read more...

FAIRBANKS (AP) — The University of Alaska Fairbanks is finalizing details on a partnership that would establish a new veterinary medicine program by 2015. The proposal would allow the school and Colorado State University to jointly offer a veterinary degree, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Thursday. Under terms of the deal, which is still being worked out, UAF would provide the first two years of graduate-level study and Colorado State would provide the final two. Read more...

Associated Press ANCHORAGE — Testimony in the grounding of a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge off a remote Alaska island focused Thursday on why its towing vessel unexpectedly lost power in stormy conditions in the Gulf of Alaska. Read more...

By DAN JOLING Associated Press ANCHORAGE — Testimony in the grounding of a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge off a remote Alaska island focused Thursday on why its towing vessel unexpectedly lost power in stormy conditions in the Gulf of Alaska. Read more...

Marquinn Jones-Nelson, 23, is accused of shooting 19-year-old Devante Jordan at an apartment on Anchorage’s east side in 2011 in what prosecutors say was a “snitch killing.” Read more...

ANCHORAGE (AP) — A jury in Anchorage is being asked to decide whether a man killed another man because he was afraid of him or if he did it because the man had a reputation for being a snitch. Read more...