Mary Pemberton

The skipper of a Kodiak-based fishing vessel died Friday after the boat sank, authorities said. One crew member was missing and two others were recovering from hypothermia.

A Salcha couple has admitted buying a gun, silencer and hand grenades, and having a map to a federal judge's homes, in what prosecutors say was a murder plot that developed from a dispute over taxes.

About 20 endangered beluga whales freed themselves late Tuesday after being stranded for several hours on the mud flats of Turnagain Arm just west of Bird Point.