Monday Afternoon: Alaska News at a Glance

Excerpt: Anchorage police have arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with two pipe bombs and an improvised grenade allegedly found in his backpack at his home.

The unnamed youth has been charged with one count of misconduct involving weapons, third degree, and misconduct involving a controlled substance, sixth degree, police said. A small quantity of marijuana was discovered in his possession, police said.

The teen, a student at West High School, has possessed the explosive devices on school grounds, police said.

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Excerpt: The Seward Highway was reopened about 2 p.m. Saturday at Mile 21, roughly 24 hours after an avalanche blocked traffic in both directions.

The closure stranded motorists in Seward and blocked access to the city. The highway was blocked south of Crown Point and north of the Snow River Crossing -- about 17 miles south of the Sterling and Seward Highway junction, said Transportation Department spokesman Roger Wetherell.

The state used artillery to loosen hazardous snow and prevent more avalanches in the area this morning.

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Excerpt: Defending Iditarod champion Lance Mackey headed the fourth class inducted into the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame today.

Mackey, the three-time Iditarod champion from Fairbanks, was joined by longtime Native sports star Reggie Joule, the 10-time World Eskimo-Indian Olympics gold medalist from Kotzebue, Olympic snowboarding bronze medalist Rosey Fletcher of Anchorage and pioneering mountaineer Bradford Washburn of Massachusetts.

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Tonight's forecast:

Rain and snow likely. Snow accumulation around 1 inch. Temperatures holding in the low to mid 30s. Along Turnagain Arm and higher elevations...southeast winds 40 to 60 mph with gusts to 80 mph diminishing to 20 to 40 mph toward morning. Elsewhere...winds becoming southeast 20 to 35 mph late in the evening.