Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon
After a slow start, Alaska wildfire season wraps up as unremarkable
Unusual weather conditions delayed fires until waves of lightning struck in late July.
Alaska flu cases increased last year, spiking in early winter, while vaccine rates lagged
Alaska's overall influenza case load during the 2022-23 season was much higher than in prior years, according to the state Division of Public Health.
National political fight over electric vehicles surfaces in Alaska
The fossil fuel industry and its backers have criticized the Biden EV vision. But in Alaska, where the vehicles' use is expanding, they are winning fans.
Traditional practices blended with modern life jacket technology seen as boosting fishing safety in Alaska
A pilot program examining ways that Indigenous knowledge addresses fishing safety in Unalakleet has come up with some recommendations.
Oil and gas companies have outsized economic impact on Alaska, says industry study
The study found that oil and gas employment, spending, tax revenues and spinoff effects supported 16% of the state’s jobs in 2022.
Anchorage trail projects seen as modest but positive steps in 500-mile Alaska Traverse plan
The three Chugach State Park projects that won legislative funding were chosen strategically and they survived the governor’s veto pen.
Trooper citations for salmon discards add grist to regional Alaska fishery dispute
Accusations of "chum chucking" could affect debate over Alaska Peninsula commercial harvests’ impact on Yukon and Kuskowkim salmon runs.
Alaska construction employment statistics show uneven post-pandemic recovery, wage deflation
Construction employment in Anchorage, Mat-Su and Southeast Alaska is back up to or even exceeding pre-pandemic levels, but Fairbanks and the Interior lag.
Study: Different populations in Alaska have some of nation’s highest and lowest death rates by cause
The study, published Thursday in The Lancet, is a sweeping review of health disparities across the nation.
Lawsuits target Alaska predator-control program that killed 99 bears in effort to boost caribou
The program carried out in southwestern Alaska was illegal and will not help the flagging Mulchatna caribou herd, the lawsuits claim.
Spruce beetles’ expansion into Denali poses questions about future changes in the forest
The aggressive infestation that took hold in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in 2016 has now spread north.
Alaska seeks more time to submit air-quality plan for particulate-plagued Fairbanks
The state’s environmental commissioner is pushing back on EPA’s position that the state should address power-plant emissions.
AOGCC orders ConocoPhillips to pay penalties for 2022 blowout at Alpine field on Alaska’s North Slope
The well blowout led to a weeks-long release of natural gas and a brief evacuation at the company’s Alpine oil field.
As climate change transforms the Arctic, Homeland Security must adapt, official says
The forces of climate change that are reducing ice cover and opening up the Arctic to more activity are making Alaska more important, said Dimitri Kusnezov.
Department of Defense, citing critical mineral needs, boosts Nome-area graphite mining project
The grant is intended to help Graphite One complete its economic feasibility study more quickly.
Alaska environmental department plans to repeal regulation of some fuel-storage tanks
Thousands of aboveground tanks that store petroleum products would no longer be regulated by the state, under an Alaska DEC proposal.
Craig George, renowned Arctic wildlife biologist and whale expert, missing in rafting accident
A veteran Arctic scientist who was one of the world’s most distinguished whale experts was missing after a rafting accident in Interior Alaska last week.
Alaska and 9 other states threaten to sue EPA over wood-burning stove standards
Alaska officials say the EPA should focus on Fairbanks wood-stove certifications; the agency wants more improvements, some at power plants.
U.S. senators propose new fish labeling, enhanced ocean research and more economic tools
A series of fish- and ocean-related bills have been introduced by Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and colleagues from coastal states.
Alaska Supreme Court considers whether Hilcorp’s financial information should stay secret
The city of Valdez, site of the trans-Alaska pipeline’s marine terminal, wants the public to have information about Hilcorp’s financial wherewithal.