Moderates unite in U.S. Senate, beating path to Murkowski’s door
To succeed, any new COVID-19 relief measures face a gauntlet: threading the needle between a Democrat-led House and a Republican Senate. Eight Senate moderates, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski, have joined together to start tugging some strings. So far, the center is holding.
Dogs in hotel and goats in the aviary: Haines’ pets get care during disaster
After record-breaking storms, flooding, and landslides, human residents weren't the only ones facing emergencies and evacuations in Haines this week.
Anchorage Assembly passes $15.4 million relief package
The last of the city's CARES Act funding will go toward rental and mortgage relief, small business grants, and food and voucher programs helping Anchorage families cover the essentials.
Residents rally to free entangled humpback near Tenakee Springs
Residents of Tenakee Springs were awoken in the middle of the night to a plaintive whale cry and quickly mobilized to save the trapped cetacean.
Worry for commercial fishermen and Peninsula communities after Cook Inlet fishery closure
Federal managers voted Monday to close a huge swath of Upper Cook Inlet to commercial salmon fishing, capping a two-year fight over the fate of the fishery and its 500 permit-holders.
Here’s what it’s like to be medevaced to Anchorage from rural Alaska with COVID-19
Bethel elder Esther Green was flown 400 miles to Anchorage with COVID-19 and pneumonia. No one from her family was able to accompany her — and they couldn't reach her for more than 14 days afterward.
Ask a Climatologist: Historic Southeast Alaska rains linked to a changing climate
The rain wrecked havoc in some places, causing sinkholes and landslides, like in Haines, where the official search for two missing people was suspended Monday.
Once again, Arctic Report Card says abnormal the new normal
The 2020 Arctic Report Card is out, and results show life in the Arctic is heating up — faster. This year was the Arctic's second-warmest on record, affecting everything from plankton to people.
Hope, hesitancy as first vaccine shipments grow near for Alaska
Providers charged with giving the vaccine say they’re eager to use the first doses to protect their front-line workers. But they also say workers are hesitant about being among the first to receive doses on a nationwide scale, and add that the first shipment will do little to ease the current demands of the pandemic.
Closed for the past 18 months, Haines hotel opens for a community in need
Some 50 families have been displaced in Haines due to mudslides and evacuations. Every hotel in town was full over the weekend. Except for one: the 60-room Hotel Halsingland, closed for the last year and a half and currently on the market.
LISTEN: As Alaska’s COVID-19 count spikes, contact tracers bear the strain
The job wasn’t an easy one to begin with, and the surge of infections is increasing the pressure on Alaska’s contact tracers, leading to burnout and turnover.
Officials call off search for 2 Haines residents missing in landslide
The decision to suspend the search for David Simmons and Janae Larson is due to bad weather and unstable ground.
Alaska will get special first shipment of 35,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine as soon as next week
State officials say that the federal government is treating Alaska as a "territory" and sending its initial batch of COVID-19 vaccines all at once, instead of once a week. The vaccine will be prioritized for front-line health care workers and residents of long-term care centers like nursing homes.
Federal court rejects approval for Hilcorp’s Liberty Project
A federal appeals court has sided with environmental groups and overturned approval for Hilcorp’s Liberty Project in the Beaufort Sea.
Trump administration to auction oil drilling rights in all federal lands of ANWR coastal plain
The Bureau of Land Management says, however, it could withdraw some tracts from leasing after its 30-day comment period ends Dec. 17.
After COVID-19 closes post offices for weeks, Western Alaskans suffer critical mail delays
The post offices in Kwethluk and Pilot Station have been closed for weeks because employees were infected with COVID-19, delaying shipments of essential medicines and supplies.
Anchorage mayor tests positive for COVID-19
Austin Quinn-Davidson began feeling symptoms a week ago, according to a Sunday press release.
In Haines, clean-up and search efforts happen in brief good-weather window
Search and rescue teams took off for their fourth day of looking for two missing residents, whose home was caught up in a 600-foot landslide on Wednesday.
Dozens of Haines residents evacuated from their homes as rain and landslides continue
Dozens more homes in Haines were evacuated Thursday night as rain continued to saturate the mountainsides near residential neighborhoods.
Around Southeast Alaska, communities assess damage from record-breaking storm
Sitka broke rainfall records on Tuesday, and damage from serious rain, winds and power outages afflicted communities across Southeast.