State settles lawsuit over Alaska Hire law
The administration of Gov. Mike Dunleavy has settled a lawsuit seeking to have the Alaska Hire law declared unconstitutional.
The company Colaska Inc. sued the state’s Department of Labor...
Hilcorp paid a $25,000 fine after a worker died last year on its North Slope drilling rig
Shawn Huber, 36, died at the Milne Point field when a drilling rig’s operator accidentally opened a set of hydraulic jaws and dropped a 700-pound, 31-foot section of drilling pipe that struck Huber in the head. The operator was distracted, according to the investigation, because he was training a colleague.
As reported Delta-area mountain lion sightings increase, wildlife managers search for evidence
Officials have confirmed the presence of mountain lions in Southeast Alaska, but have yet to substantiate reports of animals roaming further north.
New legal filings: Seven were denied PFDs based on Alaska’s defunct same-sex marriage law
The assertion comes from an anonymous state worker quoted in an ongoing lawsuit filed by a woman in a same-sex marriage with a member of the military stationed outside the state, who says she was unlawfully denied her 2019 PFD.
The Supreme Court is raising doubts about Alaska’s $500-a-year limit on contributions to political candidates
The Supreme Court is raising doubts about Alaska's $500-a-year limit on contributions to political candidates. The justices are ordering a lower court to take a new look at the issue. The court says in an unsigned opinion Monday that federal judges who had rejected a challenge to the contribution cap did not take account of a 2006 high court ruling invalidating low-dollar limits on political contributions in Vermont.
Battered by a marine heatwave, Kodiak’s cod fishermen may not be fishing in the Gulf for much longer
They’re now below the federal threshold that protects cod as a food source for endangered Stellar sea lions. As soon as the population dips below that line, the fishery closes. The whole federal cod fishery in the Gulf could be shut down for the season in January.
For sale: A stake in an array of ConocoPhillips’ Alaska projects
On the block are old, new and unbuilt projects: the Kuparuk River Unit, which is Alaska’s second-largest oil-field; the newer Alpine unit to the west; and the undeveloped Willow prospect in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
Metlakatla, which depends on water, has moved quickly to accommodate the realities of drought
Following a season of drought, the Southeast Alaska community of Metlakatla is navigating a different relationship with water, like a number of other places in the region.
A new oil boom on Alaska’s North Slope is encircling a village, and residents have raised a red flag
A major proposed North Slope oil project is running into local opposition from residents of the village of Nuiqsut, who are already partially surrounded by development and wary of more.
Those impeachment hearings? Alaska’s congressional delegation isn’t watching
Both of Alaska's U.S. senators and its congressman say they're too busy with their official duties to closely follow the impeachment testimony.
‘A hidden giant’: Alaska Legislature’s nonpartisan voice on the state budget is retiring
As the Alaska Legislature’s chief budget analyst, Teal has been the go-to source for nonpartisan information on state spending and revenues. That will end next month when Teal retires. And budget experts say Teal’s work will be missed.
There’s a wild wolverine in Anchorage. What do city dwellers need to know?
In recent weeks, a wild wolverine has made forays into Anchorage. Here's what pet-owners, parents, and wildlife enthusiasts should know.
What’s driving Anchorage’s recent string of urban lynx encounters? Here’s what biologists say.
Last month, a lynx was spotted in Anchorage’s Airport Heights neighborhood, several miles from Far North Bicentennial Park. And on Friday, a resident captured a video of the animal walking along the Chester Creek Trail.
Why was fire prevention funding used on the Roadless Rule process in Alaska? Congress members want to know.
A United States senator from Michigan and a representative from Arizona want an investigation into why federal dollars typically used to prevent wildfires were given to the State of Alaska to work on the Roadless Rule.
After two months hunting amid record warmth, Utqiagvik whalers finally landed a bowhead
Whalers in Alaska’s northernmost town of Utqiaġvik have finally landed their first bowhead of the season, after what some veterans said was an unprecedented absence of the marine mammals amid record-setting air and water temperatures.
NTSB: Pilot inexperience and unfavorable winds factored into fatal PenAir crash in Unalaska
The flight that crashed at the Dutch Harbor airport last month, killing a passenger, landed amid unfavorable but shifting winds, according to an initial federal report released Friday. And it was captained by a pilot with relatively little experience at the controls of Saab-2000 plane he was flying, the report said.
Could tiny nuclear reactors power Alaska villages?
Dan Brouillette would continue a quest to develop mini nuclear reactors, as well as renewables and carbon capture.
Saddled with problems, new F-35 fighter jets can’t get enough spare parts
A new government report is flagging more problems with the new generation of fighter jets scheduled to come to Alaska in the next few years.
Amid a midtown Anchorage mall’s rebirth, is downtown retail in decline?
After surviving a tumultuous few years, the commercial complex formerly (and sometime still) called the Sear's Mall is at the heart of a business boom in the city's midtown district.
How would lifting the Roadless Rule change Tongass logging? Not much, both sides say
But at a U.S. House hearing Wednesday, people for and against the rule agreed that removing the roadless restrictions won't make much difference for an industry that's already a shadow of its former self.