News

All news stories, regardless of topic (local, statewide + national news stories, as well as Talk of Alaska, Alaska News Nightly, Alaska Insight, Alaska Economic Report). Some news stories may also have other categories marked, which will also put them on a subpage. Not all news stories will fall into a subpage.

scientists

100 million years ago, dinosaurs lived in Interior Alaska. A research team went looking for them.

Paleontologists Tony Fiorillo and Yoshitsugu Kobayashi spent many hours considering footprints left behind by at least half a dozen ancient species.
chum salmon

Hatchery strays could increase the risk of salmon suffocation in streams across Southeast Alaska

Scientists have long warned that hatchery salmon can compete with wild fish for resources, including oxygen.
Akiachak

Water hookups come to Alaska Yup’ik village, and residents are thrilled to ditch their honey buckets

Most of Akiachak’s nearly 700 people began getting modern plumbing for the first time this spring and summer — and finding their lives transformed.
the Anchorage Correctional Complex

Anchorage inmate dies after 2 days in custody in 7th Alaska inmate death this year

Tristan Andrews was housed at the Anchorage Correctional Complex when he was pronounced dead on Aug. 29. He was 29 years old.
A woman with glasses posses in front of a forest background.

Alaska’s newest education commissioner discusses trans athletes, increasing child literacy and reducing turnover

Deena Bishop is just finishing her first month as Alaska's top education official.
A crowd of people wave yellow signs

Mat-Su school board votes to sideline student representative, despite overwhelming opposition

The Matanuska-Susitna school board voted to remove most opportunities for their student representative to participate in board work.
A woman in a bright neon hoodie operates a trash truck's mechanical arm, to pick up a recycling bin

A large increase in trash shipping costs in Southeast Alaska has leaders exploring solutions

Petersburg's new trash contract comes with a 34% price hike, which would pile onto the community's already sky-high living expenses.
a food tray

Haines’ sole daycare loses its food assistance program

The inspections necessary to qualify for the program will not be offered virtually anymore.

Good Medicine exhibit at Anchorage Museum features Indigenous healers and medicine people

Good Medicine includes paintings, illustrations, a medicine wheel, a women’s house and a men’s house – which are traditionally used for healing, teaching and meetings. 
a veteran

Feds will visit Western Alaska to offer Native Vietnam-era veterans land

Alaska Natives who served during the Vietnam War era, as well as their heirs, can claim up to 160 of the 29.5 million acres available.
a group of scientists

A deep dive into the Yukon River’s ancient history could result in a new name for a rock formation

The rocks are exposed along a more than 100-mile stretch of the middle section of the Yukon River, between Galena and Kaltag.
a speed limit 65 mph sign on a stretch of road

2 dead in separate Labor Day Sterling Highway crashes

Troopers say Monday's crashes, at Mile 71.5 and 100 of the highway, left a Wisconsin woman and a Clam Gulch man dead.
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Dunleavy appoints new regent to University of Alaska board 

Stephen Colligan is Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s third attempt to fill the Board of Regents seat, after Bethany Marcum and Tuckerman Babcock.
Washington, D.C.

As federal workers are ordered back to their offices, pockets of resistance remain

In some corners of the federal government, management and employees remain at odds over what the future should look like.
a condo

After a disaster like Juneau’s August flood, mental health can be a neglected part of the recovery

Mental health experts say many people who experience a disaster feel a grief that lasts for weeks, months and even years.
Two f-35 fighter jets are parked in front of a beige aircraft control tower

Contractor selected to build nuclear power plant at Eielson Air Force Base

Eielson will be the first U.S. military installation to get a commercialized and licensed microreactor.
A woman holds up a large salmon

I caught the world’s largest silver salmon with a pole spear | INDIE ALASKA

Katya Karankevich is breaking records in the spearfishing scene but she's doing it in Alaska while battling tides, tourists, and glacial silt.
A glacier seen from the air with large bowed striations coing out iniot ht ebay

Two people presumed dead in plane crash near Yakutat have been identified

Clayton McMartin, 59, and Melissa McMartin, 58, from Texas were believed to be on the plane.
a woman speaks into a microphone behind a podium

Anchorage Mayor Bronson sued by former city manager for wrongful termination

Amy Demboski's sprawling 24-page lawsuit includes numerous allegations against the mayor and high-level city staff.
A group of people hold up a giant check while standing behind large batteries

A new e-waste program is recycling tons of batteries from rural Alaska

The Backhaul Alaska program collected and recycled over 145,000 pounds of lead acid batteries and other e-waste from hard-to-reach communities last year.