Haaland cancels leases in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge: ‘Climate change is the crisis of our lifetime’
“With today’s action, no one will have rights to drill in one of the most sensitive landscapes on Earth,” said Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.
‘People are dying out here’: Inside ‘Tent City,’ Anchorage’s downtown homeless encampment
Homeless residents, nearby business owners and service providers say that gun violence, assaults, extortion, theft and drug dealing have proliferated, largely unfettered, in the Third Avenue encampment and surrounding streets.
Yukon Quest Alaska to hold 300-mile sled dog race as rift with Canada continues
The Yukon Quest Alaska executive director says she hopes the organization will make up with Canada one day and hold a longer race.
Two more Alaska ballot measures pass legal muster, but another is disqualified
The approved measures would impose new financial restrictions on political campaigns and grant an array of rights to workers.
Peltola, nearing one year in office, touts her support for Willow and other energy projects
As a Democrat running for re-election in an oil-producing state, she’s setting herself apart from the mainstream of her party on energy.
Anchorage Assembly temporarily boosts police, outreach and sanitation at large homeless encampments
There was a particular focus on crime, drug use and uncleanliness in the camp near Third Avenue and Ingra Street downtown.
Presbyterian Church leaders visit Juneau to plan apology for 1962 church closure
Alaska Native leaders spoke to church leaders about the harm religious organizations have done to Lingít communities through language suppression and violence at boarding schools.
Helicopter pilot injured in midair collision near King Salmon
The helicopter and a float-equipped small plane collided Monday while flying in Katmai National Park and Preserve.
Ketchikan reinstates its police chief after felony assault charge is dropped
Ketchikan Police Chief Jeffrey Walls returned to work Aug. 22.
Quinhagak’s museum has the world’s largest collection of Yup’ik artifacts, and archeologists keep finding more
This year alone they found five complete masks, new arrowheads, spoons, stick dolls, ivory earrings, ulus and more.
After surprise eviction notice, residents of a Soldotna trailer park are wondering what’s next
“There’s no need for these people to become homeless, and that’s what’s gonna happen to the majority of them,” said longtime resident Daniel Lynch.
More small airports are being cut off from the air travel network. This is why.
The pilot shortage and changing economics are to blame for legacy airlines departing regional airports.
Alaska Gov. Dunleavy replaces budget director
Neil Steininger was replaced by Lacey Sanders, formerly administrative services director for the state education department.
Alaska watches, nervously, as Ukraine war pushes more Russian oil through Bering Strait
While the ships are free to pass through the Bering Strait, its 55-mile width means that any spills would be likely to drift toward Alaska communities.
Leo the cat, missing since Juneau’s record flood, is safe
After escaping the house that tumbled into the river and then spending weeks in the woods, somehow Leo is in pretty good shape.
University of Alaska system boasts overall enrollment growth after financial challenges
The news of overall 4.7% growth systemwide comes after a five-year downward trend in student enrollment.
After burying Marshall mother, friends and family ask why it took so long to find her
Kimberly Fitka O’Domin was buried in early August, almost two months after she went missing.
Sitka’s tourism boom has brought a staggering increase in cigarette butts
What started as a community cleanup has become a legitimate scientific study.
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.
Alaska ACLU sues state Department of Corrections over suicide deaths in jail
According to the ACLU, 18 people died in DOC custody last year, the most ever in a single year.