How the Anchorage School District is proposing to close a massive budget gap
Among the proposals: closing schools, increasing class sizes and outsourcing sports.
Board of Fisheries delays decision on how to manage faltering Nushagak king salmon runs
The board voted unanimously to postpone action on three proposals to modify the longstanding Nushagak king salmon management plan.
Three Bears Alaska to make Southeast debut with Saxman grocery store and gas station
Three Bears Alaska, a chain with locations in Southcentral and Interior Alaska, plans to open a new location in Saxman, just south of downtown Ketchikan.
One of Ketchikan’s own scores a spot on Forbes’ ’30 Under 30′ energy list
Kiera O’Brien says growing up in Alaska inspired her to pursue a career focused on fighting climate change.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks feedback on new Alaska Native relations policy
The agency hopes that the new policy, more specific than its Native American relations policy, will help improve relationships between federal employees and Alaska tribes.
Alaska Rep. Eastman, contending with Red Scare-era disloyalty clause, advances toward trial
The roots of Alaska’s disloyalty clause come from a Hawaiian dockworkers’ strike in the 1940s.
After years of high wages in Alaska, other states are catching up
State economist Neal Fried, who recently wrote about the trend, says there are are a few reasons why Alaska’s kept up a high hourly wage rate for so long.
As Hilcorp drills for more natural gas, some Ninilchik neighbors refuse to sign on
Hilcorp is the main producer of natural gas on the peninsula. As it looks for more gas, the company needs to extract the resource from beneath private parcels like Don Shaw’s.
How Alaska’s congressional delegation voted on the same-sex marriage and railroad bills, and why
U.S. Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski and Congresswoman Mary Peltola split and united in surprising ways on recent bills.
Iditarod’s last-minute entrants include Australian making unexpected return
Christian Turner is an unlikely entrant in the 1,000-mile sled dog race, but not for lack of experience: He’s a two-time finisher, placing his highest at 15th in 2015, his last Iditarod.
Alaska News Nightly: Friday, December 2, 2022
What a merger between Kroger and Albertsons could mean for Alaska. Also, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hopes to improve relationships with Alaska Native Tribes. And donations pour into Stebbins after the community's only grocery store burned.
Line One: Living with the End in Mind
On the next Line One Prentiss Pemberton speaks with Ordained interfaith Chaplain, Barbara Becker who will discuss her new book, HEARTWOOD, which chronicles her search to find the answer to 1 Question: Can we live our lives more fully knowing someday we will die?
Anchorage woman seeks justice for boyfriend killed outside their home
Brad Robert’s death was the 24th homicide in Anchorage this year.
Interior Department puts $40M toward community relocation efforts for Newtok and Napakiak
“We’ve never really done anything like this before in this country, particularly for tribes,” said Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland.
Donations pour into Stebbins as village reels from loss of only grocery store
The ANICA Stebbins store was the only local source for groceries and fuel in the community of just over 600 residents. It burned down on Tuesday.
Syphilis cases in Alaska continue to climb, compounding the state’s STD challenges
Syphilis cases increased dramatically last year in Alaska, which has had some of the nation’s highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases in recent years.
Supreme Court will hear challenge to Biden’s student debt-relief program
The Supreme Court on Thursday put President Biden's student loan relief program on ice for now, agreeing to hear arguments about the program in February.
A Sitka fish processor lost everything in 2020. Now it’s planning a comeback.
The 2020 wreck of its fish processing barge in Bristol Bay could have been the end for Northline Seafoods, but the Sitka-based operation is planning a comeback – in a big way.
GCI Aleutians fiber optic cable damaged, likely by ship’s anchor
GCI does not expect the damaged cable to delay its plans to turn on service to Unalaska by the end of the year.
Former Alaska couple ordered to pay $1.47M for fraud against Yakutat elder
A state attorney says Carla and Vernon Sigler took 63 percent of Yakutat elder Neva Ogle's money, in handshake deals and forged checks.