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.

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Anchorage woman wounded in domestic violence shooting, vehicle chase

Police say Isaiah N. Savok, 27, fired point-blank at an SUV near Point Woronzof early Sunday, then rammed it off a nearby road.
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From Austin to Anchorage, U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums

Many U.S. cities are throwing out parking requirements, hoping to end up with more affordable housing, better transit and walkable neighborhoods.
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Anchorage Museum exhibit explores climate change through resilience and care

“How to Survive” uses works from Alaska and beyond to highlight how investing in community and caring can be forms of climate mitigation.
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Unauthorized $10M steel purchase for Haines dock provokes borough political crisis

Borough officials were surprised and angered by the purchase, which comes as newly elected leaders had expressed interest in changing the dock's design.
The glass door to the entrance of the PFD office. In black lettering is "PFD State of Alaska, Lobby hours Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m."

Alaskans begin filing for 2024 Permanent Fund Dividends

Eligible Alaska residents have until March 31 to file PFD applications with the state Department of Revenue.
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5 dead after planes collide and catch fire on a Tokyo airport runway

All 379 people on a Japan Airlines jet got out safely, but five of six people aboard the Japanese coast guard plane it collided with died.

After Wrangell’s deadly landslide, dogs helped the search and rescue team

After Wrangell’s deadly landslide last month, search and rescue teams worked around the clock for days looking through debris for six missing people. Teams of dogs assisted.
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Feds award $9M to research carbon capture for proposed Southcentral Alaska coal power plant

Carbon capture storage is drawing attention at the state level, though critics say it’s expensive and may not have a large impact on emissions.
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A suit over federal emissions rules caps an active year for Alaska in federal court

Attorney General Treg Taylor has cast the growing volume of litigation as a response to threats from the federal government and outside groups.

Tribes organize ‘First Indigenous Sovereign Habitat Tribal Conservation District’ from Bering Sea to Interior Alaska

38 tribes would like to co-manage land near their villages, to have their say over federal acreage that's been in land-use limbo since 1971.
Former President Donald Trump speaks into a microphone at a pdoium

A lawsuit challenging Trump’s eligibility for the Alaska ballot hasn’t advanced

A second state has disqualified Trump from the ballot. A lawsuit challenging Trump's eligibility in Alaska is stuck at step 1.

5 people treated after Christmas carbon monoxide exposure at Anchorage home

The residents were trying to warm the McCarrey Street home Monday, but fire investigators haven’t yet identified the source of the carbon monoxide.
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Man charged with manslaughter, DUI in woman’s death near Big Lake

Billy Sheldon, 33, was over twice the legal limit when he fatally struck Kotzebue resident Athena Chambers early Thursday, troopers said.

Ex-Alaska trooper gets 4 years for planned sexual abuse of teen he pulled over

Vance Peronto, 63, was sentenced on one count of attempted child sexual abuse in the 2018 case stemming from a Soldotna-area traffic stop.
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Troopers suspend search for woman missing under Eagle River ice

Active efforts to find 45-year-old Amanda Richmond have been called off, after extensive air and water searches with drones and sonar.
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Passenger in Anchor Point plane crash dies as NTSB report shows buckled wing during descent

Alaska State Troopers say Kristen Fenske died Wednesday morning, after the Dec. 8 crash that killed pilot Kurt Stjean.
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Making Technicolor Glass Art From Upcycled Junk | INDIE ALASKA

Amy Vail grew up in a family of stained glass artists and continues that legacy with her Alaskan creations.
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Want to learn endangered Alaska Indigenous languages? There’s an app for that.

The new Sealaska Heritage Institute language apps, available on Apple and Google phones, are called SHI: Learning Haida and SHI: Learning Shm’algyack.
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In 2023 fentanyl overdoses ravaged the U.S. and fueled a new culture war fight

For the first time in U.S. history, fatal overdoses peaked above 112,000 deaths, with young people and people of color among the hardest hit.
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Roof of vacant, condemned Anchorage warehouse partially collapses under snow load

The owner of the warehouse on Gambell Street said the building had been condemned and was slated for demolition.