Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly considers $38.5M Homer hospital bond
The bond would go towards acquiring land and much needed maintenance for South Peninsula Hospital.
Federally funded heat pumps are coming to Prince of Wales Island
Spruce Root partnered with Alaska Power & Telephone to secure the $2.5 million award, which will also support a technician training program.
Half of U.S. military bases in the country are in ‘health care deserts’
For hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and their families, when the Pentagon orders them to find health care off base there is none.
Relatives of King Cove couple killed in suspicious Anchorage fire await answers
Niece Amy Carlough says James and Kathryn Gould, who were killed in the February fire, ran a general store in King Cove before their deaths.
Alaska has a new nonprofit newsroom in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Mat-Su Sentinel founder, editor and reporter Amy Bushatz has worked in news for more than two decades and said she aims to fill a local news void.
State sues Alaska Motor Home after customers say they were swindled and harassed
Prosecutors say the company abruptly closed Friday without providing refunds, likely affecting hundreds of customers.
An influx of chum salmon in the Canadian Arctic could be the same fish missing from Western Alaska
A recent study found that climate change is expanding salmon habitat into the Arctic, but the new fish aren’t exactly welcome in Canada.
An Alaska energy blogger breaks down the looming, much-nuanced Cook Inlet gas shortfall
Erin McKittrick looked at a few different possible timelines related to the gas shortfall that utilities and producers say is coming.
Anchorage Juneteenth festivities kick off this weekend
Juneteenth is recognized as the oldest African American holiday in the United States, and marks the anniversary of when the last American slaves were freed in Texas on June 19, 1865.
What medieval calligraphy taught this Eagle River lawyer | INDIE ALASKA
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In this Indie Alaska feature from @PBS and @pbsdigitalstudios hear how Greg Henrikson, a lawyer in Eagle River, became fascinated with Medieval History and delved into medieval calligraphy...
Anchorage sisters tap readers’ rapture for romance with new bookstore
Beauty and the Book Alaska specializes in the romance genre- a growing trend in Alaska and around the country.
Murkowski votes with Democrats on IVF bill. Sullivan joins most GOP senators to block it.
Alaska's senators say they support the reproductive technology, but they split on a Democratic "show us who you are" vote.
Juneau man dies in Seattle hospital after a city-owned truck struck him
The 38-year-old man was lying in the drive-through lane of a Mendenhall Valley business when he was struck.
Family of man fatally shot by Anchorage police lobbies to view body camera footage
Monte Handy, father of 34-year-old Kristopher Handy, said the family wants to see what happened for themselves.
Juneau shelter seeks foster homes for 50 cats removed from single residence
A Juneau Animal Control officer says large groups of cats, like the one seized earlier this month, can start with just two animals and snowball from there.
Environmental groups ask feds to reconsider the trans-Alaska pipeline and plan for its removal
Petitioners say the climate impact of oil merits another look at the pipeline that transformed Alaska. Gov. Dunleavy responded with derision.
As Alaska’s boreal forest warms, land managers face tough questions about how, or whether, to respond
Reporter Lois Parshley explores whether and when humans should accept, resist or direct climate change's impacts.
2 men tried to illegally smuggle snowmachines from U.S. to Russia, feds say
Prosecutors say Sergey Nefedov and Mark Shumovich tried to evade U.S. export controls on snowmachines during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A petition to put king salmon on the endangered species list is raising alarm across Alaska
People across Alaska are reacting to a petition that would grant Gulf of Alaska king salmon Endangered Species Act protections.
Anchorage restaurants can now start serving alcohol 2 hours earlier
Under the new rules approved by the Assembly, restaurants can serve alcohol starting at 8 a.m.