Frustration builds for Southcentral restaurants amidst third shutdown
Halfway through the city’s third pandemic shutdown, Anchorage’s hospitality industry is struggling, and increasingly frustrated.
Rep. Lance Pruitt violated campaign finance laws, watchdog finds
Rep. Lance Pruitt violated Alaska’s campaign finance laws and should pay a penalty. That’s according to staff for the state’s elections watchdog agency, the Alaska Public Offices Commission.
Checks of $600 are likely, aid to states is not as Congress negotiates pandemic relief bill
"This is not just paper. This is hope," Sen. Lisa Murkowski says of coronavirus relief bill.
‘Lightning’s going to strike somewhere’: Juneau health care worker hospitalized, another treated after COVID-19 vaccination
A Juneau health care worker had a "serious allergic reaction" Tuesday and was hospitalized after being injected with the COVID-19 vaccine produced by drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
Gov. Dunleavy will get COVID-19 vaccine, but stops short of recommending it for Alaskans
“I’m going to do what I think is best for me,” Dunleavy said at a news conference on Tuesday. “I would encourage others to do what they believe is best for them.”
Thirty-one years ago, Redoubt eruption triggered seismic shift in Alaska volcano research
John Power remembers a set of foreboding, low-frequency volcanic earthquakes under Redoubt 23 hours before the eruption. That was AVO’s first hint of the six-month eruption that followed
Russian Mission post office closure threatens infant formula supplies
Russian Mission’s post office has been closed on and off for nearly six months, and mothers have had to scramble to get infant formula for their babies. It's led to inconvenient, expensive, and uncertain options.
Gwich’in, conservation groups ask court to block ANWR oil leasing
The Trump administration has scheduled the first-ever lease sale in the coastal plain for Jan. 6, and it's moving toward allowing seismic work in the area this winter. But the groups behind the recent court filings are asking a judge to prevent the administration from doing both until the ongoing lawsuits are resolved.
With ‘laser focus,’ Anchorage School District commits to in-person study beginning Jan. 19
The district is taking a phased-approach that prioritizes elementary and special-needs students.
Alaska guns sold in private sales discovered in secret shipments to Mexican drug cartel
Smuggling charges against the now-jailed Miguel Moreno-Cortez allege he was an Alaska-based gun purchaser who was part of a larger network exporting guns from the United States to a drug-trafficking organization called Autodefensas de Michoacán Cartel in the Mexican state of Michoacán.
Large crack in Haines hillside has geologists worried about more slides
Geologists studying the landslide that swept Beach Road are concerned that more material could break loose. During helicopter flights, they identified a deep crack in the hillside extending south from the crown of the existing slide area.
Dunleavy wants state to cut ties with banks that won’t fund Arctic oil projects
Gov. Dunleavy says his administration will introduce a bill during the upcoming legislative session that would require state departments to sever their relationships with financial institutions that won’t finance oil and gas development in the Arctic.
The first COVID-19 vaccine shipment has arrived in Alaska; shots could start Tuesday
Alaska health officials say the first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine from drug company Pfizer arrived in the state late Sunday on a UPS plane, and shots are expected to begin this week.
Trump administration may hire private ship to fill Arctic ‘icebreaker gap’ by year’s end
The White House is racing to lease an icebreaker. One candidate is the Aiviq, owned by a Republican mega-donor, and with a history in Alaska waters.
Dunleavy proposes nearly $5,000 in dividends for Alaskans, cuts other state spending
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Friday proposed a budget that would cut state spending on government services, but would also pay out nearly $5,000 in Permanent Fund dividends.
Open ICU beds in Anchorage dwindle to four as state reports record deaths
Alaska set a record for the number of COVID-19-related deaths reported in a single day on Saturday when health officials announced that 18 Alaskans had died of the disease.
Four Alaska Native people missing after visiting Fairbanks in the fall
Searches continue for four Alaska Natives who have been missing after coming to Fairbanks in the Fall, but state officials say they don't believe the disappearances are related.
Rep. Lance Pruitt files lawsuit challenging Anchorage election results
Democrat Liz Snyder narrowly beat Pruitt in the November election, and a recount last week affirmed her win by 11 votes.
Cluster of Aleutian peaks could be single supervolcano, scientists say
If the researchers' suspicions are correct, the newfound volcanic caldera belongs to the same category of volcanoes as the Yellowstone Caldera and others that have had super-eruptions with profound global consequences.
As deaths and cases rise, pressure grows on Dunleavy to mandate masks
Municipal and health care leaders are pushing Alaska GOP Gov. Mike Dunleavy to take a new approach to contain Alaska’s COVID-19 outbreak, as case counts rise, schools remain closed, businesses clash with customers over face coverings and hospitals warn that they're stretched thin.