ConocoPhillips backs away from North Slope upgrade
One of Alaska's largest oil producers is canceling a major construction project on the North Slope, and is blaming the state's new oil tax...
Anchorage School District restores elementary art classes in budget proposal
The school board will vote on the final budget proposal next week.
Despite high inflation, Americans are spending like crazy — and it’s kind of puzzling
Americans began the new year with a spending spree, but businesses are not sure how long it can last.
What’s going on with Alaska’s 17 wildfires?
Though there are blazes across the state, their location and size make for a relatively low threat. Listen now
Juneau Assembly considers repealing 1980s-era development rules, hazard maps
The new proposal departs from previous attempts to adopt new, more precise hazard maps that would expand downtown homes' land use restrictions.
State SNAP backlog hits close to home in Homer
An attorney suing the state says the backlog in food assistance — and the burden of reapplying for aid — falls unequally on rural Alaska.
Galvin, Young accuse each of other of lying during debate
The debate between the candidates for Alaska’s sole seat in Congress became contentious Thursday, with challenger Alyse Galvin saying she’s tired of U.S. Rep. Don Young misrepresenting her position on issues.
Extension Of Patriot Act Falls Short In Congress
Libby Casey, APRN – Washington
Alaska’s Republican Congressman Don Young voted against extending key provisions of the Patriot Act last night. The...
Gov. Dunleavy proposes suspending motor fuel taxes through June 2023
In Alaska, the tax on gasoline is 8 cents per gallon.
Feds charge Utah man with wife’s murder aboard cruise ship in Alaska
Federal authorities are charging a Utah man in the murder of his wife aboard a cruise ship in Southeast Alaska. Listen now
Updated: Lt. Gov. Mallott resigns, citing ‘inappropriate comments’
The governor plans to hold a press conference in Anchorage at 3 p.m.
LISTEN: Bear spray can blast bruins despite wind, cold and age, study says
The research is published in the Journal of Wildlife Management and shows that even in a strong headwind, bear spray still travels far enough to hit a bear, and that it also remains effective at temperatures well below zero.
Ask a Climatologist: Will May gloom bring summer doom?
May weather can't tell us much about what the rest of the summer will hold in Southcentral Alaska. Listen now
Governor Hickel hospitalized
Former Governor Wally Hickel was hospitalized early this morning after complaining of chest pains. His assistant Malcolm Roberts says Hickel was feeling better by...
Anchorage officials aim to keep camping in check as winter shelters wind down
The Anchorage Assembly is taking up an ordinance to limit the size of encampments and create safe parking for people living in their cars.
There’s another bear contest in Alaska, and the awards range from cutest bear to most chill
As for best fisher-bear? That award went to Scuba Sue at Anan Wildlife Observatory.
How can Alaskans go back to the office, and what’s lost if we don’t?
Can the corner office-dwellers let their masks down if the cubicle workers can't? Doing office in the coronavirus age raises so many questions.
Anchorage’s back to back (to back?) snowstorm totals pushing city toward December record
Back for our Ask a Climatologist segment, Brian Brettschneider with the National Weather Service says there are a couple ways to think about the snow, including one measurement that gets at how it feels to, say, shovel it out of driveways.
The child care crisis is hitting rural Alaska hard
Kotzebue has not had a state-licensed child care center since the last facility closed in 2011. It's considered a "child care desert," like much of the state.
Massive Disabled Cargo Ship in Route to Dutch Harbor
When it finally arrives in Unalaska next week, the Shin Onoe will be one of the biggest vessels to ever stay in port here. It’s 150 feet wide, with a 60 foot draft when it’s full of coal, soybeans, or iron. Right now, it’s empty. It was traveling along the Great Circle shipping route to Prince William Sound early this week to pick up cargo when its turbocharger failed, just west of Attu island.