Alaska Natives celebrate U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act
With the Court’s decision to back the right of tribes to oversee child custody cases came a collective sigh of relief among Alaska Native leaders.
Anchorage taxpayers will pay full bill for homeless shelter contracting failure
The city’s new municipal attorney vows her office won’t allow a mistake like this to happen again.
Dunleavy slashes education funding boost as part of budget vetoes
Vetoes total more than $200 million, including half of the one-time boost the Legislature added for schools.
School district leaders react to Dunleavy’s partial veto of proposed K-12 funding increase
Administrators said they’re disappointed and concerned by the cut, the biggest single veto from this year’s budget.
NTSB responds to crash that killed longtime Bush pilot Jim Tweto
Tweto, 68, and 45-year-old Shane Reynolds of Idaho died Friday after crashing on takeoff from a hunting camp near Shaktoolik.
At an Anchorage oncology clinic, doctors and patients confront ‘terrifying’ chemo drug shortage
The Alaska Women’s Cancer Care in Anchorage has been forced to ration the generic drugs cisplatin and carboplatin, due to short supplies.
Anchorage Assembly delays vote on putting $11M towards homeless navigation center
The proposed navigation center and shelter would sit at the corner of Tudor and Elmore Roads and would host 150 beds, with a surge capacity of 200 people.
In ‘major victory’ for Southeast Alaska trollers, federal appeals panel reverses fishery closure
In a five-page ruling, a federal appeals panel stayed a lower court ruling suspending the fishery to protect Southern Resident killer whales.
Dunleavy again vetoes research project on salmon bycatch
The $513,000 would have looked into the origin of salmon caught by the Bering Sea pollock fleet.
High-ranking Alaska National Guard officer arrested on domestic violence assault charges
Prosecutors say Brig. Gen. Wayne Don's latest arrest violates conditions of a deal struck after another incident involving his wife from November.
All 5 passengers aboard Titan sub are dead after a ‘catastrophic implosion’
All five passengers aboard the missing Titan submersible have died following a "catastrophic implosion of the vessel," the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday.
Alaska legislators lack the votes to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget vetoes
Support for an override is short of the 40 votes needed to call a special session, and shy of the 45 needed for an override.
‘Alaska’s secret wild salmon prices hurt everybody,’ fisheries journalist says
Intrafish's John Fiorillo argues that secretive price setting in Alaska salmon fisheries strains relationships between fishermen and processors.
New Anchorage airline aims to bring year-round tourism to Alaska
Northern Pacific Airways plans to offer flights from Japan and Korea to the Lower 48 with a layover in Anchorage, starting next spring.
Locals and tourists celebrate the summer solstice in downtown Anchorage
Downtown transformed into a giant block party on Saturday, during the Anchorage Downtown Partnership's Summer Solstice festivities.
Angoon students name, launch first dugout canoe since 1882 Bombardment
It was a celebration of enduring culture more than 140 years after the village was devastated by the U.S. Navy shelling.
Anchorage green financing program closes biggest deal to date
The C-PACER program helps finance energy efficiency upgrades for commercial properties, like the former Aviator Hotel downtown.
‘Nothing else should matter’: At Anchorage roundtable, Sullivan addresses youth mental health crisis with U.S. Surgeon General
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy discussed the youth mental health crisis in Alaska at a roundtable in Anchorage.
Aniak residents shocked by quadrupled power bills
Aniak Light & Power's unannounced rate hike has left residents and businesses trying to figure out how they'll keep the lights on.
The Parks Highway Igloo’s being renovated to sell booze
The Parks Highway architectural curiosity known as the Igloo is the planned location for a new distillery.