A new e-waste program is recycling tons of batteries from rural Alaska
The Backhaul Alaska program collected and recycled over 145,000 pounds of lead acid batteries and other e-waste from hard-to-reach communities last year.
Haaland cancels leases in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge: ‘Climate change is the crisis of our lifetime’
“With today’s action, no one will have rights to drill in one of the most sensitive landscapes on Earth,” said Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.
‘People are dying out here’: Inside ‘Tent City,’ Anchorage’s downtown homeless encampment
Homeless residents, nearby business owners and service providers say that gun violence, assaults, extortion, theft and drug dealing have proliferated, largely unfettered, in the Third Avenue encampment and surrounding streets.
Two more Alaska ballot measures pass legal muster, but another is disqualified
The approved measures would impose new financial restrictions on political campaigns and grant an array of rights to workers.
Peltola, nearing one year in office, touts her support for Willow and other energy projects
As a Democrat running for re-election in an oil-producing state, she’s setting herself apart from the mainstream of her party on energy.
Anchorage Assembly temporarily boosts police, outreach and sanitation at large homeless encampments
There was a particular focus on crime, drug use and uncleanliness in the camp near Third Avenue and Ingra Street downtown.
Quinhagak’s museum has the world’s largest collection of Yup’ik artifacts, and archeologists keep finding more
This year alone they found five complete masks, new arrowheads, spoons, stick dolls, ivory earrings, ulus and more.
After surprise eviction notice, residents of a Soldotna trailer park are wondering what’s next
“There’s no need for these people to become homeless, and that’s what’s gonna happen to the majority of them,” said longtime resident Daniel Lynch.
More small airports are being cut off from the air travel network. This is why.
The pilot shortage and changing economics are to blame for legacy airlines departing regional airports.
Alaska watches, nervously, as Ukraine war pushes more Russian oil through Bering Strait
While the ships are free to pass through the Bering Strait, its 55-mile width means that any spills would be likely to drift toward Alaska communities.
Leo the cat, missing since Juneau’s record flood, is safe
After escaping the house that tumbled into the river and then spending weeks in the woods, somehow Leo is in pretty good shape.
University of Alaska system boasts overall enrollment growth after financial challenges
The news of overall 4.7% growth systemwide comes after a five-year downward trend in student enrollment.
After burying Marshall mother, friends and family ask why it took so long to find her
Kimberly Fitka O’Domin was buried in early August, almost two months after she went missing.
Providence breaks ground on behavioral health crisis center in Anchorage that aims to keep people out of emergency room
The center will have space for 24 people who need mental health and substance-use stabilization.
ConocoPhillips says court case is likely do-or-die for Alaska’s Willow oil project
Willow would be the first large project constructed in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
This remote Alaska island is home to hundreds of feral cattle. But should it be?
Some have wondered whether Chirikof Island, trampled by hooves, should instead be returned to seabirds that could desperately use more habitat.
Alaska education board bans trans athletes from girls’ high school sports
The change will apply to all public high schools in the state competing under the Alaska School Activities Association.
Mat-Su Borough welcomes Alaska’s biggest solar farm
The 8.5 megawatt solar array is expected to power about 1,400 homes, and has already begun feeding energy into the Matanuska Energy Association grid.
Anchorage man charged with robbing same credit union branch twice in 2 months
According to the charges, Etuale Ioane’s mother contacted police with a tip that the robber was her son, after seeing his photo in local news media reports.
A Bethel social worker rewrites their own story as they help queer youth find peace and belonging
LGBTQ+ youth face high rates of suicide, self-harm and housing instability. But an organization in Alaska called Choosing Our Roots is helping them find safe homes.