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More Alaska babies now qualify for a second RSV shot, including those born preterm or with Down syndrome. Parents may need to ask for it directly.

Cross three miles off Sitka and residents fish under nonresident rules, so a lingcod that's legal inshore can end your day in federal water.

Scammers posing as MEA are calling members, some with their account numbers, threatening to cut the power. MEA says hang up and call 907-761-9300.

Bulldozers are on the first 2.8 miles of the King Cove road. The 10.5 miles through the refuge that would finish it are still blocked by a judge.

A group funded entirely by a national Republican committee has spent $93,850 on six Alaska House races, including $50,800 to a Wyoming canvassing firm.

The Kenai refuge's environmental education building is getting a $48,000 exterior fix-up this fall, from a small business based in Colorado.

The Coast Guard's own inspector general found outages in Alaska's distress radio network kept it from hearing some calls for help. A fix is funded.

An uncoded clinic visit is an unbilled one, and unbilled means money the clinic never sees. IHS is paying an Anchorage firm to help catch up.

Goat hunting north of Valdez Arm closes Tuesday night, four months early. Hunters have reported five of the seven goat points allowed this season.

Tanana River subsistence fishing opens to full gear around the clock Tuesday, after six straight years of restrictions on a fall chum run that came back.

Subsistence fishing reopens on the upper Yukon in stages from Sept. 26 to Oct. 6, timed so Canadian-bound fall chum pass each stretch of river first.

The West Coast's commercial halibut season is over after six openings to catch a small quota — from the same stock Alaska fishes, near 1970s lows.

Campfires and fireworks stay banned on federal land north of Fairbanks through October 31 to prevent wildfires near homes and the NOAA facility.

A Wasilla hunter was cited after troopers found his harvested moose lacked natural evidence of sex, violating a sex-restricted hunt rule in the Eureka area.

Troopers arrested a Kenai man on a drug warrant after a Nikiski traffic stop and found 1.30 grams of meth, worth about $130 at state prices.

A Fairbanks man got 30 years for two 2012 sexual assaults. The DNA kits that linked him to both women sat untested for years before they were run.

The second man convicted in the 2022 killing of Keenan Wegener got 55 years, a few more than his co-defendant. It took four years to reach sentencing.

A bipartisan poll has Peltola ahead of Sullivan 53-47 after ranked choice, but the older voters most likely to actually turn out favor him 54-46.

A bipartisan AARP poll has Kreiss-Tomkins at 40 percent and winning a ranked-choice simulation 55-45, but a quarter of voters ranked neither finalist.

Nelchina caribou hunters could get 150 Tier II bulls in 2027. The herd has more than doubled since 2023 but is still below the state's goal.

The Army Corps is starting its environmental review of the Arctic copper mine near Kobuk, with a final decision targeted for September 2028.

Interior's proposed Arctic drilling rule would drop the standby relief rig and a whaling-ground discharge check, with subsistence losses scored at zero.

Sixteen of 18 View Drive homeowners are moving toward a federal flood buyout, but Juneau hasn't decided who carries the risk of collecting their share.

Denali's last bus of the season ran Sept. 17. The very next morning, a $6.2 million contract to fix the roads those buses depend on began.

Crews blasted the last of an unstable rock outcrop off the Richardson Highway at Milepost 210, a year after the state flagged it. Traffic is still controlled.

Juneau set aside $4 million Monday toward a $12.9 million state loan for HESCO flood barriers along the Mendenhall River, covering less than a third of the debt.

State agencies host an Employment First Conference Oct. 12-13 in Anchorage to address why only 51% of Alaskans with disabilities work, compared to 77% without.

Juneau can't vote on borrowing for permanent flood protection until October 2027, because the Army Corps won't have a cost estimate until then.

Alaska's education department is still taking comments on a rule its board killed 11 months ago. The follow-up the board asked for is harder to find.

Sitka wants second small houses easier to build in some neighborhoods and off limits in others. Shotgun Alley asked for one and was told to wait.

Alaska's four-year, $7.74 billion transportation plan is open for comment until Oct. 29 — and the draft itself says that total isn't complete.

Nine candidates are running for three Aleut Corporation board seats, and the early proxy deadline is 5 pm Wednesday. Final deadline is Oct. 14.

Alaska State Troopers arrested a 47-year-old Big Lake woman on DUI and failure-to-report charges after her SUV struck a median at Big Lake North State Recreation Area early Sunday.

An inmate at Fairbanks Correctional Center assaulted a correctional officer early Sunday, and troopers forwarded charges against her.

Troopers pulled a driver over in Fairbanks for drifting out of his lane. He blew three times the legal limit, and it was his second DUI charge.

Jonathan Lomack, 59, of Akiachak, has been missing on the Kuskokwim River since Tuesday night, with his boat found empty and search crews from three communities now in their third day looking for him.

Yakutat braced for gusts of 60 mph this weekend. The airport topped out at 37. Nobody in town is complaining that the forecast turned out wrong.

Skagway and Haines face heavy rain Saturday night into Sunday, landing on rivers already swollen by fast glacier melt. Flooding is possible.

Alaska's revised judicial ethics code takes effect Oct. 15 and clarifies when assistance-program confidentiality yields to reporting duties.

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