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Sitka is seeking a developer for another lot at its former pulp mill site โ long mostly empty after the mill's 1993 closure, and now steadily filling up.

Sen. Murkowski cosponsored a Senate bill to restore Temporary Protected Status for Afghan nationals, allowing those in Alaska to remain and work legally if Congress approves.

Alaska's arts council is hunting for a new executive director while its fiscal 2027 grant deadlines and free application workshops roll on this month.

Alaska would give up its claim to 480 acres on the Yukon so three Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans can finally get land allotments cut off when Congress ended the program in 1971.

AFN holds a four-hour listening session in Dillingham on Aug. 12 to gather subsistence harvesters' input on how Alaska's subsistence future should be managed.

Kodiak's Assembly may start booting members who miss a quarter of meetings, down from half, tightening the rule on no-shows. One member wants more virtual attendance instead.

Fish leave DNA in the water, and a new bill would let NOAA read it to fill survey gaps โ like the Aleutian king crab stock with no survey data at all.

Alaska wants to raise the income ceiling for child care assistance from 85 to 105 percent of the state median, though it's contested whether the expansion needs new money.

Anchorage's cargo boom brings nighttime jet noise โ and a new study warns the fixes might just shift it from one neighborhood to another, not end it.

Weather, or a rebuilt railroad bridge? As Talkeetna's bank erodes, one river-watcher says the bridge choked the river โ and that's the fixable cause.

Four wildfires broke out on Alaska's North Slope within 17 minutes Thursday, across 40 miles of tundra, the kind of lightning-driven cluster expected to grow as the Arctic warms.

A free Dillingham clinic Aug. 13 lets BBNC shareholders write stock wills, choosing who inherits their shares instead of leaving it to default law.

The Yukon is mostly closed to salmon fishing in 2026 โ kings, chum, likely coho โ with runs badly depressed and kings barred under a U.S.-Canada pact.

Ketchikan anglers can keep more kings this month even though the run is slow, though area closures still apply and the department hasn't explained the increase.

Sen. Murkowski cosponsored a bill to let the Coast Guard commandant sign local support agreements faster, potentially speeding up infrastructure deals at Alaska installations like Kodiak and Seward.

Alaska households have until Friday to enter the lottery for 400 permits to spear whitefish by lantern light on the Chatanika River this fall.

The Alaska House gaveled in and out in minutes, its special session going nowhere. And that's the way they want it.

Anchorage's board gave a Glen Alps lot a public easement the city paid $130K for โ over objections it's still access to big public land with few ways in.

Alaska is making its first awards under a $272 million federal rural health program, $4.5 million to 19 projects, with more coming each Friday. Demand hit $2.5 billion.

Tribal transportation was Alaska's biggest federal award last week โ $2.68 million for rural road access, in a state with fewer road miles than Connecticut.

Alaska State Troopers charged Amanda Craig of Glennallen with drug possession after seizing cocaine from her vehicle during a Richardson Highway stop on July 17.

Alaska just took over hazardous waste permitting from the EPA โ the first state in 25+ years โ over tribal and industry objections to the handoff.

A retiring Arctic judge's caseload has been moved to an unassigned docket with no one scheduling hearings, and the court hasn't said how the region's cases proceed.

A sixth straight below-average week points to a weak chum run near Petersburg, with pinks running low and mixed, as the season's test fisheries close out.

Situk River sockeye runs have collapsed to their lowest in five years, forcing ADF&G to tell anglers the sport fishery has ended even though the daily limit stays at three fish.

Coho fishing on the lower Kuskokwim has been very slow in early August amid high water and low Bethel sonar counts, though escapement should still be met.

Bethel Mayor Rose "Sugar" Henderson filed a letter of intent to run for re-election to her city council seat in the Oct. 6 election.

Both certain to advance, Sullivan and Peltola are already spending at a record pace โ because Alaska's seat could decide control of the U.S. Senate.

Candidate Shelley Hughes wants to link Alaska's railroad to Canada and reach Nome โ a roughly $25 billion pitch with no identified funding source.

Tanana's village health clinic has reopened after a tribe-led rehabilitation of a building that needed structural repair, one of nearly 40 clinics TCC runs in the Interior.

A fuel break cleared in 2019-20 helped keep the Grandview Fire out of Sterling โ a case of wildfire prep paying off, with no injuries and no homes lost.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski will vote against Todd Blanche for attorney general, citing politicization of the Justice Department and concerns about a nearly 2 billion dollar fund.

Sens. Murkowski and Merkley are pressing Interior on who's paying for Park Service signs, ordered by Trump, that would criticize a Smithsonian museum's own exhibits.

Nine senators led by Sullivan asked Treasury to sanction 29 ships supplying China's fishing fleet over its illegal catch. Treasury hasn't acted.

A Whittier man is fighting a plan to serve alcohol on the family Ptarmigan glacier-tour boat, which has run dry for decades. The Assembly decides by Aug. 15.

Six apprentices finished Tanana Chiefs Conference's yearlong clinical training in Fairbanks โ the first cohort where everyone who started made it through.

Days before the final vote, the Bering Sea pollock fleet holds an Anchorage job fair โ as salmon bycatch, and a new mandatory chum cap, roil the 2026 campaign.

Sealaska Heritage Institute concluded its ninth annual education conference in Juneau, drawing hundreds of educators from Alaska and beyond for sessions on culturally responsive teaching.

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