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Measure 3 would add "only" to Alaska's voter law โ a narrow safeguard, its sponsor says. Opponents note noncitizen voting is already illegal and say it would foreclose a path for American Samoan residents, U.S. nationals who aren't automatically citizens.

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Hilcorp wants a new North Slope gravel mine โ one small permit amid a gravel-demand surge as Arctic oil development expands and converts wetlands, one project at a time.

Two former legislative colleagues split over Ballot Measure 1: Schrage says restoring donation caps curbs big money, Carpenter says it caps small money while leaving unlimited outside spending untouched. Voters decide Aug. 18.

Doyon opens a Descendant Registry this fall, giving shareholders' descendants a path to hiring preference, training and internships. Gather birth records early.

A decade after a regional plan promised lower energy costs, Bering Strait villages are still studying the problem โ as Kawerak seeks contractors to assess the diesel infrastructure keeping 20 communities running.

A Seattle think tank that advocates for denser housing is recommending Anchorage zoning changes, one of which the city already adopted in 2025.

Over 70 Lucille Lake homes share one risky way out โ a steep rail crossing that's also the only path for fire and ambulance. Wasilla eyes $5.25M to fix it.

A Sterling man faces a DUI charge after his Impala pulled into the path of a northbound pickup on the Sterling Highway at mile 84 on Tuesday evening, injuring the other driver.

A hiker injured in a fall near Ketchikan called for help Tuesday afternoon, and Alaska Wildlife Troopers and the Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad reached him by boat and took him to a hospital.

49 people, one Wasilla house, one very eventful drug warrant: an arrest on scene, a runner nabbed on a federal warrant, and more charges on the way.

A Bering Sea storm will drop 1 to 2 more inches of rain across Southwest Alaska through Tuesday, with sustained winds pushing water levels up to 1 foot above normal along the Bristol Bay coast.

Regulators shifted unused halibut bycatch to Bering Sea trawlers' cod season, reviving the bycatch fight as halibut stocks sit near record lows.

Juneau Assembly raised the income limit for senior and disabled veteran property tax hardship exemptions to 300% of federal poverty guidelines, broadening eligibility for tax relief.

Several hundred Doyon shareholders won't get a distribution until they update their mailing address. Check the Undeliverable Mail List at doyon.com.

Anchorage Assembly rejected an investigation into Assembly Member George Martinez's travel Tuesday, 5-6, after Vice Chair Daniel Volland switched his vote citing flaws in the accusation.

A new suction-dredge application near Nome enters the same regulatory pipeline that just rejected IPOP's massive Bonanza Channel gold mine

Senate panel voted 6-5 to advance a Montana coal land swap giving the Crow Tribe mineral rights in exchange for federal parcels, but skipping environmental review.

Anchorage's salary commission drafted a resolution to raise the next elected mayor's pay to $183,019, a 26% increase that would take effect only after the 2027 election.

Sitka's new Coast Guard dock is switching from steel to plastic piles, a change that both speeds up the work and shrinks the zones where pile-driving noise could disturb marine mammals.

A Wasilla resident got a new gas station to study building a sidewalk on a street where kids walk to the bus. The commission also OK'd a youth mental health facility.

Can a microbe mine coal waste for rare earths? Alaska researchers got $4.7M to find out โ chasing a domestic source for minerals the U.S. mostly imports.

Anchorage would spend $476,000 of its own money on repairs to aging city buildings after state grants were cut, and it's on the hook for that much a year through 2031.

A self-funded Hillside road district would draw $150,000 from its own reserve to fix its roads rather than raise assessments, one of two doing so this summer.

A UAF mathematician won a $150,000 NSF grant to build better tools for understanding complex networks, from how they're structured to faster ways to solve problems on them.

Homer electric members are paying about $3.30 less since July 1 โ a rare bit of good news, while Interior members brace for a 62% cost-of-power spike.

Cook Inlet drift gillnetters get just one 12-hour opener in Area 3 Thursday, driven by coho conservation โ a federal EEZ closure and state limits are squeezing the fleet's access as coho harvest runs over its cap.

Fall chum and coho subsistence fishing is closing across the upper Yukon as the run falls short, the last in a season of closures that moved steadily up the river.

Pacific halibut are at a 40-year low, and Alaska's waters took the deepest 2025 cuts, including 22% in the Central Gulf, hitting commercial, charter and subsistence fishing alike.

Winter ferry bookings are open on the Alaska Marine Highway โ the federally funded "road" for the four-in-five Alaska towns with no highway โ even as some communities say this winter's schedule is still too thin.

Kaktovik and Nuiqsut residents told the North Slope Borough Assembly that homes are cracking and settling, and asked for repairs and new programs to address the damage.

Two union contracts before the Anchorage Assembly would sweeten benefits โ rehire leave credit, easier holiday pay, master's tuition โ for a labor shortage.

Troopers arrested nine at Salmonfest, eight on felony drug distribution charges, though the dispatch names no one and gives no drug quantities.

The NRA's political arm gave the ticket of leading Alaska governor candidate Tom Begich an F and three Republican tickets A+ in its new primary grades.

Alaska's freight network is shifting from moving oil out to bringing online-shopping deliveries in, as pipeline throughput slides and e-commerce surges through Anchorage.

The road to Bear Valley Elementary already backs up at pickup, so the plan is to make it narrower โ which, the project admits, won't fix the jam.

A planned 8.5-mile path would finally get walkers and cyclists off Palmer-Fishhook Road's white-knuckle shoulders โ if the Mat-Su Borough can pull together the $4.5 million to build it.

Alaska is considering a 19-year rent-free lease for the FAA to install navigation and weather equipment at Hooper Bay Airport, one of six rural airports where the agency seeks similar no-cost deals.

A 303-acre hillside feeding Potter Marsh is permanently protected, so the debate now is over access โ where trails and parking go, and which neighborhood streets take the traffic. A 20-year plan gets a hearing Aug. 10.

Alaska will cover districts' travel to a September school safety summit in Anchorage โ even as many face budget deficits and a staffing crisis.

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