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Four U.S. senators, including Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, introduced a bill to renew the federal ECHO grants that fund rural Alaska's telehealth links between local clinics and distant specialists.

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Anchorage would sell two private firms the right to keep part of the City Hall lot building-free โ $80K under appraisal, for a downtown project not yet filed.

Federal and state authorities lodged a settlement with Duran Construction over Clean Water Act wetlands violations, but the public comment period has not yet been scheduled.

Those clunky old jet bridges at the Anchorage airport are wearing out, and the state is replacing them gate by gate through 2028. Two more are up for bid now.

Kenai weighs using federal housing grant money to help fund water, sewer and street work on Sixth Street, with a public hearing and vote Wednesday.

After a two-year fight, neighbors got Chugach to drop a 65-foot tower from a south Anchorage substation rebuild. A smaller fence-and-noise dispute is left.

Alaska and Canadian crews are fighting a 20- to 30-acre wildfire 3 miles south of the Alcan Highway, with no evacuations or highway impacts expected.

A cabin fire near the Chatanika River north of Fairbanks spread into a quarter-acre wildfire Sunday. Smokejumpers worked to contain it and watched it overnight.

A 71-year-old Georgia man who came to fish the Kenai River was found dead near a Sterling boat ramp Friday. Troopers say nothing suspicious has been found.

WINDY AGAIN, SUCKERS

Strong winds are hitting the Anchorage Hillside and Turnagain Arm, gusting up to 60 mph through Tuesday morning. Secure loose items โ power outages are possible.

Rural Alaska buys a year of fuel in one summer barge delivery, so the Iran-driven price spike will lock into winter bills โ with heating fuel hitting $15/gallon in some villages and the state's main subsidy covering none of it.

Those flames and smoke at Fairbanks airport this week are a scheduled firefighting drill, Aug. 3-7 โ timed with notice so no one mistakes them for wildfire.

Amid a defense boom โ icebreakers, a Coast Guard base and missile-defense launches โ Kodiak is moving to send a member to D.C. for infrastructure money.

HHS is cutting federal rules governing Native welfare-to-work programs run by Alaska's tribal nonprofits โ over objections from tribal organizations that said they weren't properly consulted, and that called it a sovereignty concern.

Anchorage would sell the old Government Hill fire station to Chugach Electric for $470,000, no bidding, since Chugach already leases it for a communications tower.

Sport anglers out of Craig and Klawock have to keep rockfish, lingcod and salmon whole until the dock so creel samplers can measure the catch.

Inpatient psychiatric care gets a 2.3% Medicare rate bump Oct. 1 โ and it reaches Alaska, where mental health care runs through hospital psychiatric units.

Mat-Su's planning commission backed a $9 million southern road route over a northern one pegged at up to $31 million, overruling a staff recommendation. The assembly decides next.

Fairbanks troopers arrested three impaired drivers over the weekend, all well over the limit โ including one who blew 0.248 with cocaine allegedly in his truck.

Anchorage Assembly recognized four Eklutna youth interns who spent the summer harvesting salmon and moose for an Elders Freezer Meal program, then delivered meals to tribal Elders' homes.

Anchorage votes Tuesday on $1.4M for police, including a surveillance center that logs cars, faces and movement โ paid for with seized cash and federal money that never reaches the public budget, in the rare state whose constitution promises a right to privacy.

Alaska's school-improvement grant approvals are stalled by staff vacancies at the state โ with districts facing an Oct. 31 deadline to lock in their reimbursements.

Juneau concerned that folks aren't getting rides.

A Wasilla man was cited for driving a motorized vehicle in Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge, where off-road use is restricted to permitted activities in specific seasons and terrain.

Kenai's school board is trying to write AI classroom rules firm enough to matter but loose enough to last, the same bind every district is in. They want them set by fall.

Hey! No feeding the bears....allegedly.

Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche set a floor on Alaska LNG tax breaks at 75% off, saying the borough will not accept less than break-even on a $23.6 billion to $28.4 billion facility.

As Spokane and Europe burn in record heat, Alaska stays cool and barely burning โ a regional weather quirk. The Arctic overall still hit record-low ice.

Most of the 19 deer Alaska moved to the southern Kenai last fall died over a brutal winter, but the state is releasing 15 to 20 more this fall to try to build a future huntable herd.

A rescued brown bear was moved from the Alaska Zoo after a fight left her hurt, and the backlash brought threats against the other bears, closing the exhibit.

Anchorage votes Tuesday on just over $1 million for nonprofits providing food, emergency shelter and other essential services to the city's most vulnerable residents.

Juneau's tribal casino opened through a federal opening since rescinded, and now faces the state, a family lawsuit and doubt about whether it's even legal.

At a Municipality of Anchorage press conference last week, MEA's CEO warned that Southcentral could see rolling blackouts as soon as November if Cook Inlet gas falls short โ the first time in 45 years he says he can't guarantee power.

The Kenai River personal use dipnet fishery closed for 2026 after a late-run sockeye return near 3 million, again clearing Fish and Game's escapement goals. Kasilof stays open through Aug. 7.

An audit of at least $11.8 million in Anchorage spending that skipped purchase orders โ and the city's public transparency tracker โ goes to the Assembly Tuesday.

Cook Inlet is apparently in trouble, well, unless you think rolling backouts are a good deal. And I'm sure somebody in the world does, somewhere

A Haida class spent two years retranscribing a single 74-line migration story, uncovering meaning a century-old English translation had flattened โ and connecting a scattered Haida diaspora through the work.

Juneau hunters can grab two cheap Fish and Game classes before fall, scope mounting for $15 or a full day of wilderness survival for $25. Spots are limited.

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