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Anchorage wants to turn the informal group steering its Chugach access tax money into a formal board with defined expertise — one that vets trailhead and road projects in public rather than privately.

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Girdwood loves its trails and ski runs, and an ordinance up Tuesday would run the town's park plans through the same public review the rest of Anchorage uses.

Kodiak's Assembly is fighting over what a proposed 3% marijuana tax should fund before deciding whether to even put it to voters in October.

Bethel's commission overseeing public safety and its huge taxi fleet is down to two of six seats — with a taxi fare hike on its agenda in a busy hub town.

The North Slope's phone co-op wants five more years for its tower and shop on Deadhorse Airport land, a no-bid extension of an existing $14,250-a-year lease.

The state may convey 31 acres near Ester to an applicant without an auction under a public-use provision — but the notice won't say who gets the land.

Retired APD Lt. Tony Henry was elected 115-to-119 to the police seat on Anchorage's police and fire pension board, pending Assembly confirmation Aug. 4.

An Eagle River brush-disposal contract worth up to $1.16 million drew one bidder, the second sole-bid road contract in the same service area in weeks. The Assembly votes Tuesday.

A Fairbanks medical campus wants to rezone for a bigger surgery center; neighbors and planning staff want to keep the buffer. The commission split 3-3 and punted to Aug. 11.

Some Sitka phone customers can't reach 911 after a vehicle hit a utility line. Until it's fixed, call dispatch directly at 907-747-3245, staffed 24/7.

A heat advisory puts the Copper River Valley at 78 to 83 degrees through Sunday. Hydrate, skip midday exertion, and check on neighbors not used to the heat.

More big wind for the Interior, with 70 mph gusts possible around Delta Junction and the Alaska Range. Trees, power lines and high-profile vehicles all at risk.

The FAA is amending a GPS airway near Kodiak this fall, part of Alaska's slow statewide switch from old ground beacons to satellite-guided flight routes.
The federal subsidy keeping Medicare drug premiums down ends this year, so many Alaska seniors will likely pay more in 2027. Low-income enrollees on Extra Help are mostly shielded.

Visiting anglers can keep a fourth king salmon in Southeast this fall, since the catch ran low — though the same math that eased the limit could tighten it.

Prince William Sound's king limit stays at one fish through Sept. 15, right as the bite heats up near Glacier Island. Four terminal harbors still allow two.

Anchorage's creeks are open for coho but locked down on kings, and on Ship Creek you can't even lift one out of the water before releasing it.

Europe is a major buyer of Alaska seafood, and a paperwork snag with the EU — one NOAA's own systems can't yet handle — is threatening some of those sales, with the clock running out Nov. 30.

Alaska is moving to return nearly 40 acres near Tok that it says was wrongly conveyed to the state, so the federal government can complete a Native allotment claim in Emma Northway's name.

Lawmakers were called back for a special session on taxing natural gas. The House already killed the bill, so both chambers are now meeting just to meet.

The NTSB found the Bering Air crash that killed 10 near Nome resulted from a chain of preventable failures — an overweight plane the company routinely flew heavy, severe icing, and a pilot overloaded in the final minutes.

Fairbanks planners voted 7-3 to reject eight duplexes on York Avenue, worried about density on icy sidewalk-less roads that feed an elementary school. The Assembly decides Aug. 6.

The smoke over Fairbanks is from the Tatlanika Fire, which the state is monitoring rather than suppressing because no structures are threatened. It's grown to about 2,000 acres.

Juneau says the next Suicide Basin glacial flood is on its way, expected Aug. 1-9, with about 1,900 valley homes in the advisory area. Make a plan before the river rises.

Outside groups poured another $210,000 into the Alaska Senate race this week, mostly against Sullivan — the latest in a year where Peltola leads the money flow but Sullivan holds other edges.

The mountain goat area west of Harlequin Lake closes to RG170 hunters tonight — goat numbers there crashed from 122 to a dozen over the years, and a recent rebound hasn't convinced the state.

Seward Lagoon's youth-only king salmon fishery closes Friday night at midnight, ending the summer window for anglers 15 and younger.

Alaska lost federal jobs faster than nearly every state in 2025, and one economist says the two-year drop, 15.8%, is steeper still. The ripple hits housing, grants and whole towns.

Bristol Bay caught nearly as many sockeye as last year but is running 40% behind on value. Strong run, soft prices.

The first Tlingit opera in recorded history opens in Juneau Sept. 11 — in the Tlingit language, telling the Tlingit-Russian War from the Tlingit side.

Artist Ramy Brooks has installed two Yukon fish-camp salmon sculptures at a Fairbanks health center — arriving as the real Yukon runs collapse and closures shut off fishing across the drainage.

Five cruise ships are headed to St. Paul Island as the Unangax̂ community seeks new footing after its snow crab economy collapsed, leaving a $2.7M hole.

Chitina dipnetters can catch sockeye but must release all kings this season, as weak Copper River runs raise an old question: which fishery fishes less first?

The Anchorage Assembly studied how to remove one of its own members, a power it has never used and, on a coalition body, likely won't. The member in question sat in on the session.

A Kodiak assembly member wants every nonprofit in a category to get the same grant to avoid favoritism; others prefer need-based amounts. The Humane Society, currently zeroed out, is the flashpoint. Vote Aug. 6.

Kodiak's spaceport is ramping up for military launches just as the FAA proposes waiving the environmental and tribal reviews that would scrutinize the buildup.

A sacred Athabascan rock formation stranded inside Denali National Park since 1980 cleared its first Senate hurdle Wednesday, moving closer to return to Doyon after a 47-year wait.

Four decades of Dorothy Grant's Haida fashion, including a wedding dress on loan from the Smithsonian, are on view in Juneau through Oct. 17. Free for anyone under 18.

Fairbanks trails host skiers, mushers, fatbikers and berry pickers — and now tour operators driving through neighborhoods to reach them, with no rules yet.

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