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Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Cover image for article: A 100 mph chase ended with a Palmer driver pinned against a tree

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A 100 mph chase ended with a Palmer driver pinned against a tree

A 100 mph chase near Palmer ended with the driver upside down in a ditch, pinned against a tree. He was already wanted on four warrants.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Palmer, Alaska

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Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Chatanika River whitefish spear lottery opens July 27

Everyone loves the lottery - this one for Fish

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago

Chatanika River, Alaska

Cover image for article: Chatanika River whitefish spear lottery opens July 27

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Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Alaska asks 3,500 voters to confirm citizenship weeks before the primary

Alaska flagged 3,500 voters as possible noncitizens and made them inactive weeks before the primary. A phone call fixes it — if the letter arrived in time.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Alaska

Cover image for article: Alaska asks 3,500 voters to confirm citizenship weeks before the primary

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Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

The CDC director vote is waiting on Lisa Murkowski

The Senate health committee couldn't vote on the next CDC director Thursday — Lisa Murkowski was out on a family emergency, and without her the votes weren't there.

by Alaska News2mo ago

Washington, District of Columbia

Cover image for article: The CDC director vote is waiting on Lisa Murkowski

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

State plans a gravel sale on the Parks Highway near Denali

Alaska is set to sell gravel from a Parks Highway site near Denali — under a system an ombudsman faulted in 2019 and the state declined to change.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago

Parks Highway, Alaska

Cover image for article: State plans a gravel sale on the Parks Highway near Denali

Wednesday, July 22, 2026Wed, Jul 22, 2026

Alaska sends kids Outside for care. A Wasilla project targets that.

Alaska sends children thousands of miles away for behavioral health care. A Wasilla proposal would build the kind of local services that could keep them home.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Wasilla, Alaska

Cover image for article: Alaska sends kids Outside for care. A Wasilla project targets that.

Wednesday, July 22, 2026Wed, Jul 22, 2026

A Parks Highway gas station, ahead of the state's traffic review

Wasilla may approve a new Parks Highway gas station before the state finishes deciding whether its driveway onto the highway is safe.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Wasilla, Alaska

Cover image for article: A Parks Highway gas station, ahead of the state's traffic review

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Water is over roads in the Lower Matanuska Valley

Heavy rain has the Little Susitna up and water over roads near North Sushana Drive, with a flood advisory for the Lower Matanuska Valley until Friday morning.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Mat-Su Valley, Alaska

Cover image for article: Water is over roads in the Lower Matanuska Valley

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

High water has Southcentral anglers waiting it out

Flooding has Southcentral anglers mostly sidelined — weirs underwater, creeks blown out, and 12-foot waves hitting the Kenai dipnet beaches.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago

Kenai River, Alaska

Cover image for article: High water has Southcentral anglers waiting it out

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Wind advisory: 50 mph gusts and 12-foot Cook Inlet waves threaten Kenai dipnetters Thursday

Yeah, maybe think about your choices before you just haphazardly go out - I don't know. I guess that's on you. Best of luck.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Cook Inlet, Alaska

Cover image for article: Wind advisory: 50 mph gusts and 12-foot Cook Inlet waves threaten Kenai dipnetters Thursday

Wednesday, July 22, 2026Wed, Jul 22, 2026

Gale winds, 8-foot seas off Utqiagvik through Thursday

Gale winds and 8-foot seas off Utqiagvik make Chukchi waters dangerous for small boats through Thursday evening, with rough water returning Sunday.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Utqiagvik, Alaska

Cover image for article: Gale winds, 8-foot seas off Utqiagvik through Thursday

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Sitka moves to fix its late-night ride problem

Sitka has few cabs, no Uber, and a hard time getting anyone to the airport. The city is rewriting its 1990s taxi rules to fix that.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Sitka, Alaska

Cover image for article: Sitka moves to fix its late-night ride problem

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Alaska Senate passes LNG bill as Republicans warn it kills financing

Alaska's Senate passed its LNG bill 11-8, and Senate Republicans immediately said the added taxes and labor rules make the pipeline unfinanceable.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Juneau, Alaska

Cover image for article: Alaska Senate passes LNG bill as Republicans warn it kills financing

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

House panel advances bill to let Alaska Native artists sell work with feathers

A Tlingit artist was made to strip the feathers off his own work and hand them to federal agents. A House committee just advanced the bill named for him.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago

Washington, District of Columbia

Cover image for article: House panel advances bill to let Alaska Native artists sell work with feathers

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Rural birth and nursing bills clear a Senate panel

A Senate panel advanced rural nursing and obstetrics bills — the kind that matter in a state where women fly to Anchorage a month before giving birth.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Washington, District of Columbia

Cover image for article: Rural birth and nursing bills clear a Senate panel

Wednesday, July 22, 2026Wed, Jul 22, 2026

Federal government to pay ANTHC $463 million over unpaid health costs

The federal government will pay ANTHC $463 million it owed for years — money the tribal health system had been covering itself across rural Alaska.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago

Alaska

Cover image for article: Federal government to pay ANTHC $463 million over unpaid health costs

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Alaska's interlibrary loan service moves to Juneau, with its funding uncertain

The 800 number rural Alaska libraries have called for 20 years is moving to Juneau — and if federal grant money dries up, it may not survive the move.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Alaska

Cover image for article: Alaska's interlibrary loan service moves to Juneau, with its funding uncertain

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

A sinkhole swallowed a Seward Highway lane, and that lane is closed for a month

A sinkhole ate a northbound lane of the Seward Highway at Potter Marsh. Crews are on it around the clock — and it stays closed until August 24.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Anchorage, Alaska

Cover image for article: A sinkhole swallowed a Seward Highway lane, and that lane is closed for a month

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Yakutat's Pacific ocean perch season closes after filling its quota

Yakutat's Pacific ocean perch season closed Wednesday after filling its 1,923-ton quota — the second West Yakutat rockfish fishery to wrap in a week.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago

West Yakutat District, Gulf of Alaska

Cover image for article: Yakutat's Pacific ocean perch season closes after filling its quota

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Ketchikan Creek opens to dip netting for hatchery king salmon

Kings are closed across much of Alaska, but Ketchikan Creek just opened to dip netting for hatchery Chinook. Wild ones go back. Residents only, net in hand.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago

Ketchikan, Alaska

Cover image for article: Ketchikan Creek opens to dip netting for hatchery king salmon

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Southeast's Dungeness season closes early on a 25-year-low harvest

Southeast's summer Dungeness season closes three weeks early Saturday on the worst harvest estimate in 25 years. Sea otters are part of the long story.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago

Southeast Alaska

Cover image for article: Southeast's Dungeness season closes early on a 25-year-low harvest

Wednesday, July 22, 2026Wed, Jul 22, 2026

Sockeye keep the drift fleet fishing while the Kenai's kings stay closed

Kasilof sockeye escapement is way past the top of its goal, so the drift fleet got another opener. The Kenai's kings are so weak the sport season never opened.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska

Cover image for article: Sockeye keep the drift fleet fishing while the Kenai's kings stay closed

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

A power outage closed Anchorage state offices, public assistance included

A power outage closed the Ingra Street state offices in Anchorage at 1 p.m. Thursday, public assistance included, for the rest of the day.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Anchorage, Alaska

Cover image for article: A power outage closed Anchorage state offices, public assistance included

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Blanche brought Alaska $180 million. He may need Murkowski's vote.

Todd Blanche handed Anchorage the biggest settlement in its history this month. Now he needs Senate votes, and Murkowski hasn't said where she stands.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Alaska

Cover image for article: Blanche brought Alaska $180 million. He may need Murkowski's vote.

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Oil is beating the forecast, and it still won't cover a dividend

Oil is running $11 a barrel above what the state budgeted. Sounds like a windfall — it wouldn't cover a single $1,000 dividend.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Alaska

Cover image for article: Oil is beating the forecast, and it still won't cover a dividend

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Alaska science runs on NSF money, and the money has slowed

NSF has awarded 55% fewer grants than at this point in 2024 — a problem for a state whose Arctic research, and its new $160 million minerals engine, run on NSF money.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago

Washington, District of Columbia

Cover image for article: Alaska science runs on NSF money, and the money has slowed

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Two Dan Sullivans, and a ballot solution the state wrote itself

The court put the second Dan Sullivan on the ballot but left the labeling to the state — and the state's fix leaves him the only candidate of 16 with no party listed.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Alaska

Cover image for article: Two Dan Sullivans, and a ballot solution the state wrote itself

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Alaska shakes the most and gets the least warning

California gets seconds of warning before the shaking starts. Alaska, which has more big quakes than any state, gets none — but that's being built.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Anchorage, Alaska

Cover image for article: Alaska shakes the most and gets the least warning

Wednesday, July 22, 2026Wed, Jul 22, 2026

Anchorage VA seeks bids for pain-management imaging table, deadline August 3

The Anchorage VA is shopping for a C-Arm imaging table used in guided pain injections for veterans. Bids close Aug. 3.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago

Anchorage, Alaska

Cover image for article: Anchorage VA seeks bids for pain-management imaging table, deadline August 3

Wednesday, July 22, 2026Wed, Jul 22, 2026

Two women reported overdue near Glennallen were, per troopers, 'just out enjoying Alaska'

Two women reported overdue near Glennallen turned out to be perfectly fine — or as the trooper dispatch put it, they "were just out enjoying Alaska."

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago

Glennallen, Alaska

Cover image for article: Two women reported overdue near Glennallen were, per troopers, 'just out enjoying Alaska'

Wednesday, July 22, 2026Wed, Jul 22, 2026

Petersburg pushed back when the state pulled Sullivan off the ballot

Newly released letters show Petersburg residents demanding the state show its evidence for pulling their neighbor off the Senate ballot.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Petersburg, Alaska

Cover image for article: Petersburg pushed back when the state pulled Sullivan off the ballot

Wednesday, July 22, 2026Wed, Jul 22, 2026

Alaska elections hearing reveals FBI contact, no precedent for 'good faith' test

State election officials admit they used a new good-faith test only on one candidate. They still refuse to explain why the FBI called.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Alaska

Cover image for article: Alaska elections hearing reveals FBI contact, no precedent for 'good faith' test

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Eleven Sitka islands lose power for a day as crews swap a channel cable

Eleven islands off Sitka go dark for eight hours on July 31 while crews swap out an aging underwater cable. Charge everything Thursday night.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Sitka, Alaska

Cover image for article: Eleven Sitka islands lose power for a day as crews swap a channel cable

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

The AI money came first. The data center moratorium came Thursday.

Days after AI money turned up in his filings, Kreiss-Tomkins called for a data center moratorium — one a governor has no power to directly impose.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Alaska

Cover image for article: The AI money came first. The data center moratorium came Thursday.

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Bristol Bay sockeye limit stays at 10 fish through year's end in Wood River and Nushagak-Mulchatna drainages

Bristol Bay doesn't seem to be having the problems with fish the rest of the state is.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago

Bristol Bay

Cover image for article: Bristol Bay sockeye limit stays at 10 fish through year's end in Wood River and Nushagak-Mulchatna drainages

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Aleutians East newsletter flags fisheries as defining issue in 2026 Alaska races

Aleutians East Borough won a legal fight over salmon fishing rules in May and is now directing voters to check where candidates stand on fisheries in the 2026 governor, Senate, and House races.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Aleutians East Borough, Alaska

Cover image for article: Aleutians East newsletter flags fisheries as defining issue in 2026 Alaska races

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Alaska's trade school in Seward can't turn out graduates fast enough

Alaska's vocational school in Seward made USA TODAY's national top-schools list again — and most of its students have jobs lined up before they even graduate.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Seward, Alaska

Cover image for article: Alaska's trade school in Seward can't turn out graduates fast enough

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Western Alaska leaders take food security to a circumpolar assembly

Western Alaska tribal leaders are in Nunavut for the first circumpolar Inuit assembly in nearly a decade, with food security high on the agenda.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago

Iqaluit, Nunavut

Cover image for article: Western Alaska leaders take food security to a circumpolar assembly

Thursday, July 23, 2026Thu, Jul 23, 2026

Murkowski targets federal conditions on Southeast's hydropower licenses

Southeast's power comes from dams on Tongass land. Murkowski's bill would limit what the Forest Service can demand as those licenses come up for renewal.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Washington, D.C.

Cover image for article: Murkowski targets federal conditions on Southeast's hydropower licenses

Wednesday, July 22, 2026Wed, Jul 22, 2026

VA research is losing staff and trials as Senate panel presses on $43M cut

No state has more veterans per capita than Alaska, which makes a Senate fight over VA research cuts a fight about roughly 1 in 10 Alaskans.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago

Washington, District of Columbia

Cover image for article: VA research is losing staff and trials as Senate panel presses on $43M cut

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