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A glacial outburst flood warning is in effect on the Taku River until 11 p.m. tonight, with fast water and debris hazardous to boaters.

A dull fuel-lease notice at Utqiaฤกvik's airport hides a good story: the company keeping the northernmost airport supplied is an original ASRC business, built to serve the Iรฑupiat.

A Sitka Assembly seat opened when Tim Pike resigned โ and residents have only until July 8 to apply for the appointment before October's election decides it for good.

Cordova's shifting its schedule for the Fourth: City Hall and the transfer station close Friday, trash moves to Monday, and the library and museum keep their own holiday hours.

Families around Port Graham and Nanwalek are being asked how their Native allotments โ ancestral parcels won by proving generations of use โ should be managed. The deadline is Aug. 31.

About 60% of Alaska is federal land, so Trump's NEPA permitting overhaul hits harder here. The complaint that reviews are too slow is bipartisan; how far to cut is the fight.

Up to 7,000 cruise passengers a day hit a town of 8,000 โ so Sitka rolled out new (voluntary) ground rules to keep the visitor boom from wearing on the people who live there.

Alaska's new rules let companies inject carbon dioxide underground for storage โ with the whole fight hinging on whether it stays put or seeps into the water people drink.

A federal plan to simplify mineral royalties could shortchange states, tribes, and Native owners, as an audit finds the agency isn't collecting what it's owed.

Fishing out of Craig or Klawock? Certain fish have to come back whole โ so the dock crews counting them can do the sampling that keeps the fishery healthy.

The Supreme Court just erased limits on party spending coordinated with candidates โ unleashing money into Alaska's Senate race the same week a second Dan Sullivan made the ballot.

Sunday's rain stalled both fires near Ruby, holding them at 260 and 1,000 acres, but Tuesday's winds could dry things out again. No outdoor burning, officials warn.

Juneau's new budget ends all brushing on city trails and cuts arboretum staff โ so in a rainforest that grows back fast, the trails are now on their own.

A 62-year-old Iowa man died and a second person was critically hurt when their van rolled on Kalifornsky Beach Road near Soldotna. The cause is under investigation.

The Starry Fire south of Anderson is 70% contained, up from 65%, and crews have moved into mop-up, combing the perimeter for leftover heat. It's holding at 547 acres.

Seward is putting $200K a year toward keeping its community pool open โ the same water that once trained a hometown Olympian. Small town, big save.

A $3,000 grant is small, but the problem behind it isn't: Anchorage's shelter keeps overfilling, and its longest-held, hardest-to-adopt animals are the ones most at risk.

Alaska's about to spend nearly $350 million to replace one ferry โ the 60-year-old Tustumena. A genuine Aleutian lifeline, but the low bid went to a Louisiana yard.

New federal money for small meat processors could nudge Alaska, which imports nearly all its food, toward processing more of its own โ $60M in grants is due Aug. 7.

Tanana Chiefs Conference staffed up this week โ a former lobbyist to lead advocacy, a new tribal-priorities director, and a split of its top health job as the system keeps growing.

Governor Dunleavy declared July 6 a paid holiday for state executive-branch workers, extending the Independence Day weekend at public expense.

Juneau's shellfish rules split around July 1: personal-use king crab reopens for residents, but shrimping in Section 11-A and Tenakee Inlet stays closed with no date set.

Good news for once on the water: the Wood River sockeye run near Dillingham is so strong the state doubled the limit to 10 fish a day, through year's end.

A North Pole woman will serve 17 years for a drunk-driving crash that killed a soldier guarding Fort Wainwright's gate. Her blood alcohol was nearly four times the limit.

A driver saw a truck weaving on the Steese and called it in โ leading troopers to an allegedly impaired Fairbanks man, a gun, and a release violation.

Amid Bristol Bay's 44-million-fish sockeye run, troopers cited five commercial fishermen for closed-period, gear-spacing, and grounding violations โ the rules that keep a frenzy fair.

While rural hospitals nationwide struggle, Petersburg's has more than doubled its cash cushion in three years, to 133 days on hand, on tighter billing and better management.

Fall hunts are almost here, but Alaska's season rules are stuck in legal review with no end date, and harvest tickets are delayed. Last year's rules apply for now.

The Anchorage Museum lawn turns into an open-air Alaska makers market July 17 โ ceramics, wood, jewelry, and the chance to meet the people behind the work.

After nearly 20 years, work is underway to make Nome the first deepwater port in the American Arctic โ a ~$600M project deep enough for Coast Guard icebreakers.

Relief may be coming for one of Anchorage's everyday headaches: the airport is expanding its overflow parking lot, with the work due done by mid-November.

Wrangell and Petersburg run on hydropower from a remote mountain lake โ and a planned third turbine would draw 12 more megawatts, meaning fewer days burning costly diesel.

Sitka is running its biggest projects all at once โ and at the torn-up airport, workers are hand-carrying travelers' bags to keep flights moving through tourist season.

JBER's new water plant now serves 40,000 people, replacing a system running since 1957. Mac Nason, who wrote the case that funded it, died in 2021 and never saw it built.

Peltola toured Interior Alaska on salmon and cost-of-living โ but it's a campaign swing, not a coronation: Sullivan works the same ground and the same bycatch issue.

Petersburg just got its first MRI, so island residents no longer have to travel off-island for a scan. A July 14 open house lets people tour the new suite.

A Tanana Chiefs boat trip showcased four remote villages' needs. Who's responsible for meeting them is a tangle of federal, state, corporate and tribal roles.

Two Kasilof dipnetters were cited 12 minutes apart for the same slip: not recording their sockeye in ink โ the most common dipnet ticket there is. Write it down.

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