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As peak season packs the Kenai, a company wants to build a cabin inside the 50-foot buffer that keeps development off the river's salmon-bearing banks.

A developer wants townhouses and a six-plex on a quiet Kenai dead-end โ the most density the zone allows โ and at least one neighbor isn't sold on the traffic.

The feds want comment on a Douglas Island cruise terminal whose two years of pile driving could "harass" 10 marine mammal species in a humpback feeding ground.

SCF spent nearly a year of review just to build a greenhouse. Now the Assembly weighs easing 40-year-old building limits at its Tudor and Patterson corner.

A Fox homeowner woke before dawn to burglars stealing copper and fuel, went to investigate, and traded gunfire with them. No one was hit, and the suspects got away.

Rain and cooler air are headed for Interior Alaska this weekend โ a real break for fire crews who've spent weeks protecting cabins, fish camps, and allotments.

Jade Fire near Ambler is 40% contained with unburned ground between the fire and the community landfill, while 22 smokejumpers freed from two controlled fires are now fighting new ignitions near Ruby.

Smokejumpers and aircraft are battling two wildfires near Ruby that together cover 660 acres and are currently pushing away from the village and nearby Native allotments.

Record and clip each salmon before it goes in your cooler, or risk a summons like the Wasilla man cited at Kasilof on June 27.

Kodiak shares its island with the biggest bears on Earth โ up to 1,300 pounds โ and a free Saturday Q&A teaches the skills that keep maulings remarkably rare.

Alaska is changing the rules for water reservations โ the main tool for keeping water in rivers for salmon. Critics say it favors industry; DNR says it's about efficiency.

A small fire on a Flat Lake island forced Mat-Su firefighters to boat their crew across to reach it โ routine flames, minus the road to get to them.

Kodiak's Fire Protection Area No. 1 is short-handed enough that its board told the chief to build a new position โ a people problem, not a money one, as volunteers get harder to find.

A driver is in critical condition after a solo crash and vehicle fire closed the Richardson Highway near milepost 210 for two and a half hours on Sunday morning.

Bad concrete will keep Fairbanks' Wescott Pool closed all summer, pushing reopening to November โ and the fix just cost another $837,000, over $12 million total.

Alaska's spring subsistence bird harvest is older than the U.S. โ and a 1916 treaty effectively banned it until 1997. This week's update continues a hunt Native communities never gave up.

Troopers arrested a Tazlina man on domestic violence and attempted robbery charges after a reported assault on the Richardson Highway. The charges remain accusations.

From the day an Alaska custody or divorce case begins, neither parent can take the kids out of state, sell marital property, or drop insurance without agreement or a judge's OK.

Fairbanks woman accused of vehicle mischief allegedly tried to beat it with fake location data sent to troopers โ but witnesses and her real data placed her there.

Alaska State Troopers arrested Anchorage resident Garrett Andrews, 22, after he walked armed and intoxicated down Funny River Road near Soldotna on Friday night, forcing drivers to swerve.

A Juneau artist is beading the story of a Tlingit ancestor who fought a giant octopus into a clan robe โ a piece that will become at.รณow, sacred property with a soul.

A routine lot-line change near Noyes Slough surfaced a few snags โ an unpermitted garage, a too-close house, and a floodway where you can't dig without an engineer's OK.

Alaska cited six bars and restaurants for servers pouring with expired training cards โ one Anchorage spot for the fifth time in four years, now risking its liquor license.

Juneau hosts the world premiere of แธดutulagaaw, the first Tlingit opera in recorded history, Sept. 11-20, performed entirely in Tlingit language.

Karluk โ a village 88 miles from Kodiak city, ringed by refuge โ is replacing its failing water system, closing a gap most of America never has to think about.

Veterinary care is coming to about 80 rural Alaska tribal communities July 1, where Alaska Native children are hospitalized for dog bites at about twice the U.S. rate.

Alaska's 17-candidate governor scrum got a deadline to shrink. It shrank by one Democrat โ while a dozen Republicans eyed each other and nobody blinked.

Alaska's deadline could have thinned its 17-way governor race. It barely did: the GOP field stayed packed, and the headline move was just a McGuire running-mate swap.

Bristol Bay's sockeye season is open and the fish are pouring in โ a roughly 45-million run. The shadow: depleted Nushagak kings swim the same waters as the nets.

Four Alaska Native groups took the salmon crisis to the national tribal stage, pressing for a bigger Native role in managing runs that have collapsed on the Yukon and Kuskokwim.

Sitka doesn't have enough child care โ a problem hitting all of Alaska, driven partly by the real cost of the safety rules that make care expensive to provide.

Fairbanks subcommittee drafted a Chena River plan aiming to restore winter ice, protect floodplain infrastructure, and address water quality threats including PFAS and invasive weeds.

Juneau's harbor board backed a $2.5 million state grant bid for two projects and recommended cutting the uninsured moorage surcharge to $1.00 per linear foot from $1.50.

A pregnant fin whale that died of a vessel strike was found on a Royal Caribbean ship's bow near Seward. Investigators haven't said which vessel struck it.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is happening across North America with viewer-friendly Alaska timing, and Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau have free or easy watch parties through mid-July.

A magnitude 4.2 quake near Hope shook Anchorage and the Kenai on Saturday night. Early estimates ran higher, but the reviewed magnitude is small, and no damage was reported.

Alaska's weed shops are legal, licensed, taxed โ and still can't get a bank account, running on cash since 2014. Murkowski wants to end the duffel-bag era.

Glenfarne told lawmakers the Senate's gas-line amendments โ a 9.4% investor tax, an automatic state takeover clause, tough labor rules โ could make it walk. Lawmakers say they're protecting the state.

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