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Craig's City Council accepted a $7,000 state grant for the public library Thursday. The state expects the city to match it dollar for dollar.

Got a beef with the city, a state agency or a nursing home? Three ombuds offices explain what they can do for you Oct. 8 at Loussac Library. It's free.

A Senate committee advanced a five-year renewal of Earth MRI, the federal program mapping what's under Alaska's ground, the same day its funding ran out.

Kenai's Old Town Park would get a new playground and basketball court under an $800,000 plan, about half the cost of the bulldoze-and-start-over version.

Kenai's parks commission wants to shift $150,000 from a parks shop design to fixing tennis and pickleball courts. The pickleball crowd wants concrete.

Sandhill cranes, moose and a pond that may or may not have tripled in size: Mat-Su's platting board OK'd a five-tract, 72-acre split in Knik-Fairview.

Nome-based NSEDC traded unused flathead and yellowfin sole quota for 900 more metric tons of rock sole, so its community quota fleet can keep fishing.

Senate blocked a bill asking states to consider making big data centers pay for grid upgrades. Alaska's senators voted yes; most Democrats called it optional.

A Senate bill to ban congressional stock trading failed to advance Wednesday, though Alaska senators Murkowski and Sullivan both voted yes.

Senate confirms Keith Sonderling as labor secretary, 47-41, with Alaska senators Murkowski and Sullivan voting yes.

Congress passed a Murkowski-backed bill keeping federal ALS treatment access and research programs running through 2031, two days before they would have lapsed.

Sitka's Assembly voted 7-0 to start contract talks with its only finalist for city administrator. Salary and start date are still up for negotiation.

Six tech executives signed a voluntary AI safety accord with Trump featuring self-policing and no government enforcement.

The Senate voted down a push to make the State Department report on Israel's human rights practices. Murkowski voted no; Sullivan didn't vote.

The Senate passed a national college NIL bill 77-22 Monday. Murkowski voted yes; Sullivan didn't vote on any of the day's six roll calls, all on the bill.

Chugach asked regulators to nudge its Beluga River gas price up a penny. After staff found errors, regulators cut it by 39 cents instead, starting Thursday.

A South Carolina man drank his way onto a diverted Delta flight's zip-tie list and into two years of federal prison. The Seoul-bound plane landed in Anchorage.

State regulators found math errors in AVEC's rural power credits. The fix raises the credit in 44 of 46 village power systems and lowers it in two.

Want power at your new place on the Kenai? Homer Electric's design fee doubles to $1,000 Tuesday, and three-phase hookups lose $3,000 in help.

New COVID-19 shots aimed at the XFG variant are at many Alaska pharmacies. State epidemiologists want clinicians recommending them for 6 months and up.

UAA got $725,000 in federal money for nursing simulation gear for rural students, where clinical placements are a big limit on how many can enroll.

Koniag will pay $1,200 to original shareholders 62 and older on Oct. 9, its fall Elder Benefit. The benefit began in 2018; a spring payment was added in 2024.

An Anchorage joint venture won a $4.7 million federal contract to manage a Chicago Social Security building, one of 37 awards the partnership has landed since October 2025.

The feds took back $5.56 million meant for Alaska digital skills classes, devices and internet access. What's left: $67,466, about 1.2% of the award.

Juneau's airport board votes Thursday on $4.9 million for new snow gear, from front-end loaders to a runway broom, mostly paid for with FAA money.

Two Anchorage companies owned by Natives of Kodiak Inc. won $37.6 million in Border Protection contracts for plant eradication and kennel facility work.

The Tustumena's planned replacement picked up $32.3 million more in federal money. The low bid ran $49 million over budget, and Kodiak faces a ferry gap.

A 2024 fire took both of South Tongass' ambulances. Ketchikan's Assembly takes up $347,000 in federal money Monday to replace one, plus a heart monitor.

JBER's F-22 paint booths keep crashing on outdated software, halting maintenance. The Air Force plans to pay the original designer about $80,000 to fix them.

Anchorage police could get $15,000 to train staff who steer people toward treatment instead of jail. The Assembly takes up the donation Tuesday.

Prince William Sound's robotic ocean sensor runs on a computer and battery nobody makes anymore. A $354,971 federal grant aims to fix that problem.

UAS students got about $1.47 million in federal Pell Grants last school year. It's need-based aid for undergraduates, and it never has to be paid back.

Sealaska sold its European seafood business to Japan's Sojitz and says the sale will help it expand shareholder programs. Neither side disclosed the price.

The Aleut Community of St. Paul Island has a $649,890 federal grant for a gifted-and-talented math project for Pribilof School District students.

Eaglecrest has a new general manager, but the old acting one keeps acting pay into November to help with the handoff. The board says it costs about $6,000.

Copper River EMS has $291,000 in federal money to rebuild its main 911 ambulance instead of buying a new one. Its backup rig is nearly 30 years old.

Cordova's hospital got $3 million to replace a backup generator it says can't power the building in an outage. Its last four tries drew no bidders.

Cook Inlet Tribal Council received $262,483 to expand Parent's Journey, a 20-year parenting program in Anchorage serving Native families who make up 66% of children in out-of-home care there.

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