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Juneau's proposed Statter Harbor fee would more than triple operators' costs
Juneau wants Statter Harbor's charter operators to pay about $1.8 million a year, more than triple last year — and they say they can't pass it on.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago2 min readAI
Bristol Bay students can apply for a December leadership forum
Bristol Bay high school students have until Oct. 9 to apply for a youth leadership forum in Anchorage in December.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Haines Highway paving means 20-minute waits through Sunday
Paving on the Haines Highway means waits up to 20 minutes through Sunday, and Klukwan drivers have to change entrances partway through Saturday.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Kenai's airport expects to reopen its main runway around Sept. 21
Kenai's airport expects to move flights back onto its rebuilt main runway around Sept. 21, ending four months of landing planes on a taxiway.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage board sets seven property appeal hearings for next week
Anchorage owners filed a record 1,953 assessment appeals. The city had already found about 660 homes over-assessed before the hearings began.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Fiber easement for four Koyukuk River villages grows to 96 acres, and comments close Oct. 12
Tanana Chiefs Conference expanded a fiber optic easement to 96 acres to bring high-speed internet to four Koyukuk River villages, with public comments due Oct. 12.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Three quarters of Alaska's planned college-rule cuts fall on student aid
Alaska's student aid agency plans to cut 205 of its rules, most governing financial aid, under a statewide order to shrink regulation.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
DNR gives records denial power to two job titles, no named employees
DNR Commissioner John Crowther gave records-denial power to two job titles instead of named staff. The change makes it unclear who can now refuse public records requests.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Prince William Sound seine season ends Monday, after Friday's Cannery Creek opening
Prince William Sound seining closes for the year Monday night. The last openings reached hatchery waters that are usually off-limits to the fleet.
by Bill AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Some Alaskans on HealthCare.gov are due $500 refund checks in October, but nobody has said how many
About 73,300 Alaskans who buy unsubsidized health coverage on HealthCare.gov will receive $500 checks starting in October, but those without any marketplace coverage won't qualify.
by Alaska News1w ago2 min readAI
Southcentral is 3 Bcf short this winter, and producers told lawmakers the gas runs out in 2029
Southcentral Alaska faces a natural gas shortage by winter 2029 unless it imports liquefied natural gas or taps North Slope supplies, Hilcorp and Chugach told lawmakers Thursday.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Unimak Bight scallop grounds close tonight with the season's 7,500-pound quota filled
Alaska closed Unimak Bight to commercial scallop fishing for the rest of the 2026/27 season effective Thursday after catch reports showed the 7,500-pound guideline would be met.
by Bill AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
West Coast halibut catch falls to a fifth of June's rate as NOAA adds a sixth period
The West Coast halibut fleet can't catch its full allocation — a sign of strain in a coastwide stock, near 40-year lows, that Alaska also depends on.
by Bill AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Juneau driver, 33, dies in Hyer Road crash in Palmer
A Juneau driver died Thursday morning after his vehicle became airborne over the Hyer underpass in Palmer and struck a concrete support.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Alaska pauses weekly rural health awards with $207 million of $272 million announced
Alaska has announced $207 million of a $272 million rural health award across 217 projects, pausing its weekly announcement schedule as it processes the remaining awards by an Oct. 30 deadline.
by Melinda Communities.News1w ago1 min readAI
Prince William Sound anglers still limited to one king salmon a day
Anglers in most of Prince William Sound are held to one king salmon a day — half the usual — through Sept. 15, under a restriction over low king numbers.
by Bill AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
SEARHC is hiring for 21 Juneau-area jobs, half of them in dentistry
SEARHC is hiring for 21 jobs in the Juneau area this week, nearly half of them in dentistry, with signing bonuses on some clinical roles.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Sitka takes household hazardous waste free for two days next month, but not lithium-ion batteries
Sitka opens free household hazardous waste collection Saturday and Sunday at the Wastewater Treatment Plant, accepting oils, paints, antifreeze, and batteries except lithium-ion types.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Alaska Democrats ask Anchorage court to strike Tagle from November ballot
Alaska Democrats are back in court to remove Republican Jose Tagle from the ballot, after Dahlstrom certified him over an APOC finding against him.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago3 min readAI
Nine new deep-sea sponge species confirmed in Gulf of Alaska and Aleutians
Scientists found nine sponge species new to science off Alaska, one so strange it needed its own genus. Alaska now claims 232 kinds of sponge.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Alaska clerks are under four weeks out from local elections
Alaska clerks have under four weeks to get local elections ready, and one deadline in the state's own training had already gone by when they were told about it.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Alaska proposes new limits on what insurers pay to treat injured workers
Alaska is proposing caps on what insurers pay to treat injured workers, including limits on creams, patches and compounds. Comment closes Oct. 9.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Kodiak posts its election guide in Tagalog for the island's Filipino voters
Kodiak posted its Oct. 6 election guide in English and Tagalog — reflecting the island's Filipino community and a long effort to help those residents vote.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Oil above $101 puts Alaska's budget on a war in the Persian Gulf
Every dollar oil moves is worth about $35 million to Alaska's treasury. Brent closed above $101 Wednesday, up more than half from a year ago.
by Alaska News1w ago2 min readAI
An ordinance would tighten oversight of Anchorage's staffing overruns
Anchorage's government has run past its budgeted position count five years running. Three Assembly members want future overruns to need the mayor's sign-off.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Federal record rates Ketchikan's Water Street viaduct 'Poor'
The Water Street viaduct in downtown Ketchikan, carrying 14,000 vehicles a day, is rated poor, but the state is funding only repairs, not replacement.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Two Juneau airport approaches are down, with no FAA timeline to fix them
Two instrument approaches to a Juneau airport runway are out of service, and the FAA has given no timeline to restore them.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
A third Baranof Island goat zone closes early as the state guards the herd
Baranof Island's Lisa Creek goat zone closes Sept. 13 after two billies filled its quota — the third zone shut down early this year over population worries.
by Bill AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Dense fog advisories end across Southeast Alaska after quarter-mile visibility
Fog cut visibility to a quarter mile or less across parts of Southeast early Thursday, thickest along the road to Juneau's airport. It has since lifted.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
North Slope oil is running below the state's forecast so far, and the price is running above it
Alaska's oil is flowing below the state's revenue forecast while the price runs above it. The two effects roughly offset, and the year is only ten weeks old.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Three Aleutians dams could be reclassified as threats to life downstream
Three Aleutians dams could be reclassified "high hazard," meaning their failure would threaten lives downstream, under a draft open for public review.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
The Legislature will spend $50,000 defending the seizure of a pilot's plane
A six-pack of Budweiser cost an Alaska bush pilot his $95,000 plane. The Legislature has now voted $50,000 to defend that at the Supreme Court.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Weather cancels Koniag townhalls in two villages, three weeks before the board vote
High winds canceled Koniag's first two 2026 shareholder townhalls in Akhiok and Old Harbor on Wednesday, replacing them with meal and sign-in gatherings as the proxy deadline approaches Sept. 30.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
NOAA is paying $735,000 for more cleanup at a site Alaska will not close
NOAA is paying $735,000 for another year of cleanup at a former weather office site, where the state has refused to close out one building yet.
by Melinda Communities.News1w ago1 min readAI
A remote Alaska village's firefighting enterprise lands more federal work
A firefighting company owned by the remote village of Nulato landed more federal fire work — part of a tribal enterprise that's grown to 200-plus local jobs.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Alaska Supreme Court hears appeal over Kotzebue officer's immunity in 2022 shooting
Supreme Court heards Kotzebue case
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Alaska Fishermen's Fund appeals council to decide denied injury claims Oct. 14
Alaska commercial fishermen whose injury claims were denied get a decision Oct. 14, reached in a closed session before the council opens its doors.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
A new state program is lifting Alaska's worst-in-the-nation aid filing rate
Alaska seniors who worked with a new state advising program filed for federal aid at 60 percent, well above the state's last-in-the-nation rate of 35 percent.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
A parent does not lose custody by placing a disabled child in a facility, Alaska court rules
Alaska Supreme Court ruled a parent cannot escape child support by placing a disabled adult child in assisted care if the parent maintains a custodial role, affirming $640 monthly support in the case.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Delta Junction inventor wins design patent for sports bra with built-in neck guard
A woman in Delta Junction, population 918 at the last census, owns the look of a sports bra with a built-in neck guard for the next 15 years.
by Alaska News1w ago2 min readAI