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Tuesday, Jul 14
Alaska won up to $160M to hunt critical minerals with AI and microbes
UAF will lead a new NSF innovation engine — up to $160M over 10 years — using AI and microbes to find Alaska's critical minerals. SCIENCE!!
by Maggie AlaskaNews4mo ago3 min read
Alaska's diesel-to-renewables fund reopens, but the money reaches few
Alaska's main fund for getting rural communities off diesel just reopened — with room for maybe nine of the many that'll apply.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
Palmer copper project advances as the Chilkat Valley pushes back
The Palmer copper-zinc project near Haines pits a state-backed critical-minerals push against residents and Klukwan fighting to protect the Chilkat's salmon.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 4mo ago2 min read
Freezing rain possible at Kaktovik and Point Thomson through Wednesday night
Freezing rain and lower-30s temperatures threaten Kaktovik and Point Thomson through Wednesday night, a mid-July hazard the National Weather Service warned Tuesday.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Wasilla's mayor is termed out, and the first candidate to replace her just filed
Wasilla's mayor is term-limited, so the seat's open this fall — and Stu Graham is first to signal a run, filing before the July 20–31 window even opens.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
A Petersburg cell tower proposal died without a second
A Petersburg cell tower plan died the quietest death possible Tuesday — nobody would even second the motion to approve it.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
Ship Creek reopens to fishing Tuesday, but ADF&G bans king retention for rest of season
Ship Creek is back open after 11 days — just don't expect to keep a king, because retention's banned for the rest of the season.
by Bill AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Juneau braces for another Suicide Basin glacial flood
Another glacial flood from Suicide Basin is headed for Juneau — nearly 1,900 homes are in the advisory area, and officials say the barriers holding it back are "essentially sandbags."
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
More from Alaska
Bristol Bay tightens the rules on its king salmon again
Bristol Bay's kings keep sliding, so the rules keep tightening: fewer big fish on the Naknek, no bait on the Nushagak, and log every keeper in ink.
by Bill AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Yentna and Skwentna rivers headed for high water
Rain's about to shove the Yentna and Skwentna to bankfull — so if your camp is on a gravel bar this week, it's about to become a sandbar with a view of the bottom.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
A fall at a remote Alaska lighthouse turned an injury into a helicopter rescue
A tourist badly hurt her hip at the historic Sentinel Island lighthouse near Juneau and got a helicopter flight out. Kinda a two birds with one stone thing
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Four Kodiak residents vie for an open Assembly seat
Four Kodiak residents are up for an open Assembly seat, and the Assembly picks one Thursday night — winner sworn in on the spot, serving until October's election.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Anchorage moves to allow homes on commercial land
Anchorage wants to let you build a house on commercial strip-mall land — the latest zoning tweak in its long slog toward 10,000 new homes.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Manokotak man arrested on murder charge after fishing-site death
A Manokotak man died after being struck in the head with an anchor during a fishing-site altercation on June 26. Another Manokotak man faces murder and manslaughter charges.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 4mo ago1 min read
Juneau's new casino, and the land the city can't reach
Juneau's first casino opened on sovereign Native allotment land, through a legal door ANCSA was built to close and the courts haven't settled. The city can't even regulate it.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
The $100 million question inside Alaska's gas-line bill
Should Hilcorp pay the oil tax ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips already do? It's worth $100M-plus a year — but critics warn taxing Cook Inlet's gas supplier could backfire.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
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About Alaska
Alaska is a United States state spanning Arctic, subarctic and coastal regions. Its communities range from Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau to Kodiak, the North Slope and villages such as McGrath and Adak that sit off the road system.
The Legislature, the governor's office and state agencies set policy on oil and gas, fisheries, transportation and public lands, and state boards such as the Board of Fisheries and the AIDEA board decide on catch rules, loans and investments. Cities and boroughs keep their own budgets, taxes, liquor licenses and planning decisions.
Questions that recur across the state include local budgets and tax rates, fishery catch limits, air service and ports for remote communities, and decisions on state land. Federal agencies and courts also shape life in Alaska, from air service contracts for rural towns to the certification of statewide election results.
More from Alaska
The Fortymile caribou herd is shrinking, and this year's hunt reflects it
The Fortymile caribou herd is down a bit, so this year's hunt is tighter — 550 bulls, one per hunter, no cows, and zones that can slam shut mid-season.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
NRA backs Sullivan after endorsing Peltola two years ago
Sullivan's touting his A+ NRA endorsement as proof Peltola's soft on guns — awkward, since the NRA endorsed Peltola herself two years ago.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Alaska child vaccination rate at 55%, well below national average
New state data shows 55% of Alaska toddlers have finished the recommended vaccine series and kindergarten measles coverage is 77% — below national averages and the herd-immunity threshold.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Ketchikan anglers catch a rare break on king limits
Good king news for once: Ketchikan visitors can now keep two a day, and hatchery-fed Herring Bay is basically a free-for-all — while the wild-stock rules stay locked down.
by Bill AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
Anchorage funded a program to fix 20 homes. It fixed one — and no one was penalized.
An Anchorage audit found a program paid to fix 20 homes fixed one, a shelter thousands of bed-nights short — and in three years the city never once made anyone pay for it.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
TCC and Interior Native Vote host candidate mixers in Fairbanks before August primary
Big ballot, tiny primary turnout, and free food — Tanana Chiefs Conference are putting Interior voters face-to-face with the candidates. Just register by Sunday first.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Frier vs. Chase: a rematch for Alaska's northernmost House seat
Alaska's biggest, coldest House district is a 2024 rematch: Rep. Robyn Frier vs. Kotzebue Mayor Saima Chase, both running hard on public safety.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Anchorage keeps deferring a public safety commission it can't agree on
Anchorage's proposed public safety commission got punted again — stuck on whether it should actually have power, what it would cost, and what problem it's even solving.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
A glacier-dammed lake is emptying into the Salmon River near Hyder
A glacier-dammed lake above Hyder is draining out the bottom of the Salmon Glacier, swelling the Salmon River and threatening the Premier road — like it has almost every summer since 1961.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
A small gold permit, on a river fighting for its future
A routine gold-mining permit on a Susitna tributary is a small piece of a much bigger fight over a salmon river conservationists just named one of America's most endangered.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
Northern Alaska's staffed wildfires wind down, but crews brace for more
Rain did what the crews couldn't and mopped up northern Alaska's last staffed fires — though with 2,000 lightning strikes a day, nobody's putting the shovels away.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
A gravel permit for the pipeline, and a question about what Alyeska pays
A routine permit lets Alyeska pull gravel from the Sag floodplain for pipeline upkeep — but not what the private pipeline giant pays the public for it. A senator's been asking.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
Alaska runs on federal money, and a proposed rule change has people worried
Alaska leans on federal money for basics — water plants, shelters, emergency response — and nonprofits, cities, and Tribes warn a proposed federal rule change could make that funding less reliable.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Juneau may spend its last prime waterfront lot on a bathroom
Juneau's last prime chunk of downtown waterfront might become… a public restroom and a covered spot to stand. At least one Assembly member is asking if that's really the best use.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Kuskokwim subsistence fishing reopens as salmon run strong
Subsistence fishing is back open on the lower Kuskokwim as salmon run strong — and the state is managing the mainstem again after losing a long fight over who controls the river.
by Bill AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
Bristol Bay is hauling in millions of sockeye — and it's still a down year
Bristol Bay has already landed 26+ million sockeye — a staggering haul that's somehow still a down year, running about a quarter below its 10-year average.
by Bill AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
A Brooks Range hunting guide wants a permanent camp in the wild
A guide who flies hunters into the Brooks Range by Super Cub wants to trade his move-every-two-weeks tent camp for a permanent cabin in some of Alaska's most remote country.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Commercial fishing opens in Kuskokwim Bay as subsistence fishing closes
Commercial fishing opened in Kuskokwim Bay's Districts 4 and 5 through July 17, with subsistence fishing closed until the 18th — a real trade-off in a region built on salmon.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
A tip about a truck running over seagulls ended in a DUI arrest at Kasilof
A tip about a truck running over seagulls at Kasilof Beach led troopers to a Fairbanks man now facing DUI, weapons, and a federal migratory-bird charge.
by Alaska News4mo ago1 min read
Kenai has 120 seniors waiting for housing that doesn't exist yet
120 people are waitlisted for senior housing in Kenai that hasn't been built — and the city's plan doesn't even study the problem until around 2030.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
How bubbles can throw off the sound Alaska uses to count its fish
Alaska counts much of its fish by pinging the ocean with sound, but bubbles under a ship's hull can blur the read. A new $400K grant will measure how badly they're fooling the gear.
by Melinda Communities.News4mo ago1 min read
Alaska's first big AI data center clears a hurdle on the North Slope
A company wants to burn North Slope gas on-site to run AI computing near Deadhorse — turning 50 years of stranded gas into power, if the financing, customers and gas contract ever show up.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read
A faster way to settle Native trust estates, starting in Alaska
Settling a Native allotment after a death has meant slow federal paperwork — now Interior has an online system to speed it up, and Alaska families are first to use it.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago1 min read
Interior Alaska breaks ground on the nation's northernmost veterans cemetery
Interior Alaska is getting its first state-owned veterans cemetery — the northernmost in the U.S. — built by UIC-owned HC Contractors near Fairbanks.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min readFrom 
