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Anchorage company wins patent for adjustable pipeline support
Two Anchorage inventors have patented a pipeline support you can raise or lower with a hand crank — a simple fix for supports that shift as permafrost thaws.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Most of Alaska labor backs Peltola. Sullivan took some anyway.
Most of Alaska's organized labor backs Peltola, but Sullivan has drawn several major unions, including some that cross the usual lines.
by Bill AlaskaNews1w ago3 min readAI
State proposes 55-year Adak Airport lease, competing bids due Oct. 8
Alaska wants to lease airport land at Adak, a remote island now drawing military and space interest, for 55 years — one of the longest terms it allows.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage could shrink its minimum lot size by two-thirds under a pending ordinance
Anchorage could cut its minimum single-family lot to a third of current size and let buildings cover 70 percent of it. The hearing is Sept. 15.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Bering Sea halibut boats would get a catch cap double the rest of Alaska
Bering Sea halibut boats have gone five years with no catch limit. Regulators want to fix that, at roughly double what the rest of Alaska lives with.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Gusts to 40 mph are coming across the Interior Tuesday into Wednesday
The Interior is in for gusts of 30 to 40 mph from Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday night, and as high as 50 mph up in the hills and the passes.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
State tax office flagged seller of Anchorage cannabis concentrate license as non-compliant
Alaska flagged a marijuana license seller as non-compliant on taxes. Her sworn statement listed no debts. What the board did is not on the record.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Wells Fargo keeps shrinking in Alaska, where it's the only bank in six towns
Wells Fargo keeps closing Alaska branches — nine since 2019, the latest in Anchorage. In six Alaska towns it's the only bank, and could leave them with none.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago2 min readAI
Seward state park advisory board takes public comment at Sept. 16 meeting
Seward State Park Citizen Advisory Board meets Sept. 16 to hear public comment on park management, in person or via Teams.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Moose hunter flown off upper Chistochina River after medical emergency
A moose hunter with a medical emergency on the remote upper Chistochina River was flown out by helicopter Monday and handed to waiting medics, troopers said.
by Alaska News1w ago1 min readAI
Gunfire reports in Nondalton ended in an arrest on eight charges
Reports of gunfire in Nondalton brought troopers from King Salmon and ended with a 22-year-old man arrested on eight charges, including burglary and assault.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago1 min readAI
Alaska warns personal care agencies they can lose Harmony access for viewing waiver records
Alaska's Division of Senior and Disabilities Services warned personal care agencies they risk losing Harmony database access if they open waiver service records.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Missing an unemployment filing could cost Alaska employers five times as much
Alaska employers behind on unemployment insurance paperwork could pay $2,927 per worker next year instead of $542. Third quarter reports are due Oct. 31.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Bering Sea pollock companies are hiring at an Anchorage event
Companies that catch and process Bering Sea pollock are hiring at an Anchorage job event Oct. 29, for jobs that pay a share of the catch.
by Bill AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Unalaska wants $5 million to pave the road serving America's busiest fishing port
The country's largest fishing port by poundage is served by a gravel road. Paving it is now Unalaska's top request of Congress, at $5 million.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago2 min readAI
Homer's library is asking the state to cover part of its internet bill
Homer's library wants $5,130 from the state toward its internet bill. That is less than last year, for the pleasant reason that the bill went down.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago1 min readAI
Unalaska makes its failing airport terminal a top funding priority
Unalaska made a failing airport terminal its top request for state money next year, moving it from last on the list to first.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago1 min readAI
Troopers investigating death of a Kachemak Selo man found nothing suspicious
A family in Kachemak Selo found Mihey Reutov, 35, dead on Monday, and Alaska State Troopers said an early investigation found nothing suspicious.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
A Tyonek man died Saturday after neighbors heard gunshots
A Tyonek man died Saturday after neighbors heard gunshots and found him wounded. The state medical examiner has not determined a cause of death.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago1 min readAI
Mat-Su moves to lease Port MacKenzie land to an antimony company
Mat-Su is moving to lease 42.78 acres of port land to an antimony company. The commission that recommended it published no minutes or vote count.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago3 min readAI
Haines donation drive collects wood stoves and building supplies for Tok fire rebuilding
Haines residents are collecting wood stoves, refrigerators, and building supplies for Tok-area households rebuilding after the Mukluk Fire destroyed 50 homes in August.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage wants city land sales weighed by housing, not price alone
Anchorage land sales now come with a written case for the housing they produce. The guidance is nonbinding, but it changes what the Assembly weighs.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago1 min readAI
A state windfall would restore shelter capacity Anchorage cut this year
Anchorage cut $1 million in shelter surge capacity when alcohol-tax revenue fell short. An unexpected state payment would let the city restore it.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago1 min readAI
Two EMS providers assaulted on Parks Highway in Nenana, troopers say
A man assaulted two EMS providers on the Parks Highway in Nenana early Monday and was arrested on two counts of assault in the fourth degree.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Wasilla's legislative ask leads with $10 million aviation training center at city airport
Wasilla asks state and federal lawmakers for $10 million to build an aviation training center at the city airport, leading a capital priorities list the Planning Commission reviews Tuesday.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Storm to raise water up to 5 feet above the tide line, Golovin to Wainwright
Coastal flooding could push water 2 to 5 feet above the high tide line along much of western and northern Alaska this week, across several tide cycles.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
A plan to let Alaskans invest in the gas pipeline has stalled
A plan to let ordinary Alaskans buy a stake in the state's gas pipeline has stalled for want of $2.5 million, even as the pipeline itself keeps moving ahead.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago3 min readAI
Mat-Su weighs a council district for a group staff say does not meet the code
Mat-Su staff back giving landowners along Greater Oilwell Road a recognized borough voice, though the group asking for it doesn't meet the council definition.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Homer-based Republican group drops the Homer city election from its reporting
The Homer-based Republican district unit just dropped Homer's city election from the races it reports on. It kept the borough race the same day.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
A Soldotna council member's consulting firm earned up to $1 million last year
Soldotna pays Daniel Nelson up to $5,000 a year to sit on its city council. Governments paid his consulting firm up to $1 million last year.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Wrangell elder's headpiece cleared for return from Wisconsin museum
A Tlingit headpiece worn by Tom Ukas can return to Alaska from a Wisconsin museum starting Sept. 23 after federal review confirmed it holds human remains and belonged to the Wrangell elder.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago3 min readAI
Tribal consortium takes ownership of Alaska Native Medical Center
The Indian Health Service transferred ownership of the Alaska Native Medical Center to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium on Aug. 24, 2026, opening access to uncapped federal lease payments while the legal authority for the conveyance remains undocumented.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago2 min readAI
Alaska's Permanent Fund had a banner year, but the money is spoken for
Alaska's Permanent Fund had a banner year, but the state has already spent it — on the budget, dividend and inflation protection, reviving a fiscal fight.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago4 min readAI
A write-in candidate has entered Sitka's Assembly race for two seats
Sitka's Assembly race just went from three candidates to four. Mary Ann Hall has until Oct. 1 to make write-in votes for her actually count.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Fairbanks gets new flood maps in January, and most homes in the zone are uninsured
Fairbanks gets new federal flood maps in January, its first update since 1992. Three of every four homes already in the flood zone carry no insurance.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Fish and Wildlife is putting GPS collars on moose in the upper Tanana
Tetlin refuge would like a word with its moose. It is spending $94,542 on GPS collars to learn where they go and how well they are eating.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage clears a substation plat on quake-prone Port ground
Anchorage approved a plat for a new Chugach Electric substation at the Port on ground its own maps rate as highly likely to fail in an earthquake.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Southeast king crab reopens for a second year after a long drought
Southeast Alaska's king crab fishery reopens Nov. 1 for a second year after seven closed seasons — a modest comeback, still barely over the legal line.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
The pipeline right-of-way comment window got another week
The public has until Sept. 17 to comment on whether the trans-Alaska pipeline keeps its federal right-of-way for 30 more years, after the Bureau of Land Management extended the deadline by a week.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago1 min readAI
Hilcorp wants a North Slope gravel mine with no wetland payback
Hilcorp wants to mine gravel across about 95 acres of North Slope tundra near Deadhorse with no wetland compensation, arguing Arctic wetlands can't be replaced.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI