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Sitka's Assembly takes up how to pay for child care
Sitka's Assembly takes up a possible child care funding source Tuesday. A survey found most parents struggle to find care and employers are feeling it too.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
The Peninsula caribou hunt opens Dec. 1 without a quota set
Alaska residents can take two caribou in the Northern Alaska Peninsula hunt opening Dec. 1, though the quota will not be set until fall surveys finish.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Federal money for elder abuse work, with a deadline next week
Alaska tribes and nonprofits can apply for federal grants of up to $750,000 to help older Alaskans facing abuse. Applications close Sept. 16.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
NOAA will stop briefing Alaska tribes before every council meeting
NOAA Fisheries will stop briefing Alaska tribes before every North Pacific council meeting, citing a substantial drop in staff since 2025.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Razor clam permit still required on Cook Inlet as September digging season runs on
Cook Inlet razor clam diggers need a subsistence permit, not the new household permit, to harvest legally this season, and east side beaches stay closed through 2027.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
NOAA would let one boat take far more western halibut to get anyone fishing it
Alaska's halibut is not getting caught. NOAA wants to let a single boat take much more of the western quota to get somebody out there fishing it.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage canceled five assessment appeal sessions over the summer
Five Anchorage assessment appeal sessions were canceled over the summer while the backlog stretched toward November. A report ordered in February is overdue.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Kodiak names a third person to run the borough when the top two are out
Kodiak Island Borough now has a third person in line to run it. He gets his first turn in December, when everyone above him is at a conference.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
One Democrat, three Republicans, and two months to go
The left consolidated behind Kreiss-Tomkins. The right split three ways. That is the shape of Alaska's governor race with two months to go.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago3 min readAI
ENSTAR wants to raise most gas hookup charges in Southcentral Alaska in 2027
ENSTAR wants to raise most natural gas hookup charges in Southcentral Alaska in 2027, with the basic service-line fee up about $46 and higher meter costs.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Volunteers are replanting a mining-scarred creek, and last year's willows lived
Volunteers replanted a mining-scarred creek near Fairbanks last year and the willows took. They are going back Sept. 26 to plant more for the grayling.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Alaska kids can draw their way into the health department's bookmark contest
Alaska's health department wants kids 3 to 18 to draw what being a "Health Hero" means to them — winning bookmark art gets printed. Entries are due Oct. 9.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Homer Electric reports $2.2 million June operating loss as purchased power costs run over budget
Homer Electric lost $2.2 million in June as purchased power costs ran over budget, pushing year-to-date margins $1 million below target.
by Bill AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min readAI
A proposed rule would cut years of NPR-A oil review down to 60 days
Building an oil site in the NPR-A takes years of review. A proposed rule makes it 60 days for anything within 25 miles of existing infrastructure.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago4 min readAI
Registration opens for Oct. 12-13 Employment First Conference in Anchorage
Alaska's Employment First Conference opens registration for Oct. 12-13 in Anchorage, with scholarship tickets available for those needing reduced rates.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Rural Alaska's internet funding is changing hands as an old federal program ends
The federal program funding phone and internet in remote Alaska is ending, and three co-ops just drew some of its last payments — $14.86 million.
by Melinda Communities.News2w ago2 min readAI
Fairbanks' utility is writing down when it would start turning off your power
Fairbanks' electric co-op is writing rules for when it would start rotating outages. It has run short on reserve power 236 of the last 250 days.
by Melinda Communities.News2w ago2 min readAI
Two bulls close the bow-only moose hunt at Eklutna Lake, with hunters still out
Two bulls came out of the Eklutna Lake country and the bow hunt is over. That is roughly half a ton of meat taken off a herd of about seventy.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Magnitude 6.3 quake off Nikolski sets off dozens of Aleutian aftershocks
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck offshore in the central Aleutians early Thursday, setting off dozens of aftershocks — but no tsunami and no expected damage.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
You can name your own price to see the Tlingit opera in Juneau
The closing performance of Juneau's Tlingit opera is entirely pay-as-you-can at the door, with limited pay-as-you-can seats at four other performances.
by Melinda Communities.News2w ago1 min readAI
Alaska got early frost and a heat advisory in the same week
Alaska's first week of September brought early frost to Anchorage and Yakutat and a heat advisory to Prince of Wales Island, where Friday hits 80 degrees.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
The Tlingit & Haida tribal government opposes opening the Tongass
Tlingit & Haida opposes lifting Tongass road limits. Native corporations once cut more than half the region's timber, then left the business entirely.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago3 min readAI
Tlingit & Haida sought $8.4 million for child care after the landslides and floods, and got $1.1 million
Tlingit & Haida received $1.15 million in federal child care recovery money for six Southeast Alaska communities, about one-seventh of the $8.4 million the tribe requested.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
West Tudor Road down a lane each way through Sunday for asphalt patching
West Tudor Road near Cambridge Way loses a left lane each way through Sunday for asphalt patching — the latest closure on a road with bigger safety problems.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Kenai Council on Aging reviews 2026 goals at Sept. 10 work session
Kenai's Council on Aging Commission recommends the city adopt an emergency food plan to keep the senior center stocked for two weeks of meals if operations are disrupted.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Sitka Assembly to interview municipal administrator applicant Gerrie Cotter on Sept. 10
Sitka's Assembly will interview Gerrie Cotter for municipal administrator on Sept. 10, the sole remaining candidate after a months-long search that started over at least once.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
BBNC Dillingham IT apprenticeship applications close Friday
BBNC is hiring one IT apprentice in Dillingham, applications close Friday, Sept. 4. The one-year role includes CompTIA certifications and requires BBNC or Choggiung shareholder status.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Bristol Bay Native Corporation is taking pitches for its December leadership forum
Bristol Bay Native Corporation is taking pitches through Oct. 2 for its December leadership forum — a corporate-led gathering, and not the region's only one.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Denali's new bridge is finished, and buses still cannot cross it until 2027
Denali's Pretty Rocks bridge is finished, years later than promised. Buses still will not reach Wonder Lake or Kantishna until the 2027 season.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago3 min readAI
Suit seeks Alaska Judicial Council records on judge screening
A conservative legal group sued the Alaska Judicial Council for the scoring sheets it has used to rank judicial candidates since 2020.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago3 min readAI
CDC placed $2 million with an Anchorage firm without competition
CDC awarded $2 million in one-year contracts to Anchorage-based Eagle Health Analytics for emerging infectious disease and Ebola response work, running through September 2027.
by Melinda Communities.News2w ago2 min readAI
Metlakatla wins federal money to protect the hydro plant its island runs on
Metlakatla, Alaska's only Native reserve, gets $166,000 to protect the aging hydro plant its island depends on — a power source strained as its lakes run low.
by Melinda Communities.News2w ago2 min readAI
Nome to host 2030 Inuit Circumpolar Council General Assembly
Nome will host the Inuit Circumpolar Council's 2030 General Assembly, drawing 400 delegates from Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia to vote on Arctic sovereignty and food security.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
GCI is buying the only fiber link connecting Alaska's Arctic coast to the state
GCI, Alaska's biggest telecom, is buying the only wired link between the Arctic coast and the rest of the state for $310 million, a route rivals depend on.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min readAI
Graphite Creek permit decision pushed to September 2027
The Army Corps of Engineers delayed the Graphite Creek mine permit to September 2027 and upgraded the review to a full environmental impact statement.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min readAI
Former mayor Harry Brower Jr. files to run against Patkotak for North Slope Borough mayor
Harry Brower Jr. ran the North Slope Borough for seven years and wants it back. He and the incumbent are both from Utqiagvik, in a borough of eight villages.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min readAI
Anchorage paid to expand the crime center, then put off the rules
Anchorage funded a $598,998 crime center expansion the same night it postponed the public hearing on rules meant to govern that center.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Kaktovik leaders back 1002 Area development and press AIDEA to weigh local knowledge
Kaktovik leaders told AIDEA board members that oil and gas decisions in the Arctic refuge's 1002 Area must include local residents and traditional knowledge, not just outside voices.
by Bill AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min readAI
NWS forecasts up to 1.5 inches of rain in the Chena River basin
Up to 1.5 inches of rain will drench the Chena River basin over the next 48 hours, pushing rivers higher, though NWS Fairbanks says flooding is not expected unless the heaviest rain shifts east.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Alaska put a price on crisis beds the Legislature created in 2022
Alaska proposed Medicaid rates for crisis mental health facilities: $1,833 a day for adults and $2,197 for adolescents, the highest on the state's chart.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI