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Anchorage's next mayor to earn about $183,000, a 26 percent raise
Anchorage's next mayor will make about $183,000, a 26 percent raise — though it won't take effect until whoever wins the April 2027 election.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min readAI
Cordova would get one ferry sailing a month this winter, and none in January
Cordova would get one ferry round trip a month this winter instead of none. January still has no service, and February hangs on how fast a shipyard works.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage board weighs dropping a shared-driveway rule for two Lake Otis lots
Anchorage Platting Board hears a request Wednesday to let two Lake Otis Parkway lots have separate driveways instead of sharing one.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Water forecast 2 to 4 feet above normal high tide in Eastern Norton Sound
Water along Eastern Norton Sound should run 2 to 4 feet above normal high tide from late Thursday into Saturday, with beach erosion likely.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Forecasters flag Kwigillingok as water rises along the Kuskokwim Delta coast
Water along the Kuskokwim Delta coast is forecast 1 to 2 feet above normal high tide, with forecasters flagging Kwigillingok as most exposed to this front.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Southeast Alaska's king crab fishery will open, barely clearing the bar
Southeast Alaska's commercial red king crab season opens Nov. 1 with a 213,076-pound quota, the fourth opening since 2006 and the second in a row after years of closures.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Troopers search by air and ground for missing hunter near Halibut Cove
Alaska State Troopers are searching by air and ground near Halibut Cove for a solo hunter who stopped communicating with his wife Monday evening and has not been found.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Anchorage trails plan keeps Muldoon trail but drops JBER from its name
Anchorage kept the Muldoon trail in its revised plan but dropped JBER from the name after the military base cited security concerns during public comment.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage trails plan adds inland fallback route for stalled Kincaid-to-Potter Marsh trail
Anchorage planners added an inland route option to a stalled coastal trail between Kincaid Park and Potter Marsh, blocked since the 1990s by private land and wildlife refuge concerns.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
A $293 million plan would rebuild and narrow Anchorage's downtown couplet
A $293 million rebuild of Fifth and Sixth avenues would narrow the couplet that funnels traffic through downtown Anchorage. No one commented at the meeting.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Red Dog is one approval away from a new corporate owner
Teck Resources, owner of the Red Dog zinc mine near Kivalina, awaits one final regulatory approval before its merger with Anglo American closes, likely between September 2026 and March 2027.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Bethel council to take up a holiday rescheduling rule, in a code section that does not set meeting dates
Bethel's city council could reschedule meetings that fall on holidays under an ordinance introduced Tuesday, Sept. 8.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Anchorage's wetlands plan describes a permit the city cannot issue
Anchorage's wetlands plan still assumes the city issues its own fill permits. It has not since 2021, and a patch goes to the Assembly Tuesday.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Unit 22C bull moose season closes 12 days early, after two days
Bull moose season in Unit 22C on the Seward Peninsula closes Sept. 2, twelve days early, after hunters are expected to fill the 30-bull quota in just two days.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
GVEA's fuel charge drops 12.6%, reversing about a third of June's increase
GVEA's fuel charge dropped 12.6 percent Tuesday, cutting about $15 from monthly bills for Interior members, though the rate remains far above pre-summer levels after diesel prices spiked.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
None of Ketchikan's $1.65 million in landslide aid has been paid out
FEMA committed $1.65 million for Ketchikan's 2024 landslides. A year later none of it has been paid out, and the window to spend it closes Sept. 30.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Alaska schools warned on parental consent for surveys and student records
Alaska schools could risk federal funding if they survey students on sensitive topics without written parental consent, or withhold records parents can see.
by Melinda Communities.News2w ago1 min readAI
Wasilla man arrested at Anchorage courthouse on sexual abuse warrant
A 59-year-old Wasilla man was arrested Sept. 1 on an outstanding warrant and faces multiple counts of second- and third-degree sexual abuse of a minor.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Alaska's only blood bank is critically short of O and AB blood; six centers are taking donors
Blood Bank of Alaska needs O and AB blood types urgently, with only 2 percent of Alaskans donating annually despite serving 21 hospitals statewide.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Trust land near Control Lake would become a store, laundromat and fuel stop. Comments close Oct. 9.
Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office approved a negotiated sale of Control Lake land on Prince of Wales Island, skipping competitive bidding.
by Alaska News2w ago2 min readAI
Alaska schools warned on parental consent for surveys and student records
Alaska schools could risk federal funding if they survey students on sensitive topics without written parental consent, or withhold records parents can see.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Alaska says school improvement grant reviews are delayed by staffing gaps
Federal money for Alaska's lowest-performing schools is stuck. The state office that reviews the applications is short-staffed, and deadlines have not moved.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Anchorage will weigh housing density, not just price, when it sells land
The Anchorage Assembly voted 11-0 to tell the city to weigh housing density and affordability, not just price, when it disposes of municipal land.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Strong chum run opens Tanana coho fishing and more gear this weekend
Fairbanks-area personal use fishers can now use gillnets and keep coho salmon starting Friday, Sept. 4, after the state projects a strong fall chum run above target escapement.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Southeast seiners get one 15-hour opening, in Sitka Sound
Southeast seiners get one 15-hour opening in Sitka Sound this week and nothing else. The fleet has thinned to 75 boats from 121 a week earlier.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Chugachmiut's Sugt'stun language game gets new gameplay footage
Nunaka means my village in Sugt'stun. It is also a free game teaching the language to children in a region where fluent speakers are dwindling.
by Alaska News2w ago2 min readAI
More than 200 turn out in Fairbanks to question Alaska's governor candidates
More than 200 people turned out in Fairbanks to grill Alaska's governor candidates at a nonpartisan Native Vote mixer ahead of the primary vote.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min readAI
A judge let Alaska start 2.8 miles of the King Cove road with the land swap vacated
A judge will not stop Alaska from starting 2.8 miles of the King Cove road, even though the land swap for the full route has been thrown out.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago3 min readAI
Unalaska raises the audit threshold for its nonprofit grant recipients
Unalaska has raised the audit threshold for nonprofit grantees to $40,000, after one grantee said audit costs ate roughly 13 percent of its city award.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min readAI
Mat-Su explores building the troopers a new home and leasing it back
Mat-Su is exploring building troopers a $13 million facility and leasing it back. Troopers now work from six buildings never designed for police work.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Kodiak Assembly takes up its vacancy rewrite Thursday, with the public hearing Sept. 17
Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will introduce Thursday an ordinance that would start the clock for filling vacant seats the day a resignation is accepted and allow electronic applications.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Districts learned about $115 million after school had already started
Alaska school districts learned they were getting $115 million the day after school started, because the money depended on oil revenue counted Aug. 31.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage school district proposes splitting $32 million in one-time state money
Anchorage schools will split $32 million in one-time state money, spending more than half this year and saving the rest to shrink a $40 million deficit expected next summer.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage band teacher tells school board he now teaches 330 students a day
Anchorage band teacher Dan Whitfield teaches 330 students daily after the district cut a part-time director position, leaving classes of 45 to 83 students with no jazz band or extra help.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
The Forest Service approved logging it says may restrict subsistence hunting
The Forest Service approved Revillagigedo logging its own analysis says may significantly restrict subsistence deer hunting. A tribe and two groups sued.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min readAI
Unalaska is paying $800,000 to keep its emergency room open around the clock
Unalaska City Council adopted new grant guidelines on Aug. 25, but the exact changes remain unclear because city records do not include the full resolution text.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min readAI
Juneau Assembly votes 6-3 to sell old City Hall to Sealaska Heritage Institute
Juneau took Sealaska Heritage Institute's $1.5 million for its old City Hall instead of seeking bids at $2.5 million. Nobody has appraised the building.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Fifteen Anchorage Assembly members will have their spending accounts examined in a 9-2 vote
Fifteen Anchorage Assembly members will have their $24,000 spending accounts examined. Nobody will be required to answer the findings in writing.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
North Slope Borough Assembly raises lot density to four homes in zoning code rewrite
North Slope Borough Assembly voted 9-0 to allow four homes per lot instead of two, aiming to address a shortage of 637 housing units across the region.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Two candidates file on the last day for Kenai Peninsula Borough offices
Two more candidates filed on the last day for Kenai Peninsula Borough offices, including one seeking an Assembly seat that has been sitting vacant.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI