Alaska

Forecasters expect up to a foot of snow near Red Dog Mine through Thursday afternoon

Winter storm warning near Red Dog Mine runs through 4 pm Thursday, with 6 to 12 inches expected and up to 18 inches in higher terrain.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

Fish board member found in ethics violation makes the order public before Area M vote

The state found fish board member Curt Chamberlain's ethics disclosure incomplete and voided five Area M rules. He released the order Wednesday and disputes it.

by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago3 min read

Fish board adds eight Upper Cook Inlet king stocks and Little Susitna coho to concern list

The fish board added eight Upper Cook Inlet king runs and Little Susitna coho to its worry list, bringing the inlet's troubled king stocks to 13.

by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

Cordova to close part of Fourth Street Thursday and interrupt water service to fix a leak

Cordova closes Fourth Street between Browning and Council Thursday at 9am to fix a water leak. Use Davis Avenue as a detour, no end date given for repairs or water service interruptions.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

Legislature raises Juneau lodging stipend for session staff to $50 a day

Legislative staff who move to Juneau for session will get $50 a day for lodging instead of $37.50. Sixteen donated apartments should be ready, too.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

FAA weighs releasing 40 acres of Fairbanks airport land for sale to expand a gravel mine

Fairbanks International Airport wants to sell 40 acres it says it no longer needs for aviation, to make room for a private gravel company. Comments due Nov. 28.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

NOAA approves marine mammal permit for Petro Marine's Juneau fuel dock rebuild

Petro Marine says maintenance can't keep up with its 1971 Juneau fuel dock. NOAA just approved the noisy pile driving to replace it, seals and all.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago3 min read

Federal board opens a late-fall subsistence moose hunt on the eastern Kenai Peninsula

The Federal Subsistence Board opened a late-fall Unit 7 moose hunt by email poll, since the rule putting it into effect didn't arrive until a week in.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readFrom Oct 15

Alaskans have until Thursday to comment on the state's $7.74 billion transportation plan

Got opinions about Alaska's roads, ferries or trails? Thursday at 5 pm is the last chance to comment on the state's $7.74 billion four-year transportation plan.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

Alaska high schoolers have until Nov. 16 to sign up for Poetry Out Loud

Alaska teens who can memorize a poem and really sell it have until Nov. 16 to sign up for Poetry Out Loud. The state winner heads to the national finals in D.C.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

GOPAC-backed group spends $178,000 against three Alaska House candidates

An Anchorage group funded mostly by national Republican money spent $178,000 in three weeks against House candidates Ky Holland, Cliff Groh and Brent Johnson.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

AFN delegates urge Alaskans to vote no on Ballot Measure 2, the ranked-choice repeal

AFN isn't endorsing candidates this year, but its delegates took a side on the ballot, urging Alaskans to vote no on the ranked-choice repeal.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readFrom Oct 24

Follows: AFN weighs late resolutions on permitting bill's historic review title and census plan

DOJ drops opposition to Peltola campaign joining suit, says it will seek discovery

A day after trying to keep Peltola's campaign out of its Alaska Senate suit, DOJ reversed itself, citing a Times report. Now it wants discovery.

by Alaska News2w ago2 min read

Follows: Peltola and voter groups move to fight DOJ's suit to block Alaska certification

Legislative Council delays extra $8,580 for managing lawmakers' Juneau apartments

Rep. Louise Stutes, who has owned apartments herself, balked at $8,580 more for managing lawmakers' Juneau units, so the Legislative Council punted to December.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

Alaska Energy Authority board votes Nov. 5 on a new look at the shelved Susitna dam

Alaska's energy authority votes Nov. 5 on a new look at the shelved Susitna dam, saying "time is of the essence" to catch tax credits worth up to half its cost.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago3 min read

Assembly resumes hearing Nov. 4 on nine-seat Chugach park access board

The Anchorage Assembly ran out of time Oct. 20 on its Chugach park access board. The hearing on the latest, nine-seat version now resumes Nov. 4.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

Follows: Anchorage Assembly takes up rewritten Chugach access board plan Tuesday

Alaska's workers' comp tiebreaker doctors are almost all out of state, new list shows

Alaska's list of doctors who settle medical disputes in workers' comp cases has 52 names. One lists an Alaska address. Forty are based in California.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

Fairbanks board approves 8 industrial lots on land split without approval in 1974

This Fairbanks industrial land was split without borough approval starting in 1974. A 2023 rule for innocent owners let a board approve eight lots on it.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readFrom Oct 21

State proposes giving North Slope Borough 320 acres in the Brooks Range foothills

The state proposed giving the North Slope Borough 320 acres in the Brooks foothills, a week after proposing it get 583 acres in the Kuparuk oil field.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago3 min read

Alaska's first school construction rankings under new scoring rules come out Nov. 5

Alaska's school construction rankings come out Nov. 5, the first under scoring rules rewritten to help rural districts. Districts can appeal theirs by Dec. 1.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

Seward under flood watch as atmospheric river brings 3 to 4 inches of rain

Weather service issued a flood watch for Seward, Thursday evening to 4 pm Friday, with 3 to 4 inches of rain likely. It is at least the third such watch since July.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

Coast Guard searches for Angoon boater after empty skiff found near Killisnoo Island

Coast Guard and Wrangell rescue teams are searching near Angoon for Roger Williams Jr., 35, after his empty skiff was found near Killisnoo Island.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

Chignik tribal coalition sues the state months after its Area M salmon rule was voided

The Chignik Intertribal Coalition sued the state in Dillingham. The record doesn't say why, but the state voided the coalition's Area M salmon rule in May.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

Volunteers rescue hiker with suspected broken ankle on Anchorage's O'Malley Trail

Alaska Mountain Rescue Group volunteers carried a 33-year-old hiker with a suspected broken ankle off Anchorage's O'Malley Trail early Wednesday. He was taken to a hospital.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

Times reports Democrats worked to recruit Alaska's second Dan Sullivan and other spoilers

The Times says the second Dan Sullivan and Gerald Heikes were recruited in an effort involving Peltola aides and national Democrats. Both groups deny it.

by Alaska News2w ago4 min read

Five rural Alaska early voting sites are closed less than a week before Election Day

Early voting sites in five rural Alaska communities are listed as temporarily closed days before the election. The state hasn't said why or when they'll reopen.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

Anchorage Assembly may hold the Crazy Horse's liquor renewal until fire officials sign off

The Assembly may hold up the Crazy Horse's liquor renewal until the fire department signs off on the Gambell Street club, in a building dating to 1955.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

Rabbit Creek council asks Assembly to limit AI use of police plate-reader data

Rabbit Creek's community council voted 17-0 to ask the Assembly to rein in how AI handles police plate-reader data in the city's surveillance rules.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

Search under way in Fairbanks and Huslia areas for missing Fairbanks man

Searchers are looking around Fairbanks and Huslia for Sterling Dewilde, 45, who was last heard from Sept. 11. Police ask anyone with information to call.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

Two men wounded in early Wednesday shooting on Anchorage's Pine Street; no arrests

Two men were shot early Wednesday in the 800 block of Pine Street in Anchorage. Both survived with non-life-threatening injuries, and no arrests have been made.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

Fish and Game closes two Southeast sea cucumber areas and raises the weekly limit

Divers took about all the sea cucumbers allowed off Gravina Island and in Zimovia Strait, so Fish and Game closed both and raised the weekly limit elsewhere.

by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

Follows: Gravina Island sea cucumber divers get two hours as the area's cap nearly runs out

Southeast Alaska's commercial Dungeness crab season ends Saturday, a month early

Southeast's Dungeness crab fleet stops fishing Saturday after a fall season cut in half, capping a year with the weakest summer harvest estimate in 25 years.

by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

Kivalina's power is mostly back as the school shelter count drops to three

Power is mostly back in Kivalina, and three people stayed at the school shelter Tuesday night, down from about 175. It stays open through the weekend.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

Follows: Wind cuts power to much of Kivalina, and restoring it may take up to a week

Willow-area owners ask Mat-Su to let them split 40 acres without building a mile-plus road

Three Willow-area landowners want to split 40 acres into two recreational lots without building 6,800 feet of road. The Mat-Su Platting Board decides Nov. 5.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

Contango begins drilling the east end of the historic Lucky Shot gold mine

Contango started underground drilling Oct. 22 on the east end of the old Lucky Shot gold mine's veins, a stretch it says no modern program has tested.

by Alaska News2w ago2 min read

Specialized emergency foster homes will get $40 more a day per child starting Nov. 26

Foster homes that specialize in emergency placements get $40 more a day per child starting Nov. 26. Other foster families' short-notice rate stays the same.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

State proposes 50-year Deadhorse Airport lease for an oilfield camp and yard

The state wants to rent nearly 11 acres of Deadhorse Airport for 50 years for a camp and oilfield equipment yard. Rent: about $133,000 a year.

by Alaska News2w ago1 min read

Coast Guard orders $5.8 million chromium cleanup at Base Kodiak's Hangar 1

The Coast Guard hired a Homer contractor for $5.8 million to clean up hexavalent chromium, a cancer-causing form of the metal, in a Base Kodiak hangar.

by Melinda Communities.News2w ago1 min read

FAA hires contractor to put a $1.6 million roof on McGrath's navigation beacon

The FAA is paying $1.6 million for a new roof on McGrath's radio navigation beacon, even as it drops an airway that ran from it and moves Alaska routes to GPS.

by Melinda Communities.News2w ago1 min read

Federal judge hears bid Thursday to throw out Arctic refuge oil leasing and leases

A judge hears arguments Thursday on scrapping ANWR's oil leasing program. Gwich'in and conservation groups sue; Kaktovik, the state and industry defend it.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read