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A decade after Alaskans legalized weed, the industry is thinning out
A decade after Alaska legalized weed, the industry is thinning out, with growers folding under a decade-old tax. License renewals are due at month's end.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
An advocacy group argues that cutting the dividend is a hidden tax. Whether it is depends on a question Alaska has never settled.
An advocacy group calls dividend cuts a hidden tax, but whether that's the right word turns on an unsettled question of what the PFD fundamentally is.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min readAI
Bethel weighs letting its manager file lawsuits without council approval
Bethel is weighing whether to let its manager file routine lawsuits without a council vote, moving some legal authority from the elected body to city staff.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Bethel would move sand shed money to road salt and water plant engineering
Bethel wants to move about $55,000 from fixing its sand shed to buying road salt and helping engineer a water plant. The council takes public comment Tuesday.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Troopers recover stolen Durango sold for parts at Fairbanks home
A stolen Dodge Durango turned up in pieces at a Fairbanks home after its parts were listed for sale online, and troopers matched the VIN and made an arrest.
by Alaska News1mo ago1 min readAI
Alaska EMS clinicians will need fingerprint background checks as the state joins a national compact
Alaska's paramedics and EMTs will need fingerprint background checks Sept. 20 as the state joins a national EMS compact, with a lower fee for rural volunteers.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Homer Electric members will be able to buy into shared solar starting in February
Homer Electric members can buy into shared solar or wind starting around mid-February. Subscribers will pay a monthly fee nobody has put a number on yet.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Alaska's main power grid is getting its first mandatory cybersecurity rules, but not for years
Alaska's main power grid is finally getting mandatory cybersecurity rules, but none takes effect until 2027 at the earliest, phasing in slowly through 2029.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
NOAA is still testing groundwater in the Pribilofs, decades after it left
NOAA is paying $186,644 to keep sampling groundwater in the Pribilofs, cleanup left over from 116 years of federal control of the fur seal harvest.
by Alaska News1mo ago2 min readAI
King salmon fishing is over for the year in the Upper Copper River drainages
King salmon fishing in the Upper Copper River drainages is done for 2026. Permit holders must report online by Aug. 31 even if they never fished.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Salmon dying off in Prince of Wales drainages amid low, warm water
Salmon are dying off in several Prince of Wales Island streams, where low, warm water from drought has killed fish and stranded survivors in shrinking pools.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Koniag shareholders get nine chances to question their corporation's leadership in person
Koniag shareholders get nine chances this month to question their leadership in person, from the Kodiak Archipelago to Seattle, Portland and Soldotna.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Record cold pushed Anchorage's gas demand to an all-time high, just as the supply is running out
Record cold drove Anchorage-area gas demand to a record as Cook Inlet supply shrinks, and the utility projects a 3 billion cubic foot shortfall next winter.
by Bill AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min readAI
Girdwood petitioner seeks stream setback variance for house and bridge
A Girdwood developer seeks permission to build a house and bridge closer to a salmon stream than borough code allows. The Zoning Board hears the case Oct. 8.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
A declining Fortymile caribou herd, short hunts, and a dispute over timing
A declining Fortymile caribou herd has forced short, tightly capped hunts. Tribes say the state's timing this year cut into the federal subsistence priority.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Peltola's first general election ad, out a day after the primary, runs against her own party.
The day after advancing from the primary, Peltola's campaign announced a TV ad about breaking with Democrats, citing her low party loyalty as a credential.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Alaska joins a national EMS system, but local ambulance service won't change
Alaska is joining a national EMS agreement that lets medics work across state lines. For most people, the reassuring part: your local ambulance won't change.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Wasilla staff float options to broaden the city sales tax, no vote yet
Wasilla staff are floating ways to widen the city sales tax, from renters to nonprofits to charitable gaming. It's a report Monday, not a vote.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Three years and three permits later, Ketchikan's airport ferry still has no backup berths
Ketchikan's airport ferry docks at one set of berths with no backup. Three years and three federal permits later, the state hasn't driven a pile.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Golden Valley Electric has rules for community solar and no community solar
Golden Valley Electric now has approved rules for community solar and no community solar. Someone outside the utility has to build it first.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Tatitlek Management Services wins $2.8 million State Department maintenance order
Tatitlek Management Services won a $2.8 million State Department maintenance contract running through August 2027.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Alaska primary: who advanced and what passed, in unofficial results
Peltola and Sullivan head to November, Begich leads the House field, four of 17 governor tickets advance, and donation caps passed with 71%
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Skagway's ferry terminal is closed indefinitely for work the state planned as a one-week job
Skagway's ferry terminal is closed indefinitely for emergency anchor-chain repairs. A February notice had planned the same work as a one-week closure.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Anchorage approves a Muldoon Road marijuana store, over a dispute about how close it sits to a playground
Anchorage approved a Muldoon Road marijuana store 8-3, over objections about how close it sits to a playground and whether a stricter state buffer applies.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Fairbanks correctional officer charged with sexually assaulting inmate in transport van
A correctional officer is charged with sexually assaulting a woman in his custody inside a state transport van in 2024, a case that surfaced only this year.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Eight Alaska fishery disaster requests are past the deadline federal law sets
Eight Alaska fishing communities are owed federal disaster relief the law says is already overdue, and until the decisions come, no one gets paid.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Alaska's cruise ship wastewater permit expired in 2019 and is still in force
Twenty-eight cruise ships discharged treated wastewater in Alaska last season under a 2014 permit that expired in 2019. Nine discharges were unauthorized.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
A Caterpillar dealer wants to fill nearly 20 acres of south Anchorage wetlands to build a new store
A Caterpillar dealer wants to fill nearly 20 acres of south Anchorage wetlands for a store, proposing no mitigation.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
All-ability play center opens in Midtown Anchorage, partly with marijuana tax money
An outdoor play center built for children with disabilities has opened in Midtown Anchorage. The ribbon-cutting is Wednesday evening, with open play after.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Trump names Kyle Reardon to the Alaska judgeship vacant since 2024
Trump named Kyle Reardon to Alaska's federal judgeship, empty two years. In a 2025 bar poll, three-quarters of respondents couldn't say if he was qualified.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Juneau job seekers can meet several employers in one stop this week
Juneau job seekers can meet several employers in one stop Thursday at a state recruiting event, though details are thin — call the job center to confirm.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
A sharp cut to West Coast salmon limits lands on fish Alaska shares
Federal managers cut West Coast Chinook troll limits by three-quarters, and because the salmon are shared, mixed stocks, the change reaches Alaska's runs too.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Bristol Bay 2027 sockeye forecast to fall below 50 million, ending an 11-year run
Bristol Bay's sockeye run is forecast at 44.2 million for 2027, which would end an eleven-year streak above 50 million. The state still grades that strong.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Hiker flown off Sigugu Shaa mountain near Hoonah after seizure
A hiker had a seizure on a mountain near Hoonah, and a team of volunteers and medics stabilized them and got them off the mountain and to a hospital.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago1 min readAI
The town of Whittier has had no gas for weeks, and it's only manageable because it's summer
The whole town of Whittier has had no natural gas since Aug. 16 and won't get it back until Sept. 5, and it's manageable mainly because it's still warm out.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Anchorage will pay to steer people toward treatment instead of jail, using opioid-settlement money
Anchorage's Assembly voted 11-0 to pay True North Recovery about $398,000 to steer people toward treatment instead of jail, using opioid-settlement money.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Anchorage wants to buy three new garbage trucks for about $1.47 million
Anchorage's trash utility wants three new garbage trucks for about $1.47 million, and a bulk-purchasing deal shaved roughly $282,000 off the sticker price.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Anchorage approves $40,000 to update Merrill Field's airport layout plan
Anchorage approved $40,000, almost all of it federal, to update Merrill Field's airport layout plan after new flight procedures changed what it must show.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
A Hillside road area may spend far more than planned after erosion damage
A small Hillside neighborhood that maintains its own roads may spend nearly $99,000 this year — up from about $21,000 — after ice and spring runoff caused heavy road erosion.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
A Sitka Street railroad crossing rebuild will cost Anchorage $91,000 more than agreed
Anchorage's Sitka Street railroad crossing rebuild will cost about $91,000 more than agreed after high bids — a tab that falls on nearby property owners.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI