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Valdez weighs all but ending property tax on homes
Valdez is weighing all but ending property tax on homes — affordable because oil is most of its base, though it may test Alaska's limits on taxing industry.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
A missing health certification is holding up the Homestead Lounge's liquor license transfer
Anchorage Assembly votes Tuesday on a conditional protest of a liquor license transfer at The Homestead Lounge in Eagle River, held up by a missing health certification.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
An Anchorage cannabis grower's license renewal turns on a $12,760 tax bill
Anchorage Assembly protested a marijuana grower's state license renewal over $12,760 in unpaid taxes and an incomplete inspection, but can lift the protest once the company settles the debt.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Downtown Anchorage owners face a $1.15 million yearly bill
779 downtown Anchorage owners would owe a combined $1.15 million this year for snow removal, security, tourism and beautification — $20K-plus to under $300.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
A faulting cable under the Loussac Library would cost the city a permanent easement
Anchorage Assembly will vote Tuesday on letting Chugach Electric replace a failing power cable under Loussac Library at no cost to the city.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
A Midtown hotel vacant since a 2019 fire seeks approval to serve alcohol
Anchorage Assembly votes Tuesday on a liquor permit for the Courtyard by Marriott Midtown on A Street, with no public opposition filed so far.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
A dollar-a-year lease would help stand up an American Legion post near Alaska's first state veterans cemetery
A dollar-a-year lease would help build an American Legion post in Salcha, beside Alaska's first state veterans cemetery — a 257-acre site for 12,000+ vets.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Fairbanks voters will weigh banning voting machines for hand counts
Fairbanks voters decide Oct. 6 whether to ban voting machines and hand-count all ballots — an initiative its backers call cost-saving and its critics contest.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Akiachak is in line for fiber broadband, one of seven roadless villages getting wired
Akiachak is in line for fiber broadband, one of seven roadless Y-K Delta villages being wired in a project reaching nearly 3,000 long-unserved households.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Deep Inlet reopens to the commercial fleet after the hatchery takes its cut
Alaska reopened Deep Inlet to commercial salmon fishing after the state hatchery finished cost-recovery operations, ending a closure that began June 28.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Chignik fishermen get a five-day opening, but most of the area stays closed on weak runs
Chignik Bay and Central districts open for commercial salmon Aug. 17-21, but the window is provisional and most other Chignik areas stay closed due to low pink and chum counts.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Complaints against Wilson and Taylor governor campaigns question donation source, not size
Former Anchorage Assembly chair filed complaints against two GOP governor candidates. Wilson campaign received $25,000 donation listed as both company and individual, unclear which is true. Taylor campaign failed to describe $147,000 in consultant and lawyer payments beyond listing them as retainers.
by Lucas Brownadded 1mo ago2 min readAI
Federal funds for gender-transition care for Alaska minors on Medicaid end in October
A federal rule ends Medicaid matching funds for Alaska minors' gender-transition care Oct. 13. It's not a ban; whether the state keeps covering it is unknown.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Yaadás clan historian says he only recently traced how his clan got the beaver crest
Yaadás clan historian Benjamin Young recently traced two competing accounts of how his Haida clan acquired the beaver crest, one from early ethnography and one from fur trade history.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Anchorage commission backs Eagle River rezone over two neighbors' objections
Two Eagle River neighbors are fighting a rezone that would lift 2002 building limits on a lot they say floods and moose use. The Assembly hears it Sept. 15.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min readAI
Browsing AlaskaJobs as a guest can cost you UI benefits
Browsing AlaskaJobs as a guest instead of registering can cost unemployed Alaskans their UI benefits — you must register within seven days of filing.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
A heat advisory covers much of Southeast Alaska through Friday evening
A heat advisory covers much of Southeast Alaska through Friday evening, with temperatures in the lower 80s — a real risk in a region where most homes have no air conditioning.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Gillnetters near Ketchikan and Haines get an extra day on the water
Drift gillnetters near Ketchikan and Haines got an extra day on the water this week, with some inlets and canal waters closed off in exchange.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
A Juneau evacuation route is restricted as the valley floods
A Juneau road is restricted to local traffic as the Mendenhall Valley floods from the Suicide Basin outburst, with about 5,000 people told to evacuate.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Thursday's lane closure at mile 89 on the Richardson Highway is off Alaska 511's list
Richardson Highway Lane Closed
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche files to run again
Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche, a former Soldotna mayor and state Senate President, filed to run for another term ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Troopers arrest Charles Yingst in Big Lake on warrants topping $2 million
Alaska State Troopers arrested Charles Yingst in Big Lake on Wednesday on warrants totaling more than $2 million for fraud and escape charges.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
King salmon fishing stays closed across the Tanana drainage
King salmon fishing stays closed across the Tanana drainage, with no change, as Yukon king runs remain at historic lows and escapement goals go unmet.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Mat-Su sex offender sweep produces 17 arrests, 15 of them for registration violations
Alaska State Troopers arrested 17 people during a three-day sex offender compliance sweep in the Mat-Su Valley but located only 60 of 100 registered offenders targeted for checks.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
A commission wants tougher riverbank protection than the developers asked for on a proposed Chena RV park
A Fairbanks commission wants tougher riverbank rules than a proposed Chena RV park's developers, and staff, sought — over how much to guard the water.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
One rough winter tore up Hillside roads, and self-funded neighborhoods are footing the bill
One rough winter tore up a Hillside neighborhood's roads enough that its self-funded maintenance budget would nearly quintuple, and other areas want the same.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Situk River's Nine Mile Bridge stretch stays closed to all fishing through Aug. 31
Alaska Fish and Game extended the Situk River Nine Mile Bridge fishing closure to Aug. 31 after the Chinook run fell to 219 fish, less than a quarter of the forecast.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Cordova, in a rainy region, asks residents to conserve water
Cordova, in one of Alaska's rainiest regions, is running low on water after a dry stretch and low snowpack — and the coming rain won't be enough to refill it.
by Alaska News1mo ago1 min readAI
Unalaska council retroactively approves a three-year-old library internet contract
Unalaska City Council approved a five-year internet contract for the public library at $108,876 yearly, with federal E-Rate funding covering about half the cost.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago1 min readAI
NOAA pulled the plug on its 20-year Arctic climate record — and Alaska's scientists are scrambling to save it
NOAA cut its 20-year Arctic warming record, written largely by Alaskans — and UAF scientists are now scrambling to publish the 2026 edition themselves.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min readAI
Sealaska Heritage honors four Southeast educators at Juneau conference
Sealaska Heritage Institute awarded four Southeast Alaska educators for weaving Indigenous knowledge into classrooms at its annual conference in Juneau.
by Melinda Communities.Newsadded 1mo ago1 min readAI
Palmer man accused of DUI after forcing officer off Parks Highway
A Palmer man ran a Wasilla officer off the Parks Highway, then admitted to a bottle of wine and being too drunk to drive. His breath test came back at 0.109.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Money floods a dead-even Alaska Senate race
Alaska's U.S. Senate race is awash in unprecedented money — some $30 million — as Sullivan and Peltola run dead even ahead of the Aug. 18 primary.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Smokejumpers contained the McCloud Fire at one acre, and found a lost person during the initial attack
Eight smokejumpers and two helicopters responded Wednesday to a half-acre fire burning 12.5 miles west of Fox, with no structures threatened.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Two arrested after reported armed robbery at Big Lake campground
Alaska State Troopers arrested two Anchorage residents after three campers were robbed at gunpoint at Northshore Campground in Big Lake early Wednesday, Aug. 12.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
New federal rule limits e-scooters and hoverboards in national parks
A new federal rule starting Sept. 11 limits e-scooters, hoverboards and Segways in national parks to designated areas and bars them from wilderness entirely.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Chignik moves to surrender the federal license on its long-dormant hydro plant
Chignik moves to surrender the federal license on a hydro plant idle since 2012, to build a state-run replacement. Residents have until Sept. 10 to weigh in.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago1 min readAI
Ben Le, missing since a hike at Port Armstrong on Aug. 10, was found dead at the bottom of a cliff
A hiker missing near Port Armstrong since Monday is being searched by crews that added a thermal drone team Wednesday morning after ground and aerial searches found no sign of him.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Juneau asks Mendenhall Lake evacuation zone residents to leave by 3 p.m.
Juneau ordered 5,000 residents in the Mendenhall Valley evacuation zone to leave by 3 p.m. Wednesday as a glacial outburst flood crests early Thursday.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago3 min readAI
Eklutna Tailrace closes stretch to anglers 16 and older Saturday
Alaska Department of Fish and Game closes a stretch of Eklutna Tailrace to anglers 16 and older on Saturday, Aug. 15, to give kids 15 and younger a youth-only coho salmon fishery from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI