Alaska

Flood watch covers Skagway, Haines and Klukwan through Sunday night

Skagway and Haines face heavy rain Saturday night into Sunday, landing on rivers already swollen by fast glacier melt. Flooding is possible.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Search continues for missing Akiachak boater Jonathan Lomack

Jonathan Lomack, 59, of Akiachak, has been missing on the Kuskokwim River since Tuesday night, with his boat found empty and search crews from three communities now in their third day looking for him.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Fairbanks grant would fix the Davis Road turf fields and start closing Kiwanis Field

A federal grant application before the Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and Recreation Commission on Monday would pay for upgrades at the Davis Road turf complex.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

BLM bought snowmobiles to get to Alaska's abandoned gold mines

BLM bought a UTV, an ATV and snowmobiles from a Delta Junction dealer this month to reach Alaska's abandoned gold mines. There are a lot of them.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Marijuana Board Drafts Would Strip Ad Warnings; Filing Fix Scores Highest

Dropping every health warning from Alaska marijuana ads scores 7 points on the state's deregulation scale. Reshuffling packaging rules scores 135.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min readFrom Aug 21

PFD pays Oct. 1 by direct deposit, Oct. 22 for paper filers

The state still hasn't posted what this year's dividend is worth, and the first payments go out Oct. 1. Paper filers wait until Oct. 22 for theirs.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Bering Strait homeowners waited 184 days for storm repair loans

Bering Strait homeowners waited 184 days for SBA storm-repair loans that neighbors got in nine. The state's request is dated April; the records don't say why.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min readFrom Oct 13, 2025

Sitka Assembly favors a half-point summer sales tax for child care, with no vote taken

Sitka's Assembly favored a half-point summer sales tax for child care on Sept. 8.. Staff estimate it would raise about $1.19 million a year against a $1 million package.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 8

ADF&G cuts Southeast fall Dungeness crab season to 30 days

Southeast's Dungeness fleet gets 30 fall days instead of 60, because a harvest projection built from one week of June fishing came in short.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Aug 7

Fairbanks diesel hit a record $6.70 a gallon this weekend

Fairbanks diesel hit a record $6.70 a gallon, up from $4.17 a year ago. That's the fuel that hauls everything else up the highway to the Interior.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Troopers call Kenny Lake church fire suspicious

Alaska State Troopers are investigating a fire at Mountain View Baptist Church in Kenny Lake early Tuesday as suspicious.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 15

Federal notices clear 11 Sitka ancestors for return

Two federal notices make at least 11 ancestors and 11 funerary objects eligible for return to the Sitka Tribe of Alaska.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 9

Alaska governor candidates agree on Permanent Fund, split on taxes

Taylor and Bronson opposed broad new taxes; Kreiss-Tomkins backed targeted revenue as three candidates compared fiscal, energy and workforce plans

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago4 min read

Alaska's new judicial ethics code changes reporting of incapacity and misconduct

Alaska's revised judicial ethics code takes effect Oct. 15 and clarifies when assistance-program confidentiality yields to reporting duties.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readFrom Jun 4

Permanent Fund has $5.7B uncommitted after reserving next draw, inflation transfer

The Permanent Fund had $5.7B uncommitted July 31 after reserving $4.1B for the next draw and $1.7B for inflation proofing.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 2

Saint Paul's harbor needs $90 million in work, and the city wants input

A 2021 study found Saint Paul's harbor needs over $90 million in work. Residents get two chances in October to shape what actually gets built.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Juneau cut its museum hours by two-thirds and lost half its visitors

Juneau cut its city museum from 56 hours a week down to 22. Visitors and sales fell by about half, which is roughly what you would expect.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Kotzebue gets $1.5 million to keep growing food above the Arctic Circle

Kotzebue gets $1.5 million for Alaska Native food sovereignty work. The USDA calls it national security. The people doing it call it something else.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Alaska's tribal college wins federal money for students and food knowledge

Alaska's only tribal college won $352,000 from the USDA to help students stay in school and to teach Iñupiaq food systems on the North Slope.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Alaska pot shops would have to balance their inventory every single day

Alaska pot shops would have to reconcile their whole inventory against the state system every night, under a rule the board takes up Monday.

by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago2 min read

Yakutat gillnetters must donate Chinook found dead in Situk nets

Yakutat set gillnetters open Sunday. Any king that dies in the net gets its dorsal fin cut off and handed to somebody in town who needs it.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Southeast trollers got ten more days, and a smaller fleet to fish them with

Southeast trollers got ten more days for coho. There is a smaller fleet to fish them, and the harvest is still headed below the record lows.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Chugach will charge you less at night, if you actually move your usage

Chugach will sell you cheaper power overnight and pricier power all day long. Sign up and change nothing, and you end up paying a little more.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Visiting dentist to hold five-day clinic in Nondalton

A dentist comes to Nondalton for five days starting Monday, one of the periodic visits that fill in for a permanent practice around Iliamna Lake.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Helicopter work at Erie Mine Bunkhouse brings noise to Kennicott Valley

Helicopter crews are clearing fallen rock at Erie Mine Bunkhouse this month. Kennicott Valley residents and pilots should expect added aircraft activity.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Alaska LNG updates landowner complaint procedure before construction

Alaska LNG updated its future landowner complaint process. FERC approval remains pending, and construction has not begun.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 14

Three locally drawn library cards are free at the Soldotna library through September

Soldotna's library is handing out three limited-edition cards designed by locals, including a moose under the northern lights by a 12-year-old.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 1

Trollers get Neets Bay back through the middle of October

Neets Bay is open to trollers again through Oct. 10, six weeks after it closed so the hatchery association could take its cost recovery chum.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Aug 21

Juneau invented cruise ship shore power. Doing it again costs $111.5 million

Plugging Juneau's cruise berths into the grid now runs $111.5 million, up from $24.9 million. The city has spare hydropower about a quarter of the time.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

BIA sends nearly $800,000 to five Alaska tribal governments, most of it road money

The BIA sent about $794,000 to five Alaska tribes this month, mostly for roads in Y-K Delta villages that have no road system.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Alaska school tests show early gains and a one-in-five participation gap

Alaska's younger students gained ground, but one in five enrolled students had no AK STAR score. Correspondence testing barriers explain part of the gap.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min readFrom Sep 14

Bethel's dock wall is failing and the Port Commission hasn't taken it up

The Corps warned Bethel that its City Dock wall is shifting out of alignment. The Port Commission hasn't managed to discuss it in seven months.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Alaska declines to move Kuskokwim villages into its larger Merbok tier

Alaska won't move Lower Kuskokwim villages into the larger tier of its $38.5 million Merbok grant, saying its survey found other regions hit harder.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Anchorage appeals board sets five more property hearings for Sept. 22-25

Anchorage was supposed to have finished hearing property assessment appeals by June 1. It is still hearing them, nearly four months later.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Follows: Anchorage tax appeal hearings continue into September, past the board's stated season

A goat season that runs to January is closing after six days

A goat hunt east of Unakwik Inlet closes Sunday, six days into a season that runs to January. The department says 30 days is closer to normal.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

An appeals court reopens a McLaughlin Youth Center abuse conviction

An appeals court withdrew its decision upholding a former McLaughlin Youth Center officer's abuse conviction, sending it back over withheld records.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Kuskokwim closures lifted because the coho run ended, not because it recovered

Six weeks of Kuskokwim subsistence closures lifted Friday, not because the coho finally came back but because the run is over for the year.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Fish and Game sets Prince William Sound fall herring quota at 749 tons, citing weak spring spawn

Prince William Sound's fall herring quota came in 633 tons under what the plan allows, and the spawn number behind that call was never published.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Mat-Su asks AIDEA to build at Point MacKenzie, not on 20,000 acres near Houston

The state proposed giving AIDEA 885 acres at Port MacKenzie for free, one day after the borough voted to send AIDEA there instead of Houston.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago4 min read

Anchorage's school funding gap has shrunk to about $6 million

Anchorage's school funding gap for next year has halved to about $6 million, after the Legislature capped how much the local contribution can grow.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read