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Troopers identify driver who left Ester street light crash
Alaska State Troopers identified a driver who knocked down a street light near Chena Ridge Road in Ester and left the scene without reporting the crash.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago1 min readAI
Talkeetna residents ask Mat-Su commission to oppose Front Street water tank site
Talkeetna's wells have too much arsenic. The borough's fix would clear 1.4 acres of woods with a bear trail through it, and neighbors want another site.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago2 min readAI
Kipnuk households paid $18 million; no village infrastructure project
Kipnuk families got $18 million in disaster aid after losing 153 homes, but almost none of the money to rebuild roads, water and public buildings has come.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago2 min readAI
Alaska put $5.63 billion in road and ferry plans out for comment
Alaska put $5.63 billion in road, bridge and ferry plans out for public comment through Oct. 29. It scheduled no public meetings on any of it.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago1 min readAI
State moves to permit an antimony ore crusher near Port MacKenzie
The state tentatively approved an air permit for an antimony ore crusher near Port MacKenzie, without publishing any estimate of what it would put into the air.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago1 min readAI
Ketchikan council to vote Thursday on $30,000 landslide grant
Ketchikan votes Thursday on $30,000 to work out how much rain makes the slopes above town dangerous. The work already started two weeks ago.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago2 min readAI
Fire at Whittier's new cruise terminal forces ships from the dock
A fire at Whittier's new cruise terminal Monday forced a tour boat and a cruise ship off the dock and closed the only road into town for hours. No one was hurt.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago1 min readAI
A bill would guarantee vehicle access for the village inside Gates of the Arctic
A national park was drawn around Anaktuvuk Pass in 1980 without asking. A bill would guarantee the village the right to drive out and go hunting.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 4d ago2 min readAI
APD's new drone notice leaves annual-report questions unanswered
APD disclosed a drone at Sunday's standoff, but the five-line notice leaves the warrant and footage questions missing from its annual report
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 4d ago2 min readAI
Anchorage can build housing with this grant now. Residents asked for teardowns
Congress just let Anchorage spend block grant money on new housing for the first time in 50 years. The residents who showed up asked for demolitions.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago2 min readAI
Alaska has $272 million to change rural health care. The requests reached $2.5 billion.
Alaska has 217 preliminary rural health awards worth about $209 million — enough to replace equipment and add services, but not to replace Medicaid coverage.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago4 min readAI
A dam licensed near Juneau 10 years ago still isn't built, and its deadline just passed
A dam licensed near Juneau a decade ago was never built, its construction deadline just expired, and the local utility says the town doesn't need the power.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago2 min readAI
Anchorage put $100,000 into five public art projects, Hillside mural among them
Anchorage is putting $100,000 into five public art projects, including a Hillside mural its arts commission ranked first among eight applicants.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago1 min readAI
Anchorage seeks ideas for its Darwin sister-city partnership
Anchorage residents can suggest what the city should do with Darwin, Australia, its sister city since 1982. Ideas are due to the commission by Sept. 30.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago1 min readAI
A Merrill Field WWII memorial crumbles with no one responsible
A WWII memorial at Merrill Field is cracking and dark, repairs run about $100,000, and the only money in sight is a $17,000 grant meant for something else.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago2 min readAI
Anchorage assessment appeals hit a record, and the board filled up to cope
Anchorage owners filed a record 1,990 assessment appeals this year, quadruple last year's, and the board filled every seat for the first time in 20 years.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago1 min readAI
Kodiak staff urge keeping Beaver Lake land as the borough hunts for housing sites
Kodiak's manager wants to open Beaver Lake land to housing. The borough's own planning staff say keep it — and the commission said no in 2019.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
An Alaska psilocybin initiative faces its signature deadline Monday
An Alaska psilocybin legalization drive spent $150,000 and has $1,354 left. Its signature deadline is Monday, and no count has been made public.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago3 min readAI
Haines votes on whether to stop electing its planning commission
Haines voters elect four planning commissioners Oct. 6 and, on the same ballot, decide whether the borough should go back to appointing them instead.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago2 min readAI
Managers want to double a halibut cap. Their own analysis warns against it.
Federal managers want to roughly double a halibut vessel cap in the Bering Sea, though their own analysis says it helps a few big boats at the fleet's expense.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago3 min readAI
The Permanent Fund earned a record $8.2 billion the Legislature can appropriate
The Permanent Fund earned a record $8.2 billion that lawmakers can spend. Nothing has been appropriated for inflation-proofing in three years.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago2 min readAI
The court found an obvious error in his commitment and upheld it anyway
Alaska's Supreme Court found an obvious error in a homeless man's commitment and upheld it anyway. The ruling came two and a half years after he was released.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago3 min readAI
Parents warn Mat-Su that cutting school nurses puts children at risk
Parents and staff told the Mat-Su school board that cutting nurses puts children at risk, as a Teeland Middle School nurse prepares to leave.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago1 min readAI
Anchorage police shoot carjacking suspect after East 37th Avenue standoff
Anchorage police say the man officers shot on East 37th Avenue had, hours earlier, pistol-whipped an older man unconscious and stolen his truck.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago2 min readAI
Anchorage coded most sampled spending to the wrong account, audit finds
Anchorage miscoded 72% of sampled spending, an audit found — because nobody ever wrote down what the city's accounting categories actually mean.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 5d ago2 min readAI
Fairbanks votes Oct. 6 on capping taxes, moving elections and hand counts
Fairbanks voters decide Oct. 6 whether to cap borough taxes, move elections to November and count ballots by hand. Any of it locks for two years.
by Maggie AlaskaNews6d ago2 min readAI
Unalaska votes Oct. 6, at the one polling place in town
Unalaska votes for city and school board seats Oct. 6 at City Hall, the town's only polling place, open 8 am to 8 pm. Six people will run it.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago1 min readAI
Flood watch warns Chena and Little Chena could top minor flood stage Wednesday
Half an inch to an inch of rain is landing on ground that is already soaked. The Little Chena is the river for Fairbanks to keep an eye on now.
by Maggie AlaskaNews6d ago2 min readAI
Alaska's new ethics law names the wrong person in a complaint
Alaska's new ethics law tells the committee to meet with the wrong person in a complaint. The ethics committee voted to ask for a fix.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago1 min readAI
Ten sockeye a day holds through December in the Wood and Nushagak
Anglers can keep 10 sockeye a day in the Wood and Nushagak through December, double the usual. The kings in the same water are a stock of concern.
by Bill AlaskaNews6d ago1 min readAI
Alaska proposes a new payment formula for its 24-hour behavioral health clinics
Alaska wants to change how it pays two clinics providing 24-hour behavioral health care, setting rates in advance. Public comment is open through Oct. 30.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago1 min readAI
Fairbanks dense fog advisory expired at noon after visibility fell to 100 yards
Fog in Fairbanks got thick enough Monday that you could see about a hundred yards, and it did that an hour after the advisory was supposed to end.
by Maggie AlaskaNews6d ago1 min readAI
A road crew wants to camp in a gravel pit while it fixes the Elliott Highway
A contractor fixing 12 miles of the Elliott Highway wants to park 20 people in RVs on state gravel while it works. Comment closes Sept. 28.
by Maggie AlaskaNews6d ago1 min readAI
A Tanana company will dig diesel out from under old BIA school sites
The government left diesel in the ground under old BIA schools in Western Alaska. It is paying a Tanana company $247,786 to dig some of it out.
by Maggie AlaskaNews5d ago1 min readAI
Search resumes on Kasilof River for man missing after boat overturns
A 67-year-old Kasilof man is missing after his boat overturned on the Kasilof River Sunday. The search resumed Monday by air, boat and on foot.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago1 min readAI
A free Juneau talk on how a manuscript becomes a book
Two editors from the press that publishes the University of Alaska's books will explain how a manuscript becomes a book, at a free Juneau talk Saturday.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago1 min readAI
South Anchorage council asks state and city for interim school-route safety projects
Fifteen pedestrians were killed on Alaska roads last year, the highest rate in a decade. One Anchorage council is asking for whatever can be done fast.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 5d ago2 min readAI
A Doyon director steps off the board to lead its scholarship foundation
Geri Simon stepped down from the board of Doyon, Limited — Alaska's largest private landowner — to lead its scholarship foundation, leaving a seat to fill.
by Maggie AlaskaNews6d ago2 min readAI
The any-bull option closes in Unit 13C after three moose filled the quota
The any-bull option closes in Unit 13C at midnight Tuesday after three bulls filled the quota. The subunit's allotment dropped from five last year.
by Bill AlaskaNews6d ago1 min readAI
Troopers find two asleep in sedan towing stacked logs, cocaine in driver's lap
Troopers pulled alongside a log-hauling sedan in Soldotna and found the driver and passenger asleep, cocaine in his lap, they say. He's presumed innocent.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago1 min readAI