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Friday, Sep 11
Three Alaska National Guard wetland surveys go out to bid, with proposals due Sept. 21
Alaska Army National Guard is buying wetland surveys at three aviation facilities in Kotzebue, Bethel and Nome, budgeted at $45,000 to $50,000 each, with proposals due 2 p.m. Sept. 21.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Comment closes Oct. 12 on a plan to dig antimony 80 miles from Trapper Creek and refine it at Port MacKenzie
Alaska is taking comment until Oct. 12 on permits for the Estelle gold and antimony project, whose applicant is a Nova Minerals subsidiary that won $43.4 million in federal defense funding to make military-grade antimony trisulfide.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Alaska has reviewed 22 police shootings since 2024 and charged no one
Alaska prosecutors have reviewed at least 22 police shootings since 2024 and charged no officer. The record clears the officer every time.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min readFrom 
Anchorage wants 10,000 homes. Its zoning fight is over where they can fit.
Anchorage wants 10,000 homes in 10 years. Tuesday's zoning fight is over where they can go — because adding homes means letting familiar blocks change.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago7 min read
ConocoPhillips asks Alaska regulators to set Willow drilling and injection rules
ConocoPhillips asked state regulators to set Willow's drilling and injection rules. Nuiqsut's city and tribe dropped their opposition letter in 2023.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom 
A $16 million award would restructure primary care across the Interior
The biggest award in Alaska's rural health program is $16 million to change how primary care gets delivered and paid for across the Interior.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Troopers arrest Anchorage man after 85 mph pursuit ends in Wasilla crash
Alaska State Troopers arrested Luke Debaere, 23, after he fled a traffic stop on the Parks Highway and crashed into trees in Wasilla, reaching 85 mph through residential areas.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
War-driven oil prices are filling Alaska's treasury while straining its households
The same oil price spike is filling Alaska's treasury and straining its households — and Trump's $2 gas promise would take more than the war ending.
by Alaska News2mo ago5 min read
More from Alaska
An antimony project's construction schedule began before comment opened
Construction schedules for an antimony mine and refinery began back in June. The state opened comment on whether to approve the work on Friday.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read
Housing projects can compete for Alaska CDBG grants, with applications due Dec. 4
Alaska's Community Development Block Grant applications are due Friday, Dec. 4, with about $2.5 million available and a maximum of $850,000 per community. Any Alaska municipal government except Anchorage may apply.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
A federal rule would ease buying Alaska seafood for school meals
More than half of Alaska's districts already serve local seafood, mostly through donations and grants. A federal rule would let them just buy it.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Ninth Circuit says tribal law cannot shield employees from federal civil rights suits
A federal appeals court ruled tribal governments cannot shield their own employees from civil rights lawsuits by writing immunity into tribal code.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read
Southcentral Foundation sends visiting providers to Tyonek, Tatitlek and Nanwalek next week
Southcentral Foundation opens four visiting clinics Sept. 14 in Tyonek, Tatitlek and Nanwalek. Tyonek has no resident doctor and sees a primary care provider once every two months.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Alaska's federal obligations are down 1.7% this year, and September has barely started
Federal obligations in Alaska are down 1.7 percent through August. Federal spending drove more than half the state's GDP growth since 2015.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
Alaska's labor board needs a public member, a job of 15 to 20 days a year
Alaska's labor relations board is accepting applications to fill one vacant public seat, requiring labor relations background and about two hours monthly.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Petersburg planning commission recommends one-year data center moratorium; developer threatens suit
Petersburg may pause data center permits for a year. The developer says a year would kill the project, and has threatened to sue the borough.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
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About Alaska
Alaska is a United States state spanning Arctic, subarctic and coastal regions. Its communities range from Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau to Kodiak, the North Slope and villages such as McGrath and Adak that sit off the road system.
The Legislature, the governor's office and state agencies set policy on oil and gas, fisheries, transportation and public lands, and state boards such as the Board of Fisheries and the AIDEA board decide on catch rules, loans and investments. Cities and boroughs keep their own budgets, taxes, liquor licenses and planning decisions.
Questions that recur across the state include local budgets and tax rates, fishery catch limits, air service and ports for remote communities, and decisions on state land. Federal agencies and courts also shape life in Alaska, from air service contracts for rural towns to the certification of statewide election results.
More from Alaska
Petersburg rejects a wireless tower next to its only fire hall over collapse fears
Petersburg's planning commission rejected a wireless tower next to the borough's only fire hall over fears it could collapse onto the station.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Anchorage weighs a five-year road-sweeping contract for Eagle River
The Anchorage Assembly decides Tuesday whether to hire Big Bear to sweep road shoulders in the Eagle River area, at up to $2.97 million over five years.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Port Alsworth visitor center gets new parking, trail on former tank farm site
Once there was a fuel tank farm, now there's a parking area and 500 feet of new deer Trail in Lake Clark, national Park and preserve.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
The Kenai coho limit stayed at two when it was supposed to go to three
Kenai River anglers expected the coho limit to rise to three fish on Sept. 1. It stayed at two instead, and will stay there through November.
by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Rabies is climbing among wildlife across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
Rabies is rising among Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta wildlife. Foxes come in to den in village landfills in late winter, and rural dogs live outdoors.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Troopers arrest Wasilla driver on DUI, assault charges after rollover
Alaska State Troopers arrested a Wasilla driver on DUI and assault charges after a rollover crash on North Wasilla-Fishhook Road late Wednesday left two people with minor injuries.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
More than 200 coho counted at Bear Creek weir near Seward
More than 200 coho have passed through Bear Creek weir near Seward, with freshwater fishing expected to improve over the next few weeks.
by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Sitka loses coho fishing as weak returns leave the hatchery short
Sitka anglers lose coho fishing in Bear Cove and Deep Inlet through October after this year's silvers came back too weak for the local hatchery to spawn.
by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
A mobile home lot near Abbott Road could become business-zoned
A mobile home lot near Abbott Road would become business-zoned. Nobody objected, and a planner noted such changes can displace mobile-home residents.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Man arrested in Soldotna on felony sex offender registry charge
Troopers arrested a 74-year-old Soldotna man Thursday on a felony charge of failing to register as a sex offender, after a probation compliance check. The dispatch says he has two prior convictions for the same offense.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Resident accuses Kodiak Island Borough Assembly of illegal poll on remote-meeting rules
A Kodiak resident challenged the borough assembly's survey on remote-meeting rules as violating the Open Meetings Act, though the borough attorney cleared it as preparation for public discussion.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Flooding closes state vocational rehabilitation office in downtown Fairbanks
Flooding closed the state Department of Labor office in downtown Fairbanks on Friday, Sept. 11, halting walk-in service for vocational rehabilitation and disability employment support.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Draft permit would let Fairbanks discharge 11.2 million gallons a day into the Tanana
Fairbanks could keep discharging up to 11.2 million gallons of treated sewage a day into the Tanana River under a draft state permit.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Wrangell calls the Dungeness crab decline a disaster; the state calls it the plan
Wrangell declared a local disaster over Dungeness crab and asked for federal relief. The state cut the season by formula and did not use the word.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom 
Troopers identify two Savoonga men dead after capsizing near St. Lawrence Island
Two Savoonga men died when their boat capsized off St. Lawrence Island. A 15-year-old survived by clinging to the overturned hull until a search crew found him.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readFrom 
Anchorage zoning board approves setback variance for Chandalar Drive home
Anchorage zoning board unanimously approved a variance allowing a Chandalar Drive home to keep an addition that has encroached 1.3 feet into the required setback since 1998
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Anchorage zoning board backs letting director approve bigger setback fixes without a hearing
An Anchorage board voted to let the planning director approve building encroachments up to 15 percent without a hearing, tripling the current threshold.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Teller woman indicted in embezzling more than $88,000 from tribe
A former coordinator for a Teller-based tribe was indicted on allegations she took more than $88,000 from the tribe's accounts.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Kodiak assembly weighs $3.85 million grant to replace failing hospital chiller
A failing chiller that supports sterilization at Kodiak's hospital is running at 35 percent, and the borough votes Wednesday on a nearly $4 million replacement.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
APOC denies expedited review of disclosure complaint against Johnson
Regulators denied both of Joel Borgquist's requests to fast-track disclosure complaints against candidates. Johnson's goes to a normal investigation.
by Lucas Brown2mo ago2 min read
New independent expenditure group registers in Anchorage to back Nellie Jimmie's re-election
A new group will spend without limits to re-elect Rep. Nellie Jimmie. Its chair is general counsel of the Native corporation for her region.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
APOC denies fast-track review of disclosure complaint against Wilson
State regulators will not fast-track a disclosure complaint against Bernadette Wilson. It goes to a normal investigation, with a hearing by Oct. 8.
by Lucas Brown2mo ago2 min read
A Haines ordinance cuts more code than the commission voted to change
Haines commissioners voted to trim one sentence of the land-use code. The draft ordinance deletes far more, including a clause nobody voted on.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom 
Funny River hunter cited after self-reporting sub-legal moose kill
A Funny River hunter self-reported killing a bull moose that didn't meet Unit 15B legal size requirements and was cited to appear in Kenai Courthouse.
by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
