Alaska

Federal grant of $500,000 would replace generators on the mountaintop relays that carry Akhiok's internet

A $500,000 federal grant will replace aging generators and batteries at two mountain relays that carry internet to Akhiok, a remote village on Kodiak Island.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Aug 31

Anchorage Assembly schedules Hispanic Heritage Month health fair with Spanish-speaking staff

Anchorage Assembly is scheduling a health fair with Spanish-speaking staff and translation services for Saturday, Oct. 3, as part of Hispanic Heritage Month events starting Sept. 20.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Three Kodiak westside sections now open until further notice; 54-hour period ends 6 p.m. Saturday

Three Kodiak sections are open to salmon seining until further notice. The period covering much of the rest of the area closes Saturday evening.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 2

Frost advisory covers Juneau, Yakutat, Hoonah and Gustavus through Friday

A frost advisory covers Juneau, Yakutat and nearby areas early Friday, with temperatures near 35 that could kill uncovered plants.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

NWS forecasts water 5 feet above high tide at Golovin through Friday

Water is forecast 3 to 5 feet above the normal high tide line at Golovin through Friday, the third stretch of high water there in three weeks.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage police seek help finding Allison Wilson, 41, missing since Thursday morning

Anchorage police are asking for help finding Allison Wilson, 41, who didn't return from her shift Thursday. She drives a maroon Subaru with front-end damage.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Juneau aging commission to vote Sept. 15 on demanding paratransit fix or new contractor

Juneau's paratransit riders have gone ten months without service that meets the contract, the chair of the city's aging commission says.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage keeps funding a $5 million median barrier on 5th Avenue

An Anchorage committee kept funding a $5 million median barrier on 5th Avenue, over an objection that the decade-old crash data doesn't justify it.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Juneau water and sewer bills go up 5 percent a year through 2030

Juneau's water and sewer bills go up 5 percent a year through 2030. The utility runs on ratepayers alone, and voters rejected a bond to share the load.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min read

Two Fairbanks rezones could take 32 lots to 99 dwelling units total

Fairbanks is being asked to upzone two residential corridors in five days. Together they would take 32 lots from 34 units up to as many as 99.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Bristol Bay students can apply for a December leadership forum

Bristol Bay high school students have until Oct. 9 to apply for a youth leadership forum in Anchorage in December.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Follows: Bristol Bay Native Corporation is taking pitches for its December leadership forum

Alaska Supreme Court hears appeal over Kotzebue officer's immunity in 2022 shooting

Supreme Court heards Kotzebue case

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Haines Highway paving means 20-minute waits through Sunday

Paving on the Haines Highway means waits up to 20 minutes through Sunday, and Klukwan drivers have to change entrances partway through Saturday.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kenai's airport expects to reopen its main runway around Sept. 21

Kenai's airport expects to move flights back onto its rebuilt main runway around Sept. 21, ending four months of landing planes on a taxiway.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage board sets seven property appeal hearings for next week

Anchorage owners filed a record 1,953 assessment appeals. The city had already found about 660 homes over-assessed before the hearings began.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

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

Fiber easement for four Koyukuk River villages grows to 96 acres, and comments close Oct. 12

Tanana Chiefs Conference expanded a fiber optic easement to 96 acres to bring high-speed internet to four Koyukuk River villages, with public comments due Oct. 12.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Three quarters of Alaska's planned college-rule cuts fall on student aid

Alaska's student aid agency plans to cut 205 of its rules, most governing financial aid, under a statewide order to shrink regulation.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

DNR gives records denial power to two job titles, no named employees

DNR Commissioner John Crowther gave records-denial power to two job titles instead of named staff. The change makes it unclear who can now refuse public records requests.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Some Alaskans on HealthCare.gov are due $500 refund checks in October, but nobody has said how many

About 73,300 Alaskans who buy unsubsidized health coverage on HealthCare.gov will receive $500 checks starting in October, but those without any marketplace coverage won't qualify.

by Alaska News2mo ago2 min read

Southcentral is 3 Bcf short this winter, and producers told lawmakers the gas runs out in 2029

Southcentral Alaska faces a natural gas shortage by winter 2029 unless it imports liquefied natural gas or taps North Slope supplies, Hilcorp and Chugach told lawmakers Thursday.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Unimak Bight scallop grounds close tonight with the season's 7,500-pound quota filled

Alaska closed Unimak Bight to commercial scallop fishing for the rest of the 2026/27 season effective Thursday after catch reports showed the 7,500-pound guideline would be met.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

West Coast halibut catch falls to a fifth of June's rate as NOAA adds a sixth period

The West Coast halibut fleet can't catch its full allocation — a sign of strain in a coastwide stock, near 40-year lows, that Alaska also depends on.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Juneau driver, 33, dies in Hyer Road crash in Palmer

A Juneau driver died Thursday morning after his vehicle became airborne over the Hyer underpass in Palmer and struck a concrete support.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Alaska pauses weekly rural health awards with $207 million of $272 million announced

Alaska has announced $207 million of a $272 million rural health award across 217 projects, pausing its weekly announcement schedule as it processes the remaining awards by an Oct. 30 deadline.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read

Prince William Sound anglers still limited to one king salmon a day

Anglers in most of Prince William Sound are held to one king salmon a day — half the usual — through Sept. 15, under a restriction over low king numbers.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

SEARHC is hiring for 21 Juneau-area jobs, half of them in dentistry

SEARHC is hiring for 21 jobs in the Juneau area this week, nearly half of them in dentistry, with signing bonuses on some clinical roles.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Sitka takes household hazardous waste free for two days next month, but not lithium-ion batteries

Sitka opens free household hazardous waste collection Saturday and Sunday at the Wastewater Treatment Plant, accepting oils, paints, antifreeze, and batteries except lithium-ion types.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Alaska Democrats ask Anchorage court to strike Tagle from November ballot

Alaska Democrats are back in court to remove Republican Jose Tagle from the ballot, after Dahlstrom certified him over an APOC finding against him.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Nine new deep-sea sponge species confirmed in Gulf of Alaska and Aleutians

Scientists found nine sponge species new to science off Alaska, one so strange it needed its own genus. Alaska now claims 232 kinds of sponge.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Alaska clerks are under four weeks out from local elections

Alaska clerks have under four weeks to get local elections ready, and one deadline in the state's own training had already gone by when they were told about it.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kodiak posts its election guide in Tagalog for the island's Filipino voters

Kodiak posted its Oct. 6 election guide in English and Tagalog — reflecting the island's Filipino community and a long effort to help those residents vote.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Oil above $101 puts Alaska's budget on a war in the Persian Gulf

Every dollar oil moves is worth about $35 million to Alaska's treasury. Brent closed above $101 Wednesday, up more than half from a year ago.

by Alaska News2mo ago2 min read

An ordinance would tighten oversight of Anchorage's staffing overruns

Anchorage's government has run past its budgeted position count five years running. Three Assembly members want future overruns to need the mayor's sign-off.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

North Slope oil is running below the state's forecast so far, and the price is running above it

Alaska's oil is flowing below the state's revenue forecast while the price runs above it. The two effects roughly offset, and the year is only ten weeks old.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

A third Baranof Island goat zone closes early as the state guards the herd

Baranof Island's Lisa Creek goat zone closes Sept. 13 after two billies filled its quota — the third zone shut down early this year over population worries.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Dense fog advisories end across Southeast Alaska after quarter-mile visibility

Fog cut visibility to a quarter mile or less across parts of Southeast early Thursday, thickest along the road to Juneau's airport. It has since lifted.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Three Aleutians dams could be reclassified as threats to life downstream

Three Aleutians dams could be reclassified "high hazard," meaning their failure would threaten lives downstream, under a draft open for public review.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

The Legislature will spend $50,000 defending the seizure of a pilot's plane

A six-pack of Budweiser cost an Alaska bush pilot his $95,000 plane. The Legislature has now voted $50,000 to defend that at the Supreme Court.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Weather cancels Koniag townhalls in two villages, three weeks before the board vote

High winds canceled Koniag's first two 2026 shareholder townhalls in Akhiok and Old Harbor on Wednesday, replacing them with meal and sign-in gatherings as the proxy deadline approaches Sept. 30.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

NOAA is paying $735,000 for more cleanup at a site Alaska will not close

NOAA is paying $735,000 for another year of cleanup at a former weather office site, where the state has refused to close out one building yet.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read