Alaska

Anchorage marks Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month, now recognized in state law

Anchorage marks Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month for the third year, and the first under state law. Alaska's Hispanic history runs back to the canneries.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage Assembly takes up next year's budget priorities

The Anchorage Assembly takes up its budget priorities for the coming year Tuesday, along with two appointments to city commissions.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Ketchikan borough seeks proposals for Herring Cove neighborhood plan

Ketchikan borough voted to hire a planning firm for Herring Cove, where 55,000 to 60,000 annual visitors overwhelm a site with no sidewalks, restrooms, or bear-proof trash bins.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Homer transfers its ice house lease to Silver Bay Seafoods

The Homer City Council approved transferring the Fish Dock Road ice house lease from OBI Seafoods to Silver Bay Seafoods, catching up to an existing change.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readFrom Aug 10

Cordova weighs an $870,000 electrified bear fence for its landfill

Cordova is spending as much as $870,000 to keep bears out of its landfill. A resident says the cattle guards in the design are made for cows.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Free medical, dental and vision care comes to Sullivan Arena Sept. 19-20

Free medical, dental and vision care is available to anyone at Anchorage's Sullivan Arena Sept. 19 and 20 — no ID, insurance or income required. Come early.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

A Jeep rolled in Nikiski with a 14-year-old inside and the driver was arrested

A Jeep rolled onto its side in Nikiski with a 14-year-old inside. Troopers arrested the driver for DUI, the third such arrest in the area this summer.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage weighs paving and expanding the Basher Trailhead lot

Anchorage would pave and expand the 16-car Basher Trailhead lot to 52 spaces. Staff back it but warn it could draw more cars if parking isn't priced.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Alaska is adding a fingerprint background check to EMS licensing, starting in 2027

Alaska will require fingerprint background checks for EMS providers starting in 2027, as it joins a national compact letting EMTs work across state lines.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Juneau board to hear flood update as barrier upkeep costs climb

Juneau's Utility Advisory Board gets an update Thursday on last month's glacial flood, which damaged 12 homes, as barrier upkeep costs climb.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Minnesota hunter cited for wanton waste of a caribou near Sagwon

Minnesota hunter cited for leaving edible meat unsalvaged on a bull caribou near Sagwon and removing antlers before finishing the salvage.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readFrom Aug 22

Alaska congenital syphilis cases hit a record in 2025

Alaska recorded 14 cases of congenital syphilis in 2025, the most ever, in a disease preventable with a test and a shot. Native infants were hit hardest.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

The University of Alaska owns the look of a Fairbanks man's pliers

A Fairbanks man designed a pair of pliers and the university owns how they look for 15 years. If it passes on selling them, he gets them back.

by Alaska News2mo ago1 min read

Two Arctic climate-data sources lose federal funding, kept alive by others

Two Arctic climate-data sources Alaska relies on lost their federal funding this past year. Both are now kept alive by universities and private groups.

by Alaska News2mo ago2 min readFrom Aug 1

Kodiak's silver salmon are stacking up at the Buskin, waiting for rain

Kodiak's silver salmon are piling up at the mouth of the Buskin River, waiting for rain to move upstream — with only about 500 counted so far this season.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Matanuska Electric posts its list of $451,000 in unclaimed capital credits

Matanuska Electric says more than $451,000 in capital credits sit unclaimed by current and former members, with one owed roughly $15,000.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Sep 1

The public dock at King Salmon Airport would stay open five more years

The public boat and floatplane dock at King Salmon Airport would stay open under the Bristol Bay Borough for another five years under a state extension.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Three UAA hockey teams become the first teams in the Hall of Fame

Three early-1990s Seawolf hockey teams will be the first teams ever inducted into UAA's Hall of Fame, which has honored only individuals since 2001.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Troopers find drugs on an inmate at the Fairbanks jail

Troopers found drugs on an inmate being booked into the Fairbanks jail Wednesday, the third such investigation there this year.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

An Anchorage housing ordinance does more than its title says

Anchorage's shop-house ordinance would also shrink the minimum commercial lot to about 2,700 square feet. The city says it outgrew its own title.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Red Dog's port has carried a top-tier air violation for years with no penalty

The port shipping Red Dog's ore has carried a top-tier EPA air-pollution violation for dust for nearly six years, with no formal state enforcement.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Alyeska wants the pipeline on state land until 2064

Alyeska asked the state to renew the pipeline lease through 2064, eight years early. Its own letter argues the commissioner is required to approve it.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Follows: The pipeline's owners want another 30 years, seven years before they have to ask

Ninety-two Alaska water systems are listed as serious violators

Ninety-two Alaska water systems are federal serious violators, close to three times the national rate. The state has not brought a formal action since 2020.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Anchorage Assembly has one meeting left before a transit safety deadline

Anchorage has one meeting left before a federal deadline to fix its transit safety plan. Assaults involving security staff rose by half last year.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

AT&T's parking lot at the Anchorage port could stay until 2041

AT&T's parking and storage yard at the Anchorage port could stay through 2041, though rent has only been set for the first five of those 15 years.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Juneau harbor board weighs charter passenger fee of $7.50, up from $2.05

Juneau's port director wants to raise the charter passenger fee at Statter Harbor to $7.50 per person, up from $2.05, to help fund harbor expansion.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

A third of Anchorage's buses are past their federal life span

A third of Anchorage's full-size bus fleet is past its federal useful life. The Assembly votes Sept. 15 on replacing six of the 26 aging buses.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kodiak is replacing hospital power switches nobody makes parts for anymore

Kodiak is replacing four 27-year-old power switches at the hospital that no longer have available parts, spending $151,155 on design work before construction begins.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

A $2 fix could cut $49,944 a year off Bethel's fitness center energy bill

Two dollars. That is what Bethel would have to spend to cut nearly $50,000 a year off the fitness center energy bill, according to an audit.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

The roof went on wrong at Bethel's gym expansion and has to come off

The roof and walls went on wrong at Bethel's gym expansion. They come back off at no cost to the city, and nobody has set a new completion date.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kenai Peninsula assembly president proposes rewrite of rules for filling assembly vacancies

Kenai Peninsula Assembly President Ryan Tunseth is proposing to rewrite the rules for filling vacant assembly seats, with a public hearing set for Oct. 20.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kenai Peninsula mayor's ordinance would regulate weather modification

The Kenai Peninsula Borough would regulate cloud seeding on its land and ask the state to consider banning weather modification.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

10 Kuskokwim Delta villages named in flood outlooks for Friday

High water coming down the Kuskokwim meets storm surge pushing up it at Friday's high tide. Ten western Alaska villages could see flooding or erosion.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Four of seven Kodiak Assembly seats are on the Oct. 6 ballot

Four of the seven Kodiak Island Borough Assembly seats are on the Oct. 6 ballot, all elected borough-wide. Early voting runs Sept. 21 to Oct. 5.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage candidates would need signatures to get on the city ballot

Anchorage candidates would need voter signatures to make the ballot. It would take 63 in one Assembly district and 162 in another about the same size.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

A Fox placer miner asked to move Treasure Creek. The state's public notice says equipment and an operator.

A miner near Fox wants to move part of Treasure Creek, but the state's public notice describes the request in eight words and never mentions the creek.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Sep 2

Anchorage Assembly ordinance restores parking permit rule its planning commission voted 8-0 to cut

Anchorage's planning commission voted unanimously to drop a parking lot restriction. The Assembly sponsors put it back in and will take it up Oct. 20.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage company wins patent for adjustable pipeline support

Two Anchorage inventors have patented a pipeline support you can raise or lower with a hand crank — a simple fix for supports that shift as permafrost thaws.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Kenai beautification panel floats $700,000 tennis and pickleball court rebuild

Rebuilding Kenai High's tennis courts into two tennis and four pickleball courts would run about $700,000, the parks director told a commission.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Sand Point salmon fishery gets 131-hour opening in Stepovak sections

Sand Point salmon fishery opens for 131 hours Thursday through Tuesday in five Stepovak sections for purse seine and set gillnet permit holders.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read