Alaska

Prince of Wales heat advisory ends after temperatures reach the 80s

National Weather Service raised its heat advisory forecast for Prince of Wales Island to 82 degrees Friday, three degrees above normal summer highs for the 5,700 residents there.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Alaska adopts Medicaid rules for specialized group home and family home habilitation

Alaska adopted Medicaid rules for group and family home habilitation services. Disability providers say the new rates may still be too low to sustain services.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Federal Medicare outreach grants send $174,880 to 10 Alaska tribal elder programs

Nine Alaska tribal elder programs will share $160,460 in federal Medicare enrollment grants running through August 2027, with the largest awards going to groups in Anchorage, Dillingham, and Palmer.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

One machinegun, 14 grams of cocaine, and a mandatory 30 years

Mason Lanon, 23, of Fairbanks sold an agent a converted machinegun and 14 grams of cocaine. That single count carried a mandatory 30 years.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

NOAA proposes letting Seward cruise dock pile driving run into 2027

NOAA proposed extending Seward's cruise dock construction permit through September 2027 to finish pile driving that disturbs marine mammals in Resurrection Bay.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

Alaska prosecutors must prove a voter knew a registration form was false

Alaska's appeals court held that a first-degree voter-misconduct charge based on a false oath requires proof the voter understood the act was wrong.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

State opens four-permit muskox hunt in Unit 26B as herd falls to 220

Alaska will issue four bull muskox permits in Unit 26B starting Oct. 1, even though the herd has crashed to 220 animals, well below the 300-animal management target.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Sitka's Assembly takes up how to pay for child care

Sitka's Assembly takes up a possible child care funding source Tuesday. A survey found most parents struggle to find care and employers are feeling it too.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

The Peninsula caribou hunt opens Dec. 1 without a quota set

Alaska residents can take two caribou in the Northern Alaska Peninsula hunt opening Dec. 1, though the quota will not be set until fall surveys finish.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Federal money for elder abuse work, with a deadline next week

Alaska tribes and nonprofits can apply for federal grants of up to $750,000 to help older Alaskans facing abuse. Applications close Sept. 16.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

NOAA will stop briefing Alaska tribes before every council meeting

NOAA Fisheries will stop briefing Alaska tribes before every North Pacific council meeting, citing a substantial drop in staff since 2025.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Razor clam permit still required on Cook Inlet as September digging season runs on

Cook Inlet razor clam diggers need a subsistence permit, not the new household permit, to harvest legally this season, and east side beaches stay closed through 2027.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage canceled five assessment appeal sessions over the summer

Five Anchorage assessment appeal sessions were canceled over the summer while the backlog stretched toward November. A report ordered in February is overdue.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kodiak names a third person to run the borough when the top two are out

Kodiak Island Borough now has a third person in line to run it. He gets his first turn in December, when everyone above him is at a conference.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Tribal consortium takes ownership of Alaska Native Medical Center

The Alaska Native Medical Center is now owned by the tribes it serves instead of the federal government — a first, and one with real money behind it.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min readFrom Aug 24

One Democrat, three Republicans, and two months to go

The left consolidated behind Kreiss-Tomkins. The right split three ways. That is the shape of Alaska's governor race with two months to go.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Homer Electric reports $2.2 million June operating loss as purchased power costs run over budget

Homer Electric lost $2.2 million in June as purchased power costs ran over budget, pushing year-to-date margins $1 million below target.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Aug 11

Alaska kids can draw their way into the health department's bookmark contest

Alaska's health department wants kids 3 to 18 to draw what being a "Health Hero" means to them — winning bookmark art gets printed. Entries are due Oct. 9.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Norton Sound's health corporation is in line for $7.2 million

Norton Sound Health Corporation would get about $7.2 million in federal rural health money, most of it replacing end-of-life computers in 15 village clinics.

by Alaska News2mo ago1 min read

A proposed rule would cut years of NPR-A oil review down to 60 days

Building an oil site in the NPR-A takes years of review. A proposed rule makes it 60 days for anything within 25 miles of existing infrastructure.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago4 min read

Registration opens for Oct. 12-13 Employment First Conference in Anchorage

Alaska's Employment First Conference opens registration for Oct. 12-13 in Anchorage, with scholarship tickets available for those needing reduced rates.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Rural Alaska's internet funding is changing hands as an old federal program ends

The federal program funding phone and internet in remote Alaska is ending, and three co-ops just drew some of its last payments — $14.86 million.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min read

Two bulls close the bow-only moose hunt at Eklutna Lake, with hunters still out

Two bulls came out of the Eklutna Lake country and the bow hunt is over. That is roughly half a ton of meat taken off a herd of about seventy.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Magnitude 6.3 quake off Nikolski sets off dozens of Aleutian aftershocks

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck offshore in the central Aleutians early Thursday, setting off dozens of aftershocks — but no tsunami and no expected damage.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

You can name your own price to see the Tlingit opera in Juneau

The closing performance of Juneau's Tlingit opera is entirely pay-as-you-can at the door, with limited pay-as-you-can seats at four other performances.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read

Follows: Creators of first Tlingit opera take public questions Thursday in Juneau

Alaska got early frost and a heat advisory in the same week

Alaska's first week of September brought early frost to Anchorage and Yakutat and a heat advisory to Prince of Wales Island, where Friday hits 80 degrees.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

The Tlingit & Haida tribal government opposes opening the Tongass

Tlingit & Haida opposes lifting Tongass road limits. Native corporations once cut more than half the region's timber, then left the business entirely.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Tlingit & Haida sought $8.4 million for child care after the landslides and floods, and got $1.1 million

Tlingit & Haida received $1.15 million in federal child care recovery money for six Southeast Alaska communities, about one-seventh of the $8.4 million the tribe requested.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

West Tudor Road down a lane each way through Sunday for asphalt patching

West Tudor Road near Cambridge Way loses a left lane each way through Sunday for asphalt patching — the latest closure on a road with bigger safety problems.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kenai Council on Aging reviews 2026 goals at Sept. 10 work session

Kenai's Council on Aging Commission recommends the city adopt an emergency food plan to keep the senior center stocked for two weeks of meals if operations are disrupted.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Sitka Assembly to interview municipal administrator applicant Gerrie Cotter on Sept. 10

Sitka's Assembly will interview Gerrie Cotter for municipal administrator on Sept. 10, the sole remaining candidate after a months-long search that started over at least once.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Follows: Sitka's sole finalist for city administrator is gone, and the Assembly is starting over

BBNC Dillingham IT apprenticeship applications close Friday

BBNC is hiring one IT apprentice in Dillingham, applications close Friday, Sept. 4. The one-year role includes CompTIA certifications and requires BBNC or Choggiung shareholder status.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

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

Bristol Bay Native Corporation is taking pitches through Oct. 2 for its December leadership forum — a corporate-led gathering, and not the region's only one.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Denali's new bridge is finished, and buses still cannot cross it until 2027

Denali's Pretty Rocks bridge is finished, years later than promised. Buses still will not reach Wonder Lake or Kantishna until the 2027 season.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Follows: The bridge meant to reopen half of Denali is running behind, new permits suggest

Suit seeks Alaska Judicial Council records on judge screening

A conservative legal group sued the Alaska Judicial Council for the scoring sheets it has used to rank judicial candidates since 2020.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago3 min read

CDC placed $2 million with an Anchorage firm without competition

CDC awarded $2 million in one-year contracts to Anchorage-based Eagle Health Analytics for emerging infectious disease and Ebola response work, running through September 2027.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min read

Metlakatla wins federal money to protect the hydro plant its island runs on

Metlakatla, Alaska's only Native reserve, gets $166,000 to protect the aging hydro plant its island depends on — a power source strained as its lakes run low.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min read

Nome to host 2030 Inuit Circumpolar Council General Assembly

Nome will host the Inuit Circumpolar Council's 2030 General Assembly, drawing 400 delegates from Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia to vote on Arctic sovereignty and food security.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

GCI is buying the only fiber link connecting Alaska's Arctic coast to the state

GCI, Alaska's biggest telecom, is buying the only wired link between the Arctic coast and the rest of the state for $310 million, a route rivals depend on.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

Graphite Creek permit decision pushed to September 2027

The Army Corps of Engineers delayed the Graphite Creek mine permit to September 2027 and upgraded the review to a full environmental impact statement.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read