Alaska

Water forecast 2 to 4 feet above normal high tide in Eastern Norton Sound

Water along Eastern Norton Sound should run 2 to 4 feet above normal high tide from late Thursday into Saturday, with beach erosion likely.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Forecasters flag Kwigillingok as water rises along the Kuskokwim Delta coast

Water along the Kuskokwim Delta coast is forecast 1 to 2 feet above normal high tide, with forecasters flagging Kwigillingok as most exposed to this front.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Follows: Kuskokwim Delta villages rebuilding from Halong face another storm

Southeast Alaska's king crab fishery will open, barely clearing the bar

Southeast Alaska's commercial red king crab season opens Nov. 1 with a 213,076-pound quota, the fourth opening since 2006 and the second in a row after years of closures.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Troopers search by air and ground for missing hunter near Halibut Cove

Alaska State Troopers are searching by air and ground near Halibut Cove for a solo hunter who stopped communicating with his wife Monday evening and has not been found.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage trails plan keeps Muldoon trail but drops JBER from its name

Anchorage kept the Muldoon trail in its revised plan but dropped JBER from the name after the military base cited security concerns during public comment.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage trails plan adds inland fallback route for stalled Kincaid-to-Potter Marsh trail

Anchorage planners added an inland route option to a stalled coastal trail between Kincaid Park and Potter Marsh, blocked since the 1990s by private land and wildlife refuge concerns.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

A $293 million plan would rebuild and narrow Anchorage's downtown couplet

A $293 million rebuild of Fifth and Sixth avenues would narrow the couplet that funnels traffic through downtown Anchorage. No one commented at the meeting.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Cordova weighs a model where you own the house but lease the land

You own the house and a trust owns the ground under it, and you pay $50 a month for the ground. Cordova is weighing whether that math works.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min readFrom Aug 25

Juneau's new flood evacuation maps were in use within a month

Juneau updated its Mendenhall Valley evacuation maps in July. By mid-August residents were being told to leave, as the river hit major flood stage again.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readFrom Jul 8

Bethel council to take up a holiday rescheduling rule, in a code section that does not set meeting dates

Bethel's city council could reschedule meetings that fall on holidays under an ordinance introduced Tuesday, Sept. 8.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage's wetlands plan describes a permit the city cannot issue

Anchorage's wetlands plan still assumes the city issues its own fill permits. It has not since 2021, and a patch goes to the Assembly Tuesday.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Unit 22C bull moose season closes 12 days early, after two days

Bull moose season in Unit 22C on the Seward Peninsula closes Sept. 2, twelve days early, after hunters are expected to fill the 30-bull quota in just two days.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Wasilla man arrested at Anchorage courthouse on sexual abuse warrant

A 59-year-old Wasilla man was arrested Sept. 1 on an outstanding warrant and faces multiple counts of second- and third-degree sexual abuse of a minor.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

GVEA's fuel charge drops 12.6%, reversing about a third of June's increase

GVEA's fuel charge dropped 12.6 percent Tuesday, cutting about $15 from monthly bills for Interior members, though the rate remains far above pre-summer levels after diesel prices spiked.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

None of Ketchikan's $1.65 million in landslide aid has been paid out

FEMA committed $1.65 million for Ketchikan's 2024 landslides. A year later none of it has been paid out, and the window to spend it closes Sept. 30.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Trust land near Control Lake would become a store, laundromat and fuel stop. Comments close Oct. 9.

Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office approved a negotiated sale of Control Lake land on Prince of Wales Island, skipping competitive bidding.

by Alaska News2mo ago2 min read

Alaska schools warned on parental consent for surveys and student records

Alaska schools could risk federal funding if they survey students on sensitive topics without written parental consent, or withhold records parents can see.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Alaska says school improvement grant reviews are delayed by staffing gaps

Federal money for Alaska's lowest-performing schools is stuck. The state office that reviews the applications is short-staffed, and deadlines have not moved.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage will weigh housing density, not just price, when it sells land

The Anchorage Assembly voted 11-0 to tell the city to weigh housing density and affordability, not just price, when it disposes of municipal land.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Strong chum run opens Tanana coho fishing and more gear this weekend

Fairbanks-area personal use fishers can now use gillnets and keep coho salmon starting Friday, Sept. 4, after the state projects a strong fall chum run above target escapement.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Follows: Fairbanks's chum salmon fishery reopens on the Tanana on Friday

Southeast seiners get one 15-hour opening, in Sitka Sound

Southeast seiners get one 15-hour opening in Sitka Sound this week and nothing else. The fleet has thinned to 75 boats from 121 a week earlier.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Chugachmiut's Sugt'stun language game gets new gameplay footage

Nunaka means my village in Sugt'stun. It is also a free game teaching the language to children in a region where fluent speakers are dwindling.

by Alaska News2mo ago2 min read

More than 200 turn out in Fairbanks to question Alaska's governor candidates

More than 200 people turned out in Fairbanks to grill Alaska's governor candidates at a nonpartisan Native Vote mixer ahead of the primary vote.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read

A judge let Alaska start 2.8 miles of the King Cove road with the land swap vacated

A judge will not stop Alaska from starting 2.8 miles of the King Cove road, even though the land swap for the full route has been thrown out.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Follows: Judge vacates 490-acre Izembek land swap, reopening the fight over the King Cove road

Kenai Elks Lodge RV spaces get a city permit after years without one

Kenai Planning and Zoning Commission approved a conditional use permit for six RV spaces at the Elks Lodge that operated without one for years.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read

Unalaska raises the audit threshold for its nonprofit grant recipients

Unalaska has raised the audit threshold for nonprofit grantees to $40,000, after one grantee said audit costs ate roughly 13 percent of its city award.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

Mat-Su explores building the troopers a new home and leasing it back

Mat-Su is exploring building troopers a $13 million facility and leasing it back. Troopers now work from six buildings never designed for police work.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Motorcyclist critically injured in Kalifornsky Beach Road crash near Kasilof

A motorcyclist struck a turning pickup truck on Kalifornsky Beach Road near Kasilof on Monday and was flown to Seattle with life-threatening injuries.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kodiak Assembly takes up its vacancy rewrite Thursday, with the public hearing Sept. 17

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will introduce Thursday an ordinance that would start the clock for filling vacant seats the day a resignation is accepted and allow electronic applications.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Districts learned about $115 million after school had already started

Alaska school districts learned they were getting $115 million the day after school started, because the money depended on oil revenue counted Aug. 31.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage school district proposes splitting $32 million in one-time state money

Anchorage schools will split $32 million in one-time state money, spending more than half this year and saving the rest to shrink a $40 million deficit expected next summer.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Follows: Anchorage schools will open a new listening effort with a $42 million shortfall

Anchorage band teacher tells school board he now teaches 330 students a day

Anchorage band teacher Dan Whitfield teaches 330 students daily after the district cut a part-time director position, leaving classes of 45 to 83 students with no jazz band or extra help.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Unalaska is paying $800,000 to keep its emergency room open around the clock

Unalaska City Council adopted new grant guidelines on Aug. 25, but the exact changes remain unclear because city records do not include the full resolution text.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read

Norton Sound summer crab harvest reaches 111% of quota

Norton Sound's summer king crab fishery landed $3.5 million worth of unusually big crab this year, even as the overall harvest limit fell 65 percent from 2025.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Fifteen Anchorage Assembly members will have their spending accounts examined in a 9-2 vote

Fifteen Anchorage Assembly members will have their $24,000 spending accounts examined. Nobody will be required to answer the findings in writing.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

North Slope Borough Assembly raises lot density to four homes in zoning code rewrite

North Slope Borough Assembly voted 9-0 to allow four homes per lot instead of two, aiming to address a shortage of 637 housing units across the region.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Two candidates file on the last day for Kenai Peninsula Borough offices

Two more candidates filed on the last day for Kenai Peninsula Borough offices, including one seeking an Assembly seat that has been sitting vacant.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage's surplus school buildings could bring in money, the district says

Anchorage school officials say surplus buildings could generate revenue, among them Campbell STEM, closed in February and the subject of a dismissed lawsuit.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Necker Bay's goat zone closes after two billies fill the quota

Two billies filled the quota and closed Necker Bay's mountain goat zone for the season, the second Baranof Island zone to shut this year.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Alaska joins a suit accusing Amazon of setting the price its ad auctions were meant to discover

Amazon promised advertisers they would pay only enough to beat the runner-up bidder. Regulators say Amazon quietly made itself the runner-up.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read