Anchorage

Tunneling into an old Alaska gold mine turned up veins nobody had mapped

Crews tunneling into a historic gold mine north of Anchorage hit two veins that were not on the company's map. One sample ran 12 ounces to the tonne.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Sep 2

Anchorage auditors flag a gap in Assembly travel approvals

Anchorage auditors found signed approval on all 38 Assembly trips but could document a second 2025 step on only one of 15. A broader review is now underway.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min readFrom Sep 1

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

Chugach Solutions gets $43,689 in FBI building maintenance orders

Chugach Solutions picked up $43,689 in no-bid orders to install fall protection and replace a generator breaker at the FBI's Washington office.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read

Alaska draft rule would end in-house marijuana testing by growers, manufacturers and stores

Alaska's marijuana regulator is drafting a rule to ban in-house testing by growers and manufacturers, forcing all products to third-party labs instead.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Fish and Wildlife bought its ninth no-bid track loader for $248,954

Fish and Wildlife has bought nine track loaders without competitive bids since August. The ninth cost $248,954, more than any of the first eight.

by Alaska News2mo ago1 min read

Kadiak takes a $4.45 million State Department IT contract

An Anchorage company owned by Koniag will run IT support for the State Department bureaus covering the Middle East and South Asia.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read

Federal grant will test a Yup'ik healing framework against homelessness

Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness won $450,000 to serve Alaska Native households facing homelessness through case management and traditional Yup'ik healing practices through August 2027.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

A housing-zoning fix has stalled for months before Anchorage's appeals board

A housing-zoning fix has stalled before Anchorage's appeals board since spring — set aside twice — even as the administration pushes housing as a priority.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago3 min readFrom Jun 11

Follows: Anchorage's planning director could approve bigger encroachments alone

USDA's Rural Housing Service awards $1.35 million cybersecurity contract to Anchorage's Koniag IT Systems

Kodiak's regional corporation has built a federal contracting arm holding well over $150 million in work, from immigration records to Pentagon cybersecurity.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read

Motorcyclist killed on N Post Road in Anchorage; Jeep driver fled scene, police say

A motorcyclist died Friday night on N Post Road in Anchorage after a Jeep hit him; the Jeep's driver fled in another vehicle and police are seeking witnesses.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Coast Guard extends Anchorage firm's contracts $2.2 million through January

Coast Guard added $2.24 million to two uncompeted contracts with Koniag Management Solutions, extending facilities work through January 2027.

by Alaska News2mo ago1 min read

NIH gives Anchorage's Olgoonik $5.1 million in three uncompeted contracts

NIH awarded Olgoonik General $5.1 million this month for maintenance at its Bethesda campus under a no-bid program for Alaska Native firms.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Coast Guard awards Anchorage firm $1.7 million amid 8(a) freeze

Anchorage-based Old Harbor Solutions, an Alaska Native Corporation-owned firm, won two Coast Guard contracts worth $1.71 million for administrative and logistics support through 2027.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read

Dahlstrom reverses course, will certify Taylor for the November ballot

Division of elections reversed decision and Treg Taylor is back on the ballot.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Follows: Dahlstrom will not certify Treg Taylor's nomination for governor

E-Rate payments send $335,276 to broadband in three Alaska towns

Keeping King Salmon connected took $302,400 in a single federal payment. The FCC is now reviewing whether to keep the program that paid for it.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anchorage paid to expand the crime center, then put off the rules

Anchorage funded a $598,998 crime center expansion the same night it postponed the public hearing on rules meant to govern that center.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Alaska put a price on crisis beds the Legislature created in 2022

Alaska proposed Medicaid rates for crisis mental health facilities: $1,833 a day for adults and $2,197 for adolescents, the highest on the state's chart.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Planners urged cutting the overlay's R-1 height break. The sponsors kept it.

Anchorage planning staff told the sponsors of a housing overlay to drop its special height rules for single-family zones. The sponsors kept them.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Alaska's missing Indigenous list drops to 355, with suspicious cases unchanged

Alaska's count of missing Alaska Native and American Indian people fell by eight. None of the drop came from the cases nobody can explain.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Anchorage's next mayor to earn about $183,000, a 26 percent raise

Anchorage's next mayor will make about $183,000, a 26 percent raise — though it won't take effect until whoever wins the April 2027 election.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read

Northrim's Oregon deal is on the record. The approvals are not.

Northrim's $167.3 million Oregon bank purchase is on the record, and none of the four regulatory approvals it needs has surfaced publicly.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

One donor has supplied two-fifths of what a progressive Alaska fund raised this year

One Anchorage physician has supplied two-fifths of a progressive independent expenditure fund's money this year. Alaska caps no such gift.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

TCC will hold a November summit on what villages told it this summer

Tanana Chiefs Conference will hold a November summit on priorities its chief gathered during summer visits to seven Interior villages.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

A fourplex would install no landscaping under this Anchorage ordinance

A builder putting four homes on an Anchorage lot would install no landscaped buffer under an ordinance up for public hearing Oct. 6.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage police force falls hardest on Alaska Native residents

A review found Anchorage police use force disproportionately on Alaska Native residents, more than comparable cities — and likely overstated what they've fixed.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago4 min read

Extending the Coastal Trail north may take a land deal, not an easement

Anchorage wants to extend the Coastal Trail north across Eklutna land. The corporation would rather sell or trade than grant an easement, citing trespassers.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage's planning director could approve bigger encroachments alone

Anchorage's planning director could approve setback encroachments three times larger than now allowed, without the public hearing a variance requires.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage weighs a variance for a 1998 setback encroachment

A house on Chandalar Drive in Anchorage has stood 1.3 feet inside its required setback since 1998, and the city is being asked to let it stay.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read