Anchorage

Alaska wants to change how it measures edible pot strength — and some legal products may not pass

Alaska wants to change how it measures edible pot strength — and the new math could push products legal today over the limit, without the products changing.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Interior awards $8,360 for helicopter service to Tincan and Indian Pass snow sensors

Interior awarded $8,360 to Alpine Air Alaska to maintain two remote snow sensors that feed avalanche forecasts for Turnagain Pass and Indian Pass through October.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage would trade away land it bought five years ago for $2.35 million

Anchorage would trade away land it paid $2.35 million to buy in 2021, before its own study of the site is finished and over a state objection.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Alaska's only blood bank is critically short of O and AB blood; six centers are taking donors

Blood Bank of Alaska needs O and AB blood types urgently, with only 2 percent of Alaskans donating annually despite serving 21 hospitals statewide.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Alaska would change who can question the medical report in a workers' comp fight

Alaska is rewriting how injured workers' claims get fought: who can question the doctor who wrote the report, and how the lawyer gets paid.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Some Anchorage homes went a month without running water last winter

Some Anchorage homes went a month without running water last winter. Frozen lines hit triple the usual number, and thawing them is the customer's expense.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Aug 20

Anchorage board weighs dropping a shared-driveway rule for two Lake Otis lots

Anchorage Platting Board hears a request Wednesday to let two Lake Otis Parkway lots have separate driveways instead of sharing one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dunleavy vetoed a faculty seat on the board that governs the University of Alaska

Dunleavy vetoed a faculty seat on the University of Alaska's governing board, citing conflicts of interest. The board already seats a student.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

A statewide suicide prevention activity is open to any Alaska resident through Sept. 10

ANTHC is running a free statewide suicide prevention activity through Sept. 10 with an online scavenger hunt, candle lighting, and a survey with Amazon gift card drawings open to all Alaska residents.

by Alaska News2mo ago2 min read

Alaska's labor agency has management and a union teaching bargaining together

A city HR director and an IBEW business agent will teach Alaska public employers and unions how to bargain, together, at a state session this month.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

An Anchorage man will serve 20 years for abusing a 4-year-old relative

Judge Peterson sentenced Jose Dominguez Ballesteros to 20 years in prison Monday for sexually abusing a family member starting at age 4, with lifetime sex offender registration required.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

SSA awards Anchorage's Koniag IT Systems $2 million for print work in Durham and Baltimore

A Koniag subsidiary in Anchorage will print and mail Social Security cards for the next year, under two federal contracts worth about $2.06 million.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read

In 1997 Anchorage voters rejected automated camera enforcement. Its new surveillance system needed no vote.

Anchorage voters banned traffic cameras in 1997. A far more powerful police surveillance system just arrived with no vote — and the debate has been telling.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago4 min read

Alaska's governor race upended in a day: a disqualification, a last-minute filing, and a lone Democrat

Alaska's governor race flipped in a day: Treg Taylor was disqualified, his wife filed at the deadline, and it's now three Republicans versus one Democrat.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Atlas Air would get five more acres of cargo ramp in Anchorage

Atlas Air would get three more cargo parking pads at Anchorage's airport, a little over five acres of ramp, at a rent of $38,847.47 a month.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

ICE is paying an Anchorage company to wire the 11th floor of a building in Washington

ICE is paying an Anchorage company $31,049 to wire the 11th floor of a federal building in Washington, D.C.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage had no ALS ambulance available about 70 times last year

Anchorage had no advanced life support ambulance available about 70 times in 2024, and no basic life support unit more than 315 times.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage Assembly takes up a $599,000 crime center purchase and surveillance limits

A $599,000 video wall for Anchorage's crime center returns to the Assembly Tuesday, alongside an ordinance that would write surveillance limits into city code.

by Alaska News2mo ago2 min read

Haines woman seriously injured by bear on Mt. Riley Road

A Haines woman was seriously injured in a bear attack on Mt. Riley Road early Saturday, Aug. 29, after the animal may have been drawn by dumped food waste nearby.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Dahlstrom will not certify Treg Taylor's nomination for governor

Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom will not certify Treg Taylor's nomination for governor, after APOC found his financial disclosure was not timely.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

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

Anchorage property owners appealing their 2026 assessments face a backlog that could stretch to mid-November, with the Board of Equalization handling a record 1,953 appeals.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Follows: Anchorage's assessment appeal surge reaches hearings next week

Cook Inlet Housing Authority chief backs Anchorage housing code changes his projects use

Cook Inlet Housing Authority's chief backed Anchorage's housing code changes Tuesday, crediting them for enabling his organization's Nest project.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

Alaska seniors get free Summit on Aging seats, but must register in advance

Seniors 65+ and Alaskans with intellectual or developmental disabilities get free registration at the Oct. 15-17 Statewide Summit on Aging in Anchorage if they sign up in advance.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

An Anchorage firm maintains nine Florida federal buildings on a $25 million GSA deal

An Anchorage contractor won a $23,553 federal contract to fix a rusted floor and fire alarm at a Jacksonville courthouse, part of a nationwide backlog of $8.3 billion in delinquent repairs.

by Alaska News2mo ago1 min read

Right lane closes on E Tudor Road eastbound Monday for drainage work

The westbound Tudor lane closed since July reopens Monday. Savor it. A bigger dig near Lake Otis starts Sept. 12 and closes lanes in all directions.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Man shot and killed in East Anchorage, the third death investigation there since July

A man was shot and killed late Saturday in East Anchorage, the third death investigation in the area since July. Police say no one is being sought.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Marijuana board chair's own store violation goes before the board they chair Sept. 2

Marijuana board chair Bailey Stuart faces a violation notice on their own retail store at the meeting they chair Wednesday, raising questions about whether they will step aside.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

A grower denied renewal in June is still listed as active, owing $664,440

An Anchorage marijuana grower owes $664,440 in unpaid excise taxes and still appears active on state records months after the Marijuana Control Board denied its license renewal in December.

by Alaska Newsadded 2mo ago2 min read