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Anchorage schools will open a new listening effort with a $42 million shortfall
Anchorage School District is launching a listening effort, opening with the $42 million shortfall it projects for 2028. Past rounds drew complaints.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Catch a pike in an Anchorage lake and you have to kill it
Catch a northern pike in an Anchorage lake and you have to kill it. They are invasive south of the Alaska Range and they eat salmon and trout.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Alaska students will spend the year researching the veterans buried at Fort Richardson
Alaska students will spend the year researching the veterans buried at Fort Richardson National Cemetery, building a campus memorial and a walking tour.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago2 min read
Ordinance would make police ask before buying surveillance tech
Anchorage police would need Assembly approval to buy surveillance technology, and the city could not join outside data-sharing networks, under a new ordinance.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
There's a narrow window to ask Alaska's fish board to take up new topics
A narrow window closes Aug. 28 to ask Alaska's fish board to take up new topics, but the bar is high: it accepted just two of nine such requests last year.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage opens contract talks with one of its unions
Anchorage has opened contract talks with the Teamsters union representing some city workers, whose current deal, with 3.3% annual raises, expires at year's end.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage may move a national bike route off its highways and onto the coastal trails
Anchorage may reroute a national bike route off its highways onto the Coastal and Ship Creek trails, part of a push to move cyclists onto lower-stress paths.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Bering Straits firm wins environmental work at four Air Force bases
An Anchorage firm owned by Norton Sound shareholders will run environmental compliance at four Air Force bases, two of them nuclear-mission installations.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago2 min read
An Anchorage marijuana grower has to pay its back taxes before it can keep growing
An Anchorage marijuana grower owes the city about $12,761 in back taxes — and until it pays and passes an inspection, it can't fully renew its grow license.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
NOAA is still testing groundwater in the Pribilofs, decades after it left
NOAA is paying $186,644 to keep sampling groundwater in the Pribilofs, cleanup left over from 116 years of federal control of the fur seal harvest.
by Alaska News1mo ago2 min read
Tatitlek Management Services wins $2.8 million State Department maintenance order
Tatitlek Management Services won a $2.8 million State Department maintenance contract running through August 2027.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage approves a Muldoon Road marijuana store, over a dispute about how close it sits to a playground
Anchorage approved a Muldoon Road marijuana store 8-3, over objections about how close it sits to a playground and whether a stricter state buffer applies.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A Caterpillar dealer wants to fill nearly 20 acres of south Anchorage wetlands to build a new store
A Caterpillar dealer wants to fill nearly 20 acres of south Anchorage wetlands for a store, proposing no mitigation.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
All-ability play center opens in Midtown Anchorage, partly with marijuana tax money
An outdoor play center built for children with disabilities has opened in Midtown Anchorage. The ribbon-cutting is Wednesday evening, with open play after.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Anchorage will pay to steer people toward treatment instead of jail, using opioid-settlement money
Anchorage's Assembly voted 11-0 to pay True North Recovery about $398,000 to steer people toward treatment instead of jail, using opioid-settlement money.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage wants to buy three new garbage trucks for about $1.47 million
Anchorage's trash utility wants three new garbage trucks for about $1.47 million, and a bulk-purchasing deal shaved roughly $282,000 off the sticker price.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage approves $40,000 to update Merrill Field's airport layout plan
Anchorage approved $40,000, almost all of it federal, to update Merrill Field's airport layout plan after new flight procedures changed what it must show.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A Hillside road area may spend far more than planned after erosion damage
A small Hillside neighborhood that maintains its own roads may spend nearly $99,000 this year — up from about $21,000 — after ice and spring runoff caused heavy road erosion.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A Sitka Street railroad crossing rebuild will cost Anchorage $91,000 more than agreed
Anchorage's Sitka Street railroad crossing rebuild will cost about $91,000 more than agreed after high bids — a tab that falls on nearby property owners.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A second person has been hurt in an Anchorage otter attack in three weeks
A second Anchorage resident in three weeks has been hurt by a river otter, and Fish and Game is telling paddleboarders and dog walkers to carry bear spray.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage firm has held FBI maintenance contract without competition since 2022
An Anchorage company owned by an Alaska Native corporation has kept the FBI's Washington Field Office running since 2022. This month: drains and roof hatches.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage Planning and Zoning bumped its entire August docket to September
Every land-use case on the Planning and Zoning Commission's August docket got bumped to September, a month's delay for anyone waiting on a rezoning or permit.
by Alaska News1mo ago1 min read
A routine Anchorage roads vote this week would also fund cameras at 82 more intersections
A routine Anchorage roads-money vote this week also quietly funds 82 more intersection cameras, in the middle of a public fight over police surveillance.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago4 min read
Anchorage will ship contaminated concrete to Oregon after the state tightened disposal rules, adding $850,000
Anchorage's school board approved $850,000 to ship contaminated school concrete to Oregon after the state tightened its rules on disposing of banned PCBs.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
The Anchorage School Board pledges no more closures next year, but one member says the last three were never explained
The Anchorage School Board pledged no closures next year as an olive branch to a grieving community, though one member says the last three went unexplained.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Anchorage School District adopts a single English curriculum for grades 6 through 10
Anchorage adopted one English curriculum for grades 6-10 on a 6-1 vote. The selection committee itself split 6-5, and one board member questioned the process.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Anchorage is weighing a trade of land it just bought for $2.35 million for four downtown parking lots
Anchorage is weighing a trade of land it just bought for $2.35 million for four downtown parking lots, over a state objection and around competitive bidding.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min read
ENSTAR seeks a Southcentral gas rate hike as two landlords move to dismiss the case
ENSTAR wants to raise Southcentral gas bills by about $9 a month, and two landlords are moving to get the rate case thrown out before its September hearing.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
First Election Day Tapes from two statistically significant Anchorage precincts put Kreiss-Tomkins and Begich ahead of the field
All of our analysis these were the precinct that most closely aligned with statewide results, so Alaska news went out to get that information. This is not the statewide results.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Alaska regulators may open the grid to far more home and community solar
Alaska regulators may raise the rooftop and community solar limit from 1.5% to 20% of a utility's demand, opening the grid to far more customer-owned power.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Northrim to buy Oregon bank, its first branches outside Alaska
Anchorage's Northrim Bank is expanding outside Alaska for the first time, buying an Oregon bank for about $167 million and 11 new branches.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min read
An Anchorage man will serve 30 years for sexually abusing children he babysat
An Anchorage man will serve 30 years in prison for sexually abusing multiple children under 13 whom he babysat, and must register as a sex offender for life.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage jury finds man guilty but mentally ill in 2015 stabbing of his parents
A jury found Martin Victor IV guilty but mentally ill in the 2015 stabbing of both his parents. He cannot be paroled until treatment is complete.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Anchorage man arrested on 18 perjury and sex offender registry counts
An Anchorage man, Ronnie Wieber, 52, is held without bail on 18 counts alleging he failed to register as a sex offender and lied on his registration forms.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage Assembly to mark Women's Equality Day tonight
For the first time, the Alaska House is majority woman, with 21 of 40 seats, a milestone an Anchorage resolution marks tonight on Women's Equality Day.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
DOT says cameras don't read plates; vendor policy allows video storage
Alaska says new cameras in Palmer, Wasilla and Anchorage count people and cars, not plates — but the vendor's policy sets no limit on storing video.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Railbelt ratepayers will repay up to $100M for a Bradley Lake expansion built around federal tax credits
Railbelt electric customers will repay up to $100M to expand the Bradley Lake hydro plant, its dam sized to chase up to $200M in federal tax credits.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Downtown Anchorage owners face $1.15 million in assessments for services the city doesn't cover
Downtown Anchorage property owners will pay about $1.15 million this year for their own snow removal, cleaning and security. Objections are heard Sept. 15.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Three Hillside road districts are dipping into savings as maintenance costs outrun their funding
Three self-funded Hillside road districts are drawing $145,000 from their own savings for road maintenance, as costs outrun what they collect in taxes.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage shifts $3.46 million from Denali Street to a Fairview pedestrian boulevard
Anchorage dropped a Denali Street walking project and moved $3.46 million to Fairview, where Hyder Street would become a pedestrian boulevard.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min read