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Anchorage weighs $2.8M state payment, most of it for winter shelter
Anchorage cut $1 million in contracted surge shelter beds when alcohol tax revenue fell short. State money would put them back ahead of winter.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min read
Four of seven Kodiak Assembly seats are on the Oct. 6 ballot
Four of the seven Kodiak Island Borough Assembly seats are on the Oct. 6 ballot, all elected borough-wide. Early voting runs Sept. 21 to Oct. 5.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Anchorage candidates would need signatures to get on the city ballot
Anchorage candidates would need voter signatures to make the ballot. It would take 63 in one Assembly district and 162 in another about the same size.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Massachusetts firm seeks study permit for a 66-pod undersea data center in Cook Inlet
A Delaware company formed in January wants to put 66 data center pods and 350 tidal turbines on the floor of Cook Inlet. Comment closes Nov. 2.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Anchorage Assembly ordinance restores parking permit rule its planning commission voted 8-0 to cut
Anchorage's planning commission voted unanimously to drop a parking lot restriction. The Assembly sponsors put it back in and will take it up Oct. 20.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Kenai beautification panel floats $700,000 tennis and pickleball court rebuild
Rebuilding Kenai High's tennis courts into two tennis and four pickleball courts would run about $700,000, the parks director told a commission.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Cordova commission backs sealed proposals for Davis Avenue hillside lot
Cordova Planning Commission voted to recommend sealed bids for a 6,740-square-foot city lot above Davis Avenue, requiring 30 days of public notice if the City Council approves.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Parent tells Mat-Su officials bus cancellations fall to parents
A parent told Mat-Su officials that repeated bus cancellations are forcing families to arrange their own rides, calling it unacceptable after five years of a Durham contract.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Anchorage weighs who decides when cold-weather shelter opens
An Anchorage ordinance up Sept. 15 would let the health director decide when emergency shelter opens, replacing the current 45-degree trigger.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
A conservative group sues Alaska's judicial council for diversity records
A national conservative group founded by Stephen Miller is suing the Alaska Judicial Council for records on how it weighs diversity in picking judges.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min read
Anchorage company wins patent for adjustable pipeline support
Two Anchorage inventors have patented a pipeline support you can raise or lower with a hand crank — a simple fix for supports that shift as permafrost thaws.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Anchorage could shrink its minimum lot size by two-thirds under a pending ordinance
Anchorage could cut its minimum single-family lot to a third of current size and let buildings cover 70 percent of it. The hearing is Sept. 15.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
State tax office flagged seller of Anchorage cannabis concentrate license as non-compliant
Alaska flagged a marijuana license seller as non-compliant on taxes. Her sworn statement listed no debts. What the board did is not on the record.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Wells Fargo keeps shrinking in Alaska, where it's the only bank in six towns
Wells Fargo keeps closing Alaska branches — nine since 2019, the latest in Anchorage. In six Alaska towns it's the only bank, and could leave them with none.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min read
Seward state park advisory board takes public comment at Sept. 16 meeting
Seward State Park Citizen Advisory Board meets Sept. 16 to hear public comment on park management, in person or via Teams.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Moose hunter flown off upper Chistochina River after medical emergency
A moose hunter with a medical emergency on the remote upper Chistochina River was flown out by helicopter Monday and handed to waiting medics, troopers said.
by Alaska News2w ago1 min read
Bering Sea pollock companies are hiring at an Anchorage event
Companies that catch and process Bering Sea pollock are hiring at an Anchorage job event Oct. 29, for jobs that pay a share of the catch.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Homer's library is asking the state to cover part of its internet bill
Homer's library wants $5,130 from the state toward its internet bill. That is less than last year, for the pleasant reason that the bill went down.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min read
Troopers investigating death of a Kachemak Selo man found nothing suspicious
A family in Kachemak Selo found Mihey Reutov, 35, dead on Monday, and Alaska State Troopers said an early investigation found nothing suspicious.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Mat-Su moves to lease Port MacKenzie land to an antimony company
Mat-Su is moving to lease 42.78 acres of port land to an antimony company. The commission that recommended it published no minutes or vote count.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago3 min read
Anchorage wants city land sales weighed by housing, not price alone
Anchorage land sales now come with a written case for the housing they produce. The guidance is nonbinding, but it changes what the Assembly weighs.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min read
A state windfall would restore shelter capacity Anchorage cut this year
Anchorage cut $1 million in shelter surge capacity when alcohol-tax revenue fell short. An unexpected state payment would let the city restore it.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min read
Wasilla's legislative ask leads with $10 million aviation training center at city airport
Wasilla asks state and federal lawmakers for $10 million to build an aviation training center at the city airport, leading a capital priorities list the Planning Commission reviews Tuesday.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
Mat-Su weighs a council district for a group staff say does not meet the code
Mat-Su staff back giving landowners along Greater Oilwell Road a recognized borough voice, though the group asking for it doesn't meet the council definition.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Homer-based Republican group drops the Homer city election from its reporting
The Homer-based Republican district unit just dropped Homer's city election from the races it reports on. It kept the borough race the same day.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
A Soldotna council member's consulting firm earned up to $1 million last year
Soldotna pays Daniel Nelson up to $5,000 a year to sit on its city council. Governments paid his consulting firm up to $1 million last year.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
Tribal consortium takes ownership of Alaska Native Medical Center
The Indian Health Service transferred ownership of the Alaska Native Medical Center to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium on Aug. 24, 2026, opening access to uncapped federal lease payments while the legal authority for the conveyance remains undocumented.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min read
Fish and Wildlife is putting GPS collars on moose in the upper Tanana
Tetlin refuge would like a word with its moose. It is spending $94,542 on GPS collars to learn where they go and how well they are eating.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Anchorage clears a substation plat on quake-prone Port ground
Anchorage approved a plat for a new Chugach Electric substation at the Port on ground its own maps rate as highly likely to fail in an earthquake.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
The pipeline right-of-way comment window got another week
The public has until Sept. 17 to comment on whether the trans-Alaska pipeline keeps its federal right-of-way for 30 more years, after the Bureau of Land Management extended the deadline by a week.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min read
Antimony plant equipment lands at Port MacKenzie before its air permit clears
Nearly 500 tons of gear has landed at Port MacKenzie for a plant to produce antimony, a defense mineral the U.S. lacks — but its air permit isn't approved.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago3 min read
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 AlaskaNews3w ago3 min read
An Anchorage company will run the ATF's supply operation
An Anchorage company won $5.3 million to run the ATF's supply operation. Its federal small-business certification expires six weeks into the contract.
by Alaska News3w ago1 min read
An Anchorage firm staffs the State Department's internal watchdog
An Anchorage company owned by the Kodiak regional corporation holds a contract worth up to $75 million to staff the State Department's internal watchdog.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
A Cordova tribe's company will rebuild the Labor Department Great Hall
A tribe based in Cordova, a town you can reach only by boat or plane, will rebuild the Great Hall at the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago2 min read
Troopers arrest Wasilla motorcyclist on DUI and refusal charges after Palmer-Fishhook crash
A Wasilla man was arrested on DUI and refusal charges after a motorcycle crash on North Palmer-Fishhook Road late Saturday.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
The Coast Guard is repairing a fire-damaged barracks at Kodiak
Repairs begin Tuesday on a fire-damaged 1940s barracks at Coast Guard Base Kodiak. Nothing in the record says when the fire happened or who was displaced.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago1 min read
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 AlaskaNewsadded 3w ago2 min read
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.News3w ago1 min read
The Knik Tribe has $1 million to design youth mental health care
The Knik Tribe has nearly $1 million to design a mental health system for Alaska Native young people in the Mat-Su. The money cannot pay for treatment.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read