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Homer weighs spending $6,000 to inform voters about a road-tax measure, near a line the law draws
Homer may spend $6,000 to inform voters about renewing its road-and-trail sales tax, though the ordinance's own title admits it "may influence" the vote.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
South Slope Drive owners learn Monday what the sewer will cost them
Homer owners on South Slope Drive find out Monday what they owe for sewer. Past city sewer assessments have run past $11,000 for a single parcel.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
An Anchorage supplier shrank to six employees, and now it stocks federal Alaska
The Anchorage company filling federal orders for pens and clipboards had six employees in mid-2022. It now holds GSA and Navy work worth tens of millions.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min read
Anchorage holds more property-appeal hearings, as hundreds of over-assessed homes get lower valuations
Anchorage holds six more property-appeal hearings next week, as about 660 over-assessed homes get lower valuations and the appeals board nearly doubles.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Chugach sees opportunity for its communities in the Coast Guard's Alaska buildup
Chugach, an Alaska Native corporation that contracts with the Coast Guard, is casting the service's Alaska buildup as an opportunity for its communities.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Kodiak Island Borough Assembly tightens absence rule in 6-1 vote
Kodiak Island Borough Assembly lowered the absence threshold to 25 percent of meetings to forfeit a seat, down from 50 percent, and now counts work sessions in that total.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min read
Coast Guard awards $143.4 million for 30 housing units and child care center at Kodiak ahead of two Arctic cutters
The Coast Guard is spending $143.4 million on 30 housing units and a child care center at Base Kodiak, ahead of two Arctic Security Cutters homeporting there.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min read
A group backing Begich for governor has spent nothing, with a website waiting for the general election
A new outside group backing Tom Begich for governor has spent nothing so far, its only financial trace a $1,116 debt for a website that wasn't even live yet.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage keeps blowing past overtime budgets stuck on a 2010 baseline
Anchorage's police, fire and transit overtime again ran over budget, largely because the budgeted amounts still rest on an unadjusted 2010 baseline.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago1 min read
Palmer jury convicts Robert Hawes on four felony sex abuse counts
A Palmer jury convicted Robert Hawes, 72, on four felony sex abuse counts involving a 4-year-old child in 2021. He faces sentencing November 25.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
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
If you pulled an Upper Cook Inlet dipnet permit, you have until Aug. 31 to file, even if you never fished
Pulled an Upper Cook Inlet dipnet permit? File your harvest report by Aug. 31, even if you never fished, or you lose personal-use fishing privileges next year.
by Bill 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
Silvers are slow in Resurrection Bay, but the best coho fishing is just outside it
Silvers are slow in Resurrection Bay with few coho past the weir, but the best coho fishing is just outside it toward Montague Island and Harris Bay.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Alaska managers open some salmon fisheries and close others as runs diverge
Alaska fishery managers opened some salmon fisheries and closed others the same week, each call turning on how the fish are running in that particular place.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
A Kenai man is sentenced to 60 years for sexually assaulting a child in his home
A Kenai man, Darold Greg Love, 67, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for sexually assaulting a child living in his home, with no eligibility for parole.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min read
A Wasilla seatbelt stop turned up meth, a stolen debit card and two warrants
A Wasilla seatbelt stop unspooled into a lot more: troopers reported meth, someone else's debit card, a false name and two warrants, one for stealing a car.
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
Troopers arrest Wasilla driver on DUI charge after KGB Road crash
A Wasilla driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after his truck hit a guardrail and semi-trailer on Knik-Goose Bay Road on August 20.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Kodiak rezone would raise Cliff Point lot minimums to five acres
Kodiak Island Borough Assembly opened a hearing on rezoning twenty Cliff Point lots to require five-acre minimum sizes, reducing how many homes can be built there.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Alaska State Fair plans $10 million Borealis Theatre rebuild
The Alaska State Fair is rebuilding its Borealis Theatre, growing the concert venue from 5,200 to 6,500 with a bigger stage, better sound and a steeper lawn.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage will decide whether two Eagle River properties can drop old development limits
Anchorage decides in September whether two Eagle River properties can drop decades-old limits, one to allow apartments, one to free up a business lot.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo 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
Three Cook Inlet gas storage plans pending for winter demand
Cook Inlet's gas problem isn't only supply, it's winter. Alaska is weighing three plans to bank gas underground and draw it down in the cold months.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Alaska tells BlueCrest to produce Cook Inlet gas by 2027 or give up the lease
Alaska ordered BlueCrest Energy to begin producing gas from its Cook Inlet lease by March 2027 or forfeit it, as the region's gas supply shrinks and the company has sat idle for years.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
A $400 million expansion of Bradley Lake hydro would power about 30,000 homes and cut Southcentral's gas use
A $400 million Bradley Lake hydro expansion would power about 30,000 homes and offset 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas a year, easing Southcentral's gas crunch.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
A $413 million cable would give Kenai and Anchorage a second power link
One transmission path links Kenai to Anchorage. A $413 million subsea cable would add a second, if AEA can raise the half that isn't federal.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
USDA proposes lifting roadless rule protections on Tongass and Chugach
USDA proposes ending the 2001 Roadless Rule on Alaska's Tongass and Chugach forests, opening 9.3 million acres to potential road building and logging under local forest plans. Comments due Sept. 21.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 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
Homer Electric members will be able to buy into shared solar starting in February
Homer Electric members can buy into shared solar or wind starting around mid-February. Subscribers will pay a monthly fee nobody has put a number on yet.
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
King salmon fishing is over for the year in the Upper Copper River drainages
King salmon fishing in the Upper Copper River drainages is done for 2026. Permit holders must report online by Aug. 31 even if they never fished.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Koniag shareholders get nine chances to question their corporation's leadership in person
Koniag shareholders get nine chances this month to question their leadership in person, from the Kodiak Archipelago to Seattle, Portland and Soldotna.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Record cold pushed Anchorage's gas demand to an all-time high, just as the supply is running out
Record cold drove Anchorage-area gas demand to a record as Cook Inlet supply shrinks, and the utility projects a 3 billion cubic foot shortfall next winter.
by Bill AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min read
Girdwood petitioner seeks stream setback variance for house and bridge
A Girdwood developer seeks permission to build a house and bridge closer to a salmon stream than borough code allows. The Zoning Board hears the case Oct. 8.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Wasilla staff float options to broaden the city sales tax, no vote yet
Wasilla staff are floating ways to widen the city sales tax, from renters to nonprofits to charitable gaming. It's a report Monday, not a vote.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read