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Anchorage police seek help finding Allison Wilson, 41, missing since Thursday morning
Anchorage police are asking for help finding Allison Wilson, 41, who didn't return from her shift Thursday. She drives a maroon Subaru with front-end damage.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Anchorage keeps funding a $5 million median barrier on 5th Avenue
An Anchorage committee kept funding a $5 million median barrier on 5th Avenue, over an objection that the decade-old crash data doesn't justify it.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Kenai's airport expects to reopen its main runway around Sept. 21
Kenai's airport expects to move flights back onto its rebuilt main runway around Sept. 21, ending four months of landing planes on a taxiway.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Anchorage board sets seven property appeal hearings for next week
Anchorage owners filed a record 1,953 assessment appeals. The city had already found about 660 homes over-assessed before the hearings began.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Prince William Sound seine season ends Monday, after Friday's Cannery Creek opening
Prince William Sound seining closes for the year Monday night. The last openings reached hatchery waters that are usually off-limits to the fleet.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Southcentral is 3 Bcf short this winter, and producers told lawmakers the gas runs out in 2029
Southcentral Alaska faces a natural gas shortage by winter 2029 unless it imports liquefied natural gas or taps North Slope supplies, Hilcorp and Chugach told lawmakers Thursday.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Juneau driver, 33, dies in Hyer Road crash in Palmer
A Juneau driver died Thursday morning after his vehicle became airborne over the Hyer underpass in Palmer and struck a concrete support.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Prince William Sound anglers still limited to one king salmon a day
Anglers in most of Prince William Sound are held to one king salmon a day — half the usual — through Sept. 15, under a restriction over low king numbers.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Alaska Democrats ask Anchorage court to strike Tagle from November ballot
Alaska Democrats are back in court to remove Republican Jose Tagle from the ballot, after Dahlstrom certified him over an APOC finding against him.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago3 min read
Kodiak posts its election guide in Tagalog for the island's Filipino voters
Kodiak posted its Oct. 6 election guide in English and Tagalog — reflecting the island's Filipino community and a long effort to help those residents vote.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
An ordinance would tighten oversight of Anchorage's staffing overruns
Anchorage's government has run past its budgeted position count five years running. Three Assembly members want future overruns to need the mayor's sign-off.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Weather cancels Koniag townhalls in two villages, three weeks before the board vote
High winds canceled Koniag's first two 2026 shareholder townhalls in Akhiok and Old Harbor on Wednesday, replacing them with meal and sign-in gatherings as the proxy deadline approaches Sept. 30.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Southcentral's gas storage is two-thirds full with winter coming
Southcentral's gas storage is two thirds full heading into winter, and one field shuts down for maintenance starting Monday.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Troopers arrest Wasilla man on warrants totaling 18 felony counts
Alaska State Troopers arrested Wasilla resident William Paterson Jr. on Sept. 9 on two warrants totaling 18 felony counts of theft, burglary, and fraudulent access device use.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Wasilla weighs $569,600 for round-the-clock Fire/EMS dispatch at MatCom
Wasilla City Council will vote Monday on a $569,600 budget amendment to add round-the-clock dual dispatchers at MatCom, funded entirely by the Mat-Su Borough.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Wasilla weighs a plan to nearly double its airport runway
Wasilla wants to nearly double its airport runway in a $279 million, 20-year plan — a bid to serve bigger planes as the Mat-Su Valley keeps growing.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago3 min read
Alaska marijuana board revisits under-21 rules after Craig, Klawock checks failed
Alaska Marijuana Control Board will revisit rules keeping under-21s out of pot shops after compliance checks in Craig and Klawock found every store violated the ban.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Bronson calls for bottom trawling ban in state waters at Kodiak fisheries debate
Dave Bronson called for banning bottom trawling in Alaska's three-mile state waters, the only gubernatorial candidate to propose the measure at a Kodiak debate.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Gubernatorial candidates split on Board of Fisheries overhaul
Proposals range from expanding the board to nine or eleven members to stricter recusal rules and industry-conflict guidelines.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Three Alaska governor candidates agree on the problems, diverge on government's role
Three candidates for governor agreed Alaska faces serious problems but split on solutions at a Tuesday forum. The fourth, Bernadette Wilson, did not attend.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago7 min read
Kodiak's manager wants to sell lakeside land. Its planners say keep it.
Kodiak's borough manager applied to sell land near Beaver Lake. The borough's own planning staff recommend keeping it, calling the ground too wet to build.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
State clears three Anchorage officers in the fatal shooting of Emil McCord
State prosecutors cleared three Anchorage officers of criminal liability in the fatal shooting of Emil McCord, 112 days after it happened.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Anchorage marks Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month, now recognized in state law
Anchorage marks Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month for the third year, and the first under state law. Alaska's Hispanic history runs back to the canneries.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Anchorage Assembly takes up next year's budget priorities
The Anchorage Assembly takes up its budget priorities for the coming year Tuesday, along with two appointments to city commissions.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Cordova weighs an $870,000 electrified bear fence for its landfill
Cordova is spending as much as $870,000 to keep bears out of its landfill. A resident says the cattle guards in the design are made for cows.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Free medical, dental and vision care comes to Sullivan Arena Sept. 19-20
Free medical, dental and vision care is available to anyone at Anchorage's Sullivan Arena Sept. 19 and 20 — no ID, insurance or income required. Come early.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Homer transfers its ice house lease to Silver Bay Seafoods
The Homer City Council approved transferring the Fish Dock Road ice house lease from OBI Seafoods to Silver Bay Seafoods, catching up to an existing change.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min read
A Jeep rolled in Nikiski with a 14-year-old inside and the driver was arrested
A Jeep rolled onto its side in Nikiski with a 14-year-old inside. Troopers arrested the driver for DUI, the third such arrest in the area this summer.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Anchorage weighs paving and expanding the Basher Trailhead lot
Anchorage would pave and expand the 16-car Basher Trailhead lot to 52 spaces. Staff back it but warn it could draw more cars if parking isn't priced.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Alaska congenital syphilis cases hit a record in 2025
Alaska recorded 14 cases of congenital syphilis in 2025, the most ever, in a disease preventable with a test and a shot. Native infants were hit hardest.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Kodiak's silver salmon are stacking up at the Buskin, waiting for rain
Kodiak's silver salmon are piling up at the mouth of the Buskin River, waiting for rain to move upstream — with only about 500 counted so far this season.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Matanuska Electric posts its list of $451,000 in unclaimed capital credits
Matanuska Electric says more than $451,000 in capital credits sit unclaimed by current and former members, with one owed roughly $15,000.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min read
Three UAA hockey teams become the first teams in the Hall of Fame
Three early-1990s Seawolf hockey teams will be the first teams ever inducted into UAA's Hall of Fame, which has honored only individuals since 2001.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
An Anchorage housing ordinance does more than its title says
Anchorage's shop-house ordinance would also shrink the minimum commercial lot to about 2,700 square feet. The city says it outgrew its own title.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Anchorage Assembly has one meeting left before a transit safety deadline
Anchorage has one meeting left before a federal deadline to fix its transit safety plan. Assaults involving security staff rose by half last year.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
AT&T's parking lot at the Anchorage port could stay until 2041
AT&T's parking and storage yard at the Anchorage port could stay through 2041, though rent has only been set for the first five of those 15 years.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
A third of Anchorage's buses are past their federal life span
A third of Anchorage's full-size bus fleet is past its federal useful life. The Assembly votes Sept. 15 on replacing six of the 26 aging buses.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Kodiak is replacing hospital power switches nobody makes parts for anymore
Kodiak is replacing four 27-year-old power switches at the hospital that no longer have available parts, spending $151,155 on design work before construction begins.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Kenai Peninsula assembly president proposes rewrite of rules for filling assembly vacancies
Kenai Peninsula Assembly President Ryan Tunseth is proposing to rewrite the rules for filling vacant assembly seats, with a public hearing set for Oct. 20.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
Kenai Peninsula mayor's ordinance would regulate weather modification
The Kenai Peninsula Borough would regulate cloud seeding on its land and ask the state to consider banning weather modification.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read