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Disabled vehicle blocks northbound Dalton Highway lane near Mile 86
A disabled vehicle blocked the Dalton Highway's northbound lane near Mile 86 Friday night, with icy conditions reported. Crews expected to clear it by Saturday morning, 7:14 am.
by Walter AlaskaNews1d ago2 min read
State scheduled Dalton Highway closures near Mile 7.5 Thursday night for a load recovery
DOT&PF plans intermittent closures on the Dalton Highway near Mile 7.5 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm Thursday for load recovery. Expect delays in both directions.
by Walter AlaskaNews2d ago1 min read
Magnitude 5.6 earthquake near Lake Minchumina is felt in Fairbanks and Wasilla
A magnitude 5.6 quake hit near Lake Minchumina early Thursday and was felt from Fairbanks to Wasilla. USGS gives a magnitude 4 aftershock 7% odds within a week.
by Walter AlaskaNews2d ago2 min read
Fish and Game closes Hodzana Hills caribou hunt as Dalton snowmachine access opens
Winter snowmachine use opens on Dalton corridor trails Nov. 1, so Fish and Game is closing the small Hodzana Hills caribou herd's hunt the night before.
by Bill AlaskaNews3d ago2 min read
Merrill Field planners propose King Air 200 as design aircraft for 20-year plan
Merrill Field's 20-year plan will be built around the King Air 200. Also learned: the first stop for many rural flyers landing there is Costco.
by Walter AlaskaNews3d ago2 min read
Draft study backs regional co-ops for rural Alaska tank farms, comments due Friday
A draft study says rural Alaska tank farms should team up in regional co-ops to save money. Comments are due Friday, so speak now or hold your diesel.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3d ago3 min read
Denali Borough fire chiefs to meet every other week on Cantwell winter coverage
Denali Borough fire chiefs will huddle every other week to keep Cantwell's fire and EMS going this winter while the borough chases federal rural health money.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3d ago1 min read
Gasoline pushes U.S. prices up as Alaska diesel runs 61% above a year ago
U.S. prices rose 0.6% in September, more than half of it from gas. In Alaska, the bigger number is diesel: $2.48 a gallon more than a year ago.
by Alaska News4d ago2 min read
National Weather Service extends dense fog advisory for Fairbanks area until 7 am Wednesday
National Weather Service extended its dense fog advisory for Fairbanks and nearby areas until 7 am Wednesday. Visibility may drop to a quarter mile, making travel hazardous.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4d ago1 min read
Three governor candidates lay out rural energy and subsistence plans at Tanana Chiefs forum
Three governor candidates pitched rural energy and subsistence fixes at a Tanana Chiefs forum. • Kreiss-Tomkins vowed to protect PCE funding and drop federal subsistence lawsuits. • Taylor pushed a constitutional amendment for state fish and game control. • Bronson proposed river roads like Fairbanks to Galena to cut costs.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4d ago2 min read
House District 36 candidates back trawling limits at Tanana Chiefs forum
Rep. Rebecca Schwanke and challenger Crystal Jones both called for limits on trawling at a Tanana Chiefs Conference forum, and laid out ways to cut rural costs.
by Maggie AlaskaNews5d ago1 min read
Weather service warns of icy spots on Fairbanks-area roads Tuesday morning
Weather service warns of icy roads across Fairbanks and Interior communities Tuesday morning as wet spots freeze.
by Maggie AlaskaNews5d ago1 min read
Fairbanks commission may send Assembly a report on SS Nenana restoration
Fairbanks' preservation commission may report to the Assembly on the SS Nenana's restoration. Its chair has raised concerns the record doesn't spell out.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago2 min read
State expects seismic retrofit of Tanana River Bridge at Big Delta to start in mid-October
Alaska is the most seismically active state, and DOT says earthquake work on the Big Delta bridge starts this month. Seven more bridges are in line.
by Maggie AlaskaNews6d ago1 min read
Murkowski joins bipartisan call for Trump to reverse decision allowing Russian diesel imports
Trump says Putin agreed to send diesel. Murkowski and six other senators say letting it in runs counter to a ban Congress passed 100-0 in 2022.
by Walter AlaskaNews6d ago3 min read
State proposes five snowmachine trails near Wiseman after Dalton corridor transfer
The state proposes five snowmachine trails near Wiseman, part of its promise after subsistence users lost their federal priority in the Dalton corridor.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Doyon takes applications to fill board seat Geri Simon left to lead the Doyon Foundation
Doyon is taking applications through Nov. 9 from voting shareholders who want the board seat Geri Simon left in September to lead the Doyon Foundation.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Advisory forecasting 4- to 6-foot water rise at Elim, Koyuk expires
A National Weather Service high surf advisory forecasting 4 to 6 foot water rise at Elim and Koyuk expired Saturday at 4 am after peaking Friday at high tide.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Troopers arrest Pitka's Point man, 27, on eight sexual abuse and assault counts
Alaska State Troopers arrested a 27-year-old Pitka's Point man Thursday on eight counts of sexual abuse of a minor and sexual assault following a report received Tuesday.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
FAA keeps plowing roads to Alaska navigation beacons as it retires others
The FAA pays local crews to plow roads to Alaska's radio navigation beacons each winter, even as it retires more than a dozen others in favor of GPS.
by Melinda Communities.News1w ago2 min read
Fairbanks logs wettest September since 1925 as Chena River hits late-season record
Fairbanks just had its rainiest September since 1925, and the Chena River hit a record high for so late in the year. No flooding, thanks to slow rain.
by Alaska News1w ago2 min read
Live Alaska local results: Fairbanks, Kodiak and Wasilla report first totals
Fairbanks Assembly Seat D is separated by 123 votes, Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly by 16 and Kodiak Island Borough Assembly by six.
by Alaska News1w ago11 min read
Alaska LNG asks DNR to convert conditional pipeline leases to full leases
Alaska LNG asked the state to convert two conditional pipeline leases into full leases, citing over $50 billion in project financing and support agreements from major energy companies.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago3 min read
Bering Sea Interior Tribal Commission tribes sign agreement forming a USDA conservation district
Tribes of the Bering Sea Interior Tribal Commission signed an agreement Oct. 1 forming a USDA tribal conservation district to set local conservation priorities.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Regulators fix math errors in AVEC power subsidy, raising credits in most villages
State regulators found math errors in AVEC's rural power credits. The fix raises the credit in 44 of 46 village power systems and lowers it in two.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago3 min read
Troopers say semi driver fell asleep before hitting car stopped on Parks Highway near Healy
A Massachusetts driver stopped partly in the lane for a photo on the Parks Highway near Healy. A semi driver troopers say fell asleep hit him. Both got cited.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
House passes water bill naming Alaska harbor, flood and water projects; Senate still has to act
The House passed a water bill naming Kodiak's harbor, Juneau's glacial floods and Sitka water money. None of it counts until the Senate agrees.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Aniak's Bush-Tell has drawn more than $12 million in federal support to serve river villages
An Aniak phone company has drawn more than $12 million in federal support to keep calls and internet running in villages along the Kuskokwim and Yukon.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago2 min read
Three Alaska tribal housing groups win $15.7 million in federal grants for 58 homes
Three Alaska tribal housing groups won $15.7 million in HUD's latest competitive round, enough for 58 homes in Haines, Galena and Anchorage.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Global refinery disruptions widened fuel margins in 2026, and rural Alaska's barge fuel cost more
Galena's utility paid 29% more per gallon for this year's barge fuel, and St. Paul paid about $7.55. Summer's dip in oil prices came after the fuel was bought.
by Cale Green3w ago4 min read
Alaska Supreme Court takes up Sitka assault where a woman owes $104,000 to the doctor who pleaded guilty to assaulting her
A Sitka woman's doctor pleaded guilty to assaulting her. A civil jury never heard that, found against her, and she now owes him and the city $104,307.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago3 min read
A federal grant funds Tlingit & Haida's plan to hear child protection cases
The Tlingit & Haida Tribal Court is preparing to open its own child protection cases, using authority Alaska courts recognized more than a decade ago.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago3 min read
Subsistence fishing reopens on the upper Yukon, village by village
Subsistence fishing reopens on the upper Yukon in stages from Sept. 26 to Oct. 6, timed so Canadian-bound fall chum pass each stretch of river first.
by Bill AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Tanana subsistence and personal use fishing goes 24 hours
Tanana River subsistence fishing opens to full gear around the clock Tuesday, after six straight years of restrictions on a fall chum run that came back.
by Bill AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Federal environmental review begins for the Arctic copper mine near Kobuk
The Army Corps is starting its environmental review of the Arctic copper mine near Kobuk, with a final decision targeted for September 2028.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Bering Strait homeowners waited 184 days for storm repair loans
Bering Strait homeowners waited 184 days for SBA storm-repair loans that neighbors got in nine. The state's request is dated April; the records don't say why.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago3 min read
Alaska school tests show early gains and a one-in-five participation gap
Alaska's younger students gained ground, but one in five enrolled students had no AK STAR score. Correspondence testing barriers explain part of the gap.
by Walter AlaskaNews4w ago3 min read
Troopers find missing hunter near Tanana after weather grounded search a day
Alaska Wildlife Troopers found a missing hunter near Tanana on Wednesday after weather grounded the search a day earlier. He declined medical treatment and returned to camp.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
House subcommittee hears testimony on conveying 21,578 Denali acres to Doyon
Doyon selected a sacred rock formation in Denali as its own in 1978. Forty-eight years later, Congress is still deciding whether to hand it over.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Three of 20 Alaska aviation accidents since July 19 were fatal
Twenty aircraft have crashed in Alaska in eight weeks. Three were fatal. The state's accident rate runs more than twice the national average.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read