Organizations

Alaska's state transportation agency, responsible for highways, airports, harbors, and the Alaska Marine Highway System. Publishes road projects, airport bids, and ferry schedules statewide.

Alaska state government's executive branch, headed by the Governor and 15 cabinet departments. Oversees education, public safety, transportation, health, commerce, and natural resource management for the 49th state.

Alaska's state capital, a unified home-rule city and borough on Gastineau Channel. Not reachable by road; accessible only by ferry, airplane, or ship. Home to the state legislature, the Governor's Office, and Mendenhall Glacier.

Alaska's bicameral legislature — 20-member Senate and 40-member House — meeting in Juneau from January to May each year. Sets the state budget, oil and gas policy, school funding, and the annual Permanent Fund Dividend calculation.

Manages Alaska's sport and commercial fisheries, hunting regulations, subsistence harvests, and wildlife conservation. Sets annual seasons, bag limits, and permit rules.

State agency managing Alaska's public lands, mining, oil and gas leasing, forestry, parks, and water rights. Covers millions of acres of state-owned wilderness.

NOAA forecast offices in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau. Issues warnings for marine weather, river breakup, avalanches, fire weather, and aviation across Alaska.

Federal agency managing Alaska's federal-waters fisheries (pollock, cod, halibut, crab) under the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Home of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.

Regulates Alaska's air and water quality, contaminated site cleanup, food safety, and oil spill prevention and response. Issues permits for discharges and air emissions statewide.

Anchorage 12-member elected legislative body, meeting weekly in the Loussac Library chambers. Passes ordinances, approves the municipal budget, and confirms mayoral appointments.

The upper chamber of the United States Congress — 100 senators, two per state, six-year terms. Confirms federal judges and senior executive appointments, ratifies treaties, and shares legislative authority with the House of Representatives. Alaska's senators are Lisa Murkowski (R) and Dan Sullivan (R).

Second-largest island in the United States and one of Alaska's most productive commercial fishing ports. Home to Kodiak bears, a Coast Guard base, and a processing fleet for salmon, pollock, and crab.

UAF — flagship research university in Fairbanks. Home of the Geophysical Institute (aurora, earthquakes, volcanoes), International Arctic Research Center, and College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.

Cook Inlet and North Slope operator — acquired BP's Alaska assets in 2020. Prudhoe Bay, Milne Point, Cook Inlet gas.

Highest court in Alaska's state judicial system; hears appeals from the Court of Appeals and Superior Court.

Federal agency managing 72 million acres of public land in Alaska — more than any other state. Oversees oil and gas leasing, mining claims, backcountry recreation, and wild horse herds.

Federal agency that funds research at University of Alaska Fairbanks on geohazards, climate science, and other topics. Alaska News covers NSF grants awarded.

Federal agency permitting wetlands fill, harbor dredging, and Section 404 Clean Water Act decisions for Alaska (Pebble Mine Section 404 permit lives here)

Federal agency under the Department of Homeland Security that coordinates disaster preparedness, response, and recovery — Stafford Act disaster declarations, Public Assistance grants for state and local infrastructure repair, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, Individual Assistance for households, Pre-Disaster Mitigation, BRIC (Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities), and the National Flood Insurance Program.

Federally-required MPO programming federal transportation funds for the Anchorage Bowl; joint Muni / DOT&PF / People Mover body.

State public corporation financing affordable housing across Alaska — single-family mortgages, multifamily lending, public housing, and weatherization. Self-funded from loan revenue.

Alaska's state-run ferry system connecting Southeast and Southcentral communities not served by roads. Runs the M/V Columbia, Kennicott, and other vessels between Bellingham, Juneau, and the Aleutian Chain.

Anchorage tribal nonprofit serving Alaska Native and American Indian residents of the Cook Inlet region. Workforce development, education, family wellness, and youth programs.

Natural gas utility serving Anchorage, the Kenai Peninsula, and Mat-Su — the primary residential gas provider for Southcentral Alaska.

Southernmost borough in Alaska, gateway to the Inside Passage. Known for rainforests, totem poles, commercial fishing, timber history, and a thriving cruise tourism industry.

Historic port city at the head of Resurrection Bay, terminus of the Alaska Railroad, home of the Alaska SeaLife Center, and launching point for Kenai Fjords National Park tours.

Home of the Alaska National Guard, Alaska State Defense Force, veterans services, and homeland security for the state. Operates Alaska's disaster response and emergency management.

Member-owned cooperative providing electricity to dozens of remote rural Alaska villages, largely off the road system and dependent on diesel and renewable microgrids.

Tlingit city on Chichagof Island, southeast Alaska; Hoonah City Council.

Alaska's statewide law enforcement, patrolling non-municipal Alaska from Ketchikan to Utqiagvik. Publishes the Daily Dispatch of statewide incidents. Division of the Alaska Department of Public Safety.