State of Alaska

Denali Borough needs 150 more housing opportunities, assessment says

Denali Borough counts 1,301 homes and only 565 are lived in year-round. Employers say they still need at least 150 more units on top of that.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Governor candidates split over how to close Southcentral gas gap

All four candidates want more Cook Inlet gas. They differ over lease enforcement, production incentives, tax stability and power diversification.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago4 min read

Follows: Southcentral is 3 Bcf short this winter, and producers told lawmakers the gas runs out in 2029

Alaska Power Company asks to waive charges for customers cut off by disasters

Alaska Power Company wants to stop charging people to reconnect after a disaster. Its customers pay about twice what Anchorage pays for power.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Troopers seek driver of silver pickup in Fairbanks Turtle Club hit-and-run

A driver hit a parked rental at the Turtle Club and left. Troopers have surveillance video of a silver Chevy pickup and are working to find the driver.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 18

Alaska will spend up to $250,000 studying a ferry terminal in Hyder

Alaska wants to study a ferry terminal for a town of 41 people. The reason is Canada: Hyder's road runs south through B.C., and Prince Rupert may not last.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 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 AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min read

Fishery managers will meet on trawl seafloor contact, with no power to recommend

The Board of Fisheries took 51 seconds on three trawl proposals. Its follow-up meeting can't recommend anything and won't take testimony by phone.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min readFrom Mar 20

Follows: Board of Fish Defers Trawl Gear Restrictions, Opts for Federal Coordination

Alaska has five weeks to commit $33 million in federal rural health money

Alaska has about $33 million in federal rural health money left to hand out, and five weeks to do it. There are no extensions, the feds say.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Alaska will score rural health grant applications on cost-effectiveness

Alaska will score rural health grant applications on cost for the first time, and will post the final rules halfway through the window to apply.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Follows: Alaska streamlines the fall round of its $272 million rural health fund

Troopers arrest Nikiski man on felony DUI charge after rollover on Nikiski Avenue

Alaska State Troopers arrested a Nikiski man on felony DUI after his pickup rolled on Nikiski Avenue and he fled, tracking him via electronic monitoring for pending domestic violence charges.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Payless would pay more than $500,000 over document fees under proposed settlement

More than 5,000 Alaskans paid a $499 fee that was not in the online price. They are getting $100 back, and the state says that is on purpose.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Palmer's plan to test whether its two main wells can produce more clears state review

Palmer's plan to study and possibly expand Wells 4 and 5, which supply 90 percent of the city's water, cleared state environmental review. The city has requested a $1.5 million state loan for it.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Cook Inlet gas storage at 69.5% as winter nears, with one field shut in for maintenance

Southcentral's gas storage fields are still filling and sending nothing out, at 69.5 percent full with winter coming and Enstar 3 Bcf short.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Follows: Southcentral's gas storage is two-thirds full with winter coming

Man dies entrapped in heavy equipment on Goldridge Drive in Fairbanks

A man died after becoming entrapped in heavy equipment on Goldridge Drive in Fairbanks, Alaska State Troopers said.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

The Alaska Court System awarded a $5.25 million contract to expand the Palmer Courthouse

The Legislature gave Palmer a fifth superior court judge this summer. The courthouse did not have room for the four judges it already had.

by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min read

Knik Tribe awarded $199,482 for Palmer fingerprinting site and mobile units

Fostering a child in Mat-Su can mean a long drive to get fingerprinted. Federal money is buying the Knik Tribe a station and two portable units.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Alaska may stop requiring liquor license applicants to buy newspaper ads as required public notice

Alaska liquor license applicants have to buy three weeks of newspaper or radio advertising. A draft rule would end that requirement entirely.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 1

Wasilla commissioner asks if city should pause commercial development

A Wasilla commissioner floated halting commercial development over road funding. The chair noted commerce is what pays the city's share of road projects.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Follows: Wasilla's road plan expired on a population forecast 38 percent too high

Hiker injured by bear on Jones Point Trail in Haines

A hiker attacked by a bear on the Jones Point Trail got herself out. It is the second bear attack in Haines in under a month, and both bears are loose.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

A teen moose hunter was flown to a hospital after a tree stand fall near Fairbanks

A teenage moose hunter fell from a tree stand southeast of Fairbanks and was flown out by trooper helicopter along with his father. Injuries weren't described.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

The King Cove road is under construction, but the refuge corridor is still blocked

Bulldozers are on the first 2.8 miles of the King Cove road. The 10.5 miles through the refuge that would finish it are still blocked by a judge.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readFrom Sep 16

The Supreme Court will rule on Dunleavy's agriculture department after he's gone

The Supreme Court will decide after the election whether Dunleavy could create an agriculture department by order. He'll be gone by the time it matters.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Alaska takes final 2026 public input Wednesday on child care grant rules

Alaska's child care office wraps up its year of public sessions Wednesday with one on the grant program that pays licensed providers.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

An outside group has spent $3.77 million on Alaska's Senate race

Americans for Prosperity Action has put $3.77 million into the Alaska Senate race. More than half of it landed in just the last three weeks.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

A police drone searched south Anchorage for a brown bear before dawn

Anchorage police flew a drone over a south Anchorage neighborhood before dawn looking for a brown bear. Whether they found it is not public.

by Alaska News1mo ago1 min read

Left lane closed on O'Malley Road northbound until 4 p.m. Tuesday

One northbound lane of O'Malley Road is closed until 4 pm Tuesday for guardrail and fence repair. The road itself stays open the whole time.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Alaska lifts 500-day hiring and regulation freeze, no reason given

Alaska's 500-day freeze on state hiring, travel and new regulations is over. The order ending it runs four sentences and gives no reason at all.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

One black rockfish a day in Kodiak and Afognak waters

Kodiak anglers can keep five rockfish a day but only one black and one yelloweye. Fish deeper and off the rock piles to fill the rest of the bag.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Three Homer Electric generators failed at once, and hydro covered the gap

Three of Homer Electric's generators failed at once in August. It bought hydro to cover, from a dam whose lines cannot carry its full output.

by Alaska News1mo ago2 min read

Spann sues state, governor and PFD director in Anchorage court

The creator of a 37,858-signature PFD petition has sued the state, representing himself. What the lawsuit is actually about is not yet known.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Homer's tsunami evacuation route is being raised and widened

The road Homer would use to get people off the Spit ahead of a tsunami is being raised and widened, with $1.17 million obligated toward it so far.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 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 AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Follows: Subsistence salmon fishing reopens on the Tanana and Yukon after closures

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 AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Follows: Strong chum run opens Tanana coho fishing and more gear this weekend

Palmer pilot and Michigan passenger killed in eastern Alaska plane crash

Two people died when a Piper Super Cub went down in eastern Alaska on Sept. 17, two days after a separate crash near Aniak killed two men.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 17

AIDEA's board takes six major projects into executive session in Kotzebue

AIDEA's board meets in Kotzebue with Ambler, Red Dog, ANWR and West Susitna on the closed agenda — listed by name, with nothing said about what's up.

by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago2 min read

Troopers cite a Wasilla hunter over evidence of sex missing from his moose

A Wasilla hunter was cited near Eureka after troopers found his moose no longer had evidence of sex attached, a detail that turns a legal animal into a charge.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 4

Goat hunt RG249 north of Valdez Arm closes

Goat hunting north of Valdez Arm closes Tuesday night, four months early. Hunters have reported five of the seven goat points allowed this season.

by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Peltola leads the poll. Sullivan leads the voters most likely to show up.

A bipartisan poll has Peltola ahead of Sullivan 53-47 after ranked choice, but the older voters most likely to actually turn out favor him 54-46.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min read

Flags fly at half-staff Tuesday for former Ketchikan Rep. Cheri Davis

Flags fly at half-staff Tuesday for Cheri Davis, who spent a decade on the Ketchikan School Board before she represented the town in Juneau.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

A new poll has Kreiss-Tomkins ahead in the first round and the last

A bipartisan AARP poll has Kreiss-Tomkins at 40 percent and winning a ranked-choice simulation 55-45, but a quarter of voters ranked neither finalist.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read