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“This administration has done more to save, protect and expand coal in our country than any administration perhaps ever.”President Trump Makes an Announcement on Beautiful, Clean Coal · Jun 4, 2026
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“You cannot go straight to community care as a veteran. That's just false. You can't just— I can't tomorrow just decide to go to community care.”Senate Veterans' Affairs (Sullivan): Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 and 2028 advance appropriations requests for the Department of Veterans Affairs. · May 20, 2026
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“more than $8 billion of the $10.9 billion increase for healthcare services in FY '27 is for community care. The difference is even more significant in the department's FY28 advance request, with the VA asking for a $17 billion increase in community care and near stagnant levels for direct care.”Senate Veterans' Affairs (Sullivan): Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 and 2028 advance appropriations requests for the Department of Veterans Affairs. · May 20, 2026
EPA proposes $5,859 UniSea settlement over Dutch Harbor stormwater
Public comment on a proposed $5,859 Clean Water Act penalty against UniSea's Dutch Harbor plant closes Aug. 19. The same facility paid $1,909,375 in federal and state penalties in 2011 over ammonia and seafood waste discharges.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Ambler district copper mine nears its first public comment period
The Arctic copper project near Kobuk targets a September scoping period, its first public comment window, under the FAST-41 federal permitting process.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago3 min readAI
The fate of the EPA veto blocking Pebble Mine is now in a federal judge's hands
A federal judge is weighing whether the EPA's veto blocking the Pebble Mine survives, in a Bristol Bay salmon fight with Alaska Native parties on both sides.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min readAI
Rain is coming to the Interior, and the small creeks will rise — but the big rivers are low enough to take it
NWS Fairbanks issued a hydrologic outlook Monday for up to 2 inches of rain that could cause significant rises in small streams feeding the Koyukuk and Middle Yukon rivers. Mainstem rivers are low, so forecasters see no flood concern. The outlook runs through 4 p.m. Tuesday.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Yentna River passes flood stage near Lake Creek with water expected in lodge cabins
The Yentna River near Lake Creek crossed its 20.5-foot flood stage Monday afternoon and passed the crest NWS Anchorage had forecast for Tuesday morning. Willow Creek has been revised below flood stage, and the Skwentna above action stage.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Level 3 GO evacuations ordered north of the Alaska Highway as the Mukluk Fire spreads near Tok
A fire reported in a Tok backyard shortly before noon Monday grew to about 20 acres in roughly two hours, forcing Level 3 GO evacuations north of the Alaska Highway. State notices describe two different evacuation stretches, and a downed powerline is arcing near the fire.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
An Iñupiaq village corporation from Wainwright is plugging orphaned wells in Wyoming
The Bureau of Land Management awarded $209,974 to Anchorage-based Olgoonik Construction Services for the Lake Townsend Reclamation, work scheduled from Sept. 1 through Nov. 30, 2026. The posting gives no further scope detail.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
A $3.73 million contract will fix water intrusion at the Anchorage VA
The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a $3,730,000 contract to Palmer-based Red Point Construction, LLC to repair the Building 100 envelope moisture barrier at the Anchorage VA Medical Center, with work running from September 15, 2026 through September 14, 2027.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min readAI
Fall chum and coho fishing is closed across the Tanana drainage
Fall chum and coho harvest closed across the Tanana River drainage at 12:01 a.m. Saturday for all users, running through Dec. 31, even as river-wide chum counts ran above median. Managers call it precautionary because Tanana-bound stock strength is still unknown.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Willow Creek forecast to reach minor flood stage Tuesday under Susitna Valley flood watch
NWS Anchorage posted a flood watch for the Western, Southern and Central Susitna Valley from 7 p.m. Sunday through 6 p.m. Wednesday. Willow Creek at the Parks Highway is forecast to cross minor flood stage Tuesday morning and peak at 10.29 feet that afternoon.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
A floatplane went down in the heart of Katmai's bear country, and crews got it out before it could foul the salmon
A floatplane crashed near Moraine Creek in Katmai National Park, a premier brown bear and salmon area, but crews removed the wreckage and contained the fuel, with no injuries reported
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min readAI
Gusts to 65 mph on the Anchorage Hillside and in Eagle River through tonight
The National Weather Service in Anchorage forecasts southeast gusts of 55 to 65 mph on the Anchorage Hillside and in Eagle River, peaking Sunday evening. The advisory runs to 1 a.m. Monday and warns of possible power outages and difficult driving.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Upper Koyukuk and Innoko villages can keep every salmon again starting Monday
Starting 8 a.m. Monday, subsistence fishers in the Koyukuk and Innoko drainages can use 6-inch gillnets around the clock and keep everything they catch, while the Yukon mainstem stays closed to protect Canadian-bound fall chum.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Heat advisory warns of 80 degrees near Umiat Sunday afternoon
NWS Fairbanks has a heat advisory in effect from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday for the Western and Central Arctic Plains, with highs near 80 degrees near Umiat and instructions to hydrate and check on elderly neighbors. Forecasters say a trough ends the heat Monday.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Hoonah and Ketchikan dock projects renew marine mammal permits without breaking ground
NOAA Fisheries renewed marine mammal permits for Hoonah's cargo dock and Ketchikan's ferry berths through August 2027. Neither project has started construction.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Heat advisory covers Noatak, Kobuk and Seward Peninsula zones until 8 p.m. Saturday
A heat advisory for the Noatak Valley, Lower Kobuk Valley and two Seward Peninsula zones runs from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, with highs of 75 to 80 forecast. It is the third Arctic heat advisory in four days, and its window was widened twice.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Dalton corridor suit is not over: groups appeal, and 700,000 acres remain in dispute
Ten groups are appealing a ruling on Alaska's transfer of Dalton Highway corridor land, as the state cites its statehood entitlement and tribes warn of lost subsistence rights.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Trump takes aim at Alaska's U.S. Senate Primary Election
President Donald Trump posted Friday on Truth Social endorsing incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan and warning Alaskans not to confuse him with Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. of Petersburg. Both are certified Republican candidates on the August 18 primary ballot.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min readAI
Juneau lifts its Suicide Basin flood evacuation
An Alaska 511 advisory keeps View Drive restricted to local traffic from Terrace Place to the end of the road, with no end time listed, after the Mendenhall River crested Thursday at 14.7 feet, below the 16.1- to 16.6-foot crest the National Weather Service had forecast.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min readAI
UAF will study the landslides thawing under Alaska's pipeline
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Alaska Fairbanks $294,141 for lab testing of landslide samples from the central Alaska Range, work aimed at predictive tools for protecting the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and highways as permafrost thaws.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago2 min readAI
Feds move to fast-track a Juneau flood-control fix by cutting permitting and paperwork
The Army Corps, USDA and Interior say they will solicit proposals for glacial-flood infrastructure prototypes in Juneau under an approach that avoids burdensome paperwork. The release does not say which processes would be avoided or when the solicitation issues.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago2 min readAI
Nearly four years on, Alaska has been paid 15 percent of Merbok's $90.9 million
Nearly four years after Typhoon Merbok, only 15% of FEMA's rebuild money for western Alaska has been paid out, as the Sept. 30 deadline nears and projects risk losing money.
by Lucas Brown1mo ago3 min readAI
An airman's idea for a cargo cart is out to bid at JBER
A new Air Force solicitation seeks engineering and fabrication of a Version 2.0 Logistics Operational Device cart, a manual alternative to K-loaders, with final fit-checks and operational testing at JBER alongside the 176th Logistics Readiness Squadron.
by Alaska News1mo ago1 min readAI
Wind advisory warns of 55 mph gusts on the Richardson Highway Sunday and Monday
NWS Fairbanks issued a wind advisory for the Eastern Alaska Range north of Trims Camp from 10 a.m. Sunday to 7 p.m. Monday, with south winds of 25 to 35 mph and gusts to 55 mph, strongest Sunday night into Monday.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
A federal rule will stop habitat destruction from counting as "harm" to listed species
Interior's semiannual regulatory agenda, published Friday, lists the rescission of the Endangered Species Act definition of "harm" at final rule stage. The change would drop habitat modification from the definition, a shift with direct bearing on Alaska salmon habitat and federal permitting.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Federal regulators weigh a noise permit for a Douglas Island cruise terminal, with sea otters in the balance
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed a permit allowing pile-driving noise from a Douglas Island cruise terminal to affect sea otters, with public comment open through Sept. 11.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
A heat advisory covers much of Southeast Alaska through Friday evening
A heat advisory covers much of Southeast Alaska, including Juneau and Ketchikan, through Friday evening, with temperatures in the lower 80s and most homes lacking air conditioning.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
A Juneau evacuation route is restricted as the valley floods
North Riverside Drive is restricted to local traffic as the Mendenhall Valley floods from the Suicide Basin outburst. About 5,000 people were told to evacuate before the crest.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Money floods a dead-even Alaska Senate race
Alaska's U.S. Senate race between Dan Sullivan and Mary Peltola has drawn an extraordinary flood of money as polls show a dead heat ahead of the Aug. 18 open primary.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Juneau asks Mendenhall Lake evacuation zone residents to leave by 3 p.m.
Unified Command asked residents of roughly 2,000 Mendenhall Valley homes, an estimated 5,000 people, to finish evacuating by 3 p.m. Wednesday as the National Weather Service forecasts a 16.1- to 16.6-foot crest Thursday morning. Officials said a HESCO barrier failure would leave minutes to react.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago3 min readAI
Juneau's glacial outburst flood crested Thursday at 14.7 feet, above major flood stage
Alaska 511 posted a flooding risk Wednesday evening for Back Loop Bridge Trailhead Forest Service Road at mile marker 4, both directions. The road is not fully closed, and no end time is listed. The City and Borough of Juneau is advising flood-zone residents to evacuate.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
From California to Southeast Alaska, salmon fisheries are closing in lockstep this week — under the same treaty
Southeast Alaska's commercial troll fishery closed after reaching its Pacific Salmon Treaty Chinook cap, as NOAA closes West Coast salmon fisheries the same week under the same shared stocks.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
A NOAA study finds Pacific capelin may spawn more than once
A new NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center study found an iteroparity rate of 41 percent in Pacific capelin, the first evidence the forage fish can spawn in more than one year. The finding matters for predator and ecosystem forecasting, not harvest.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago3 min readAI
New $605k research asks why some Denali spruce survive the beetles
A spruce beetle outbreak has killed 45% to 60% of spruce around Denali. NSF-funded UAA research will study why some trees survive and what happens to the soil after the rest die.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
The panels that shape Alaska's pollock and cod catch limits meet next month
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has scheduled its Groundfish Plan Teams for a hybrid public meeting Sept. 8-11, 2026. The agenda centers on scientific and management reviews rather than a council vote, with online access through the NPFMC meetings portal.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Interior faces warmest stretch of summer as Tanana Valley smoke lingers
NWS Fairbanks forecasts highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s from Wednesday through the weekend across the Interior, with wildfire smoke already degrading air quality in the middle Tanana Valley and light winds unlikely to move it out.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Water begins flowing over Suicide Basin ice dam, NWS tells Juneau to finish flood prep
NWS Juneau said Tuesday that water has started spilling over the Suicide Basin ice dam and urged residents along Mendenhall Lake and the Mendenhall River to finalize flood preparations. Past releases have taken up to six days to begin after overtopping starts.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
SBA rule drops 8(a) disadvantage presumption for individual owners, leaves Native corporations untouched
A final SBA rule effective Sept. 10 removes the rebuttable presumption of social disadvantage for individually owned 8(a) applicants. The agency says it does not touch eligibility for entity-owned firms, including Alaska Native corporations.
by Alaska News1mo ago3 min readAI
Yukon fall chum and coho fishing closes as the Canadian-bound run comes in far below treaty levels
Subsistence fishing for fall chum and coho in Yukon River District 6 closes Aug. 15, as the Canadian-origin chum run falls far below treaty objectives, straining families who depend on the fishery.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Sullivan voted against every Iran war powers resolution this year — a record now drawing outside money before the primary
Sen. Dan Sullivan voted against all 13 Iran war powers resolutions in the Senate this year, a record now drawing outside spending for and against him ahead of Alaska's Aug. 18 primary.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI