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Interior Alaska Native groups set aside a day to repair elders' homes — and couldn't meet the demand

“will include extensive projects that may include painting, building ramps, larger home improvements that require additional time and hands-on support.”
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Kodiak Borough OKs Water Upgrade for Village of Karluk

“I feel like your application was pretty thorough. We appreciate it.”
Alaska News2mo ago

Blake Gettys Builds LG Bid Around Personal Survival Story

“the fire actually kind of renewed my faith. That's essentially a rebirth in that I want to be a better man than I was in the past. I'm remarried and have a wonderful relationship. And not to dwell on things in the past that I can't change, but the wake-up of, look at everything that you still do have in front of you and do appreciate that. That was the catalyst for renewing my faith.”
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Petersburg fire training center relocation could cost $800,000-plus

“I've been told there may be a working plan, but I have not been included in that conversation, so I cannot speak to how it is being funded.”
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Petersburg police, fire face staffing crisis with 5 open positions

“as volunteers, they are never like 100% ready, always able to respond. So we usually get a fraction of that. Um, I don't have like a running count off right here in front of me of actually who's responding, but I mean, a good rule of thumb would be a third of that amount to, you know, at best a half at any one time. So if you cut those numbers in half, it would be 14 members of the fire department, for fire, about 16 to 18 members in EMS.”
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Petersburg to receive Papke's Landing dock, tidelands from state

“Recent word came to the borough that the application for conveying approximately 8.8 acres of DNR tidelands at Papke's Landing is ready to transfer. The borough is just waiting a formal letter to transfer of DOT's dock ownership to the borough before conveyance occurs.”
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Dunleavy was at Trump's signing reopening 500,000 square miles of Western Pacific to commercial fishing

“it's my honor to be taking this action to lower seafood costs and generate millions and millions of dollars in new business for our great, really great fishermen, great people, by restoring commercial access to 3 areas of the Western Pacific Ocean. It's a large amount of space we're talking about that they were restricted. Other countries would use it, but our country couldn't use it.”
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Kodiak planners advance Karluk water system overhaul

“The proposed project includes replacing an existing water tank, extending new water mains and service lines to be to provide year-round source of potable water.”
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Ketchikan awards $2.74M city hall HVAC contract, taps reserves

“This isn't raising taxes. This is already within the funding ability of the city of Ketrikan. The. The monies that we have are for building maintenance and managing our deteriorating infrastructure.”
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Miller's Reach fire lessons shape Alaska wildfire response 30 years on

“I went from literally just a few trees torching, which we got on in a hurry, to group torching and to a full running fire in under 15 minutes. I mean 15, 20 minutes. And it was off and running and something we weren't going to be able to catch.”
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Kenai parent asks commission to lower weight room age limit

“I'm frustrated that I have to send my family to neighboring communities to access opportunities that are unavailable here due to restrictive policies. Many other Kenai residents are doing the same. Let's encourage participants and make the most of our facilities, not push young adults elsewhere”
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Two Mat-Su subdivisions approved — and the small details say something about how the borough is growing

“Seeing no objection, the motion passes.”
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Alaska proposes timber harvest in all Haines State Forest areas

“we published a public notice announcement that specified that we would be revising policy to allow timber harvest in areas where it had previously been prohibited”
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Juneau gets clean audit despite control gaps, three-month delay

“We did have what we call some material misstatements that were corrected as a result of our audit. To highlight quickly these, there was $10 million that was a timing thing. The bond was not issued till FY26, but it got recorded in '25.”
Alaska News2mo ago

Consultant warns Senate Finance that Alaska LNG faces megaproject risks

“92% of megaprojects are over budget, over schedule or both, which he has dubbed the Iron Law megaprojects”
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Mat-Su Planning Commission advances multifamily design standards rewrite

“resolution 26 09, a resolution of the Matanuska Susitna Borough Planning Commission recommending approval of an ordinance amending MSB 17.73 multifamily development design standards to align permitting and design standards with the scale and complexity of development projects”
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Anchorage veteran preference could exclude recent Afghanistan, Iraq vets

“the first version said you had to be discharged under honorable conditions. One of our local internal veterans said, well, there's another category which is not an honorable discharge, which general under honorable conditions, you should include that too. And then we drafted one that I think accidentally went too far and grabbed another category which we didn't mean to grab.”
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Dunleavy declares disaster for Interior spring flooding

“Governor Mike Dunleavy has issued a state disaster declaration in response to the flooding. This activates the state's individual assistance, public assistance, and temporary housing recovery program to help support impacted families.”
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Kenai unveils 20-year parks master plan with sports complex overhaul

“campgrounds and consolidated outdoor sports complexes, um, less maintenance. This all sounds super great. I think it provides an opportunity for members of our community to pitch in. We have user groups for all of these types of facilities who I think want to fund improvements”
Alaska News3mo ago

Kenai enacts subdivision, street design standards overhaul

“Ordinance Number 3520-2026, amending Kenai Municipal Code Chapters 14.10, Subdivision Regulations, and amending Kenai Municipal Code Sections 18.10.030, Street Improvements, to improve— remove Road Design Standards from code and replace with Street Design Standards Manual”
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Juneau Assembly Finance Committee cuts $736,000 in recurring expenses, faces $687,000 deficit

“We are looking at an $8 million deficit, and I, um, shudder to think what the list would have looked like had we done that exercise that, um, whoever is in these seats next year will have, have to do to get to that”
Alaska News3mo ago

Juneau Assembly Finance Committee cuts Travel Juneau budget in 5-4 vote

“Marketing is always the first thing that gets cut, and then you see the results later down the line.”
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Matanuska-Susitna Borough Platting Board approves Settler's Bay Unit 11 subdivision

“It seems like the design could be more conducive to the whole situation over there. Um, we've been involved with the homeowners association for years, and when we've had other things crop up that really affect that subdivision, which happens to be the largest subdivision in the entire state”
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Alaska eyes $3B carbon revenue from 600,000 burned acres

“If all 600,000 acres were treated, potential revenue from offsets over 20 years could exceed $3 billion”
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Alaska, Forest Service sign 20-year shared stewardship timber deal

“I think Ashley mentioned the young growth or second growth forests that are coming up. I understand that could be up to 400 or 500 million board feet a year of timber from these forests. That could attract a state-of-the-art new sawmill.”
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Huna Totem signs Juneau tideland lease for Oak Landing cruise dock

“In April, we signed the tideland lease with the City and Borough of Juneau. The conditional use permits were actually issued in 2023.”
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House Republicans examine $24.8M in federal attorney fees to environmental groups

“Between fiscal year 2019 and fiscal year 2024, federal agencies like the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service paid an estimated $24.8 million in Equal Access to Justice Act awards, with roughly 76% of that going to environmental nonprofits”
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VA budget seeks $488 billion with 60,000 Alaska veterans facing shift toward private care

“This budget request reflects record investments— this budget, uh, requests record investments in the department”
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Commission approves subdivision, rezone for Native Village of Ouzinkie tsunami shelter

“Case S26-016, requests a subdivision of USS 4871 Block 1 Track C, creating USS 4871 Block 1 Lot 2 Track C, and an extension of G Street, a 60-foot right-of-way.”
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Governor Dunleavy touts gas pipeline, credits Trump for reversing federal limits

“I have complete confidence that our legislature will come to the conclusion here shortly that that massive project will benefit this entire state and this country and this world.”
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Assembly advances cell tower ordinance requiring conditional use permits

“it's better for anybody in the public to find an assembly member to talk to in advance because very little will be done right here during that time. Because like everybody is saying, it's going to take a lot to readjust all this.”
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Petersburg voters to decide on sales tax cap increase in October

“Petersburg at $1,200. So it seems as though we should be definitely coming up, and I feel as though this is a reasonable ask. It's comparable to what our sister town is doing, Wrangell”
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Alaska House approves three day recess for Memorial Day weekend during gas line special session

“And with this resolution would potentially endorse is one body or the other just sitting around showing up on the 29th day.”
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Alaska training academy graduates 24 officers after 17-week program

“Seventeen weeks ago, these students arrived at the Department of Public Safety Training Academy as stranger to each other, with only a vague idea of what lay ahead.”
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Alaska Senate rejects healthcare compact bill in 11-9 vote

“When we open ourselves up to these interstate compacts, we open ourselves up to having healthcare providers who do not understand us.”
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Alaska Senate passes $13.9B operating budget with $200 energy relief

“17 Yeas, 3 nays. So by a vote of 17 yeas to 3 nays, the Conference Committee substitute for House Bill 263 has passed the Senate.”
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Aspect Holdings addresses $100B Alaska projection, contested Teshekpuk lease

“Aspect Holdings, the parent of Epic Oil and Gas LLC, was the successful bidder on 8 blocks covering 110,000 acres in the recent Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease offering in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.”
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Anchorage schools eliminate elementary health teachers, shift to integrated model

“we don't have health teachers in the Anchorage District at elementary level starting next school year to do that work.”
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TCLL graduates first 8th grade class after years of Tlingit immersion

“their speeches, their presentation that they gave to you today, all I had to do was tell them, guide them in what to do, and they took it upon themselves to put this program together today”
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Oklo targets 2030 for Alaska's first small nuclear reactor at Eielson

“The Eielson reactor is a 60-megawatt thermal dual-purpose system roughly equivalent to about 15 megawatts electric, depending on how the energy is utilized. Under the current structure for Eielson, up to 5 megawatts of electricity will be supplied directly to the base, while the remaining thermal capacity will supply approximately 50,000 to 100,000 pounds per hour for steam and heating needs.”
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National Lab, University of Alaska Fairbanks sign energy partnership

“yesterday we signed an MOU with the state of Alaska”
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Yukon Premier Warns of Near-Blackouts, Scales Back Electric Vehicle Push

“within just a few weeks of my swearing-in, I had to take a close look at plans for the Yukon to enact rolling blackouts in our capital city if we saw a continuance of that extreme cold. We didn't get there, we dodged that bullet, but it was an extremely harrowing experience”
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Alaska hydropower projects to receive millions in federal funding

“The Department of Energy has recently agreed to resume negotiations to release $430 million for upgrades at 300 facilities around the country. That includes 4 projects in communities around Alaska, including Chugach Electric with the Alaska Energy Authority, Sitka, Ketchikan, and Alaska Electric Light and Power in Juneau.”
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Alaska Positioned as Prime Location for AI Data Center Growth

“The amount of misinformation and disinformation being sowed whether from China or Russia or any of our other national adversaries is extraordinary, extraordinarily hard to combat. But it's very important that we do that because this is absolutely a generational opportunity with tremendous benefits both for society as well as economic well-being for the country.”
Alaska News3mo ago

Federal Officials Push Permitting Reform to Unlock Alaska's Critical Minerals

“Time to get a mine permitted is 15 years, 18 years. That's crazy. No business can plan on an 18-year cycle, yet alone 18 months.”
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Fitch upgrades Tanana Chiefs Conference bond rating to AA-

“TCC is proud to announce that Fitch Ratings has upgraded TCC's bond rating to a AA-, an increase from the A+ rating the organization has maintained over the past several years.”
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Alaska Senate Passes Statewide Styrofoam Ban for Restaurants

“13 Yeas, 7 nays. And so by a vote of 13 yeas and 7 nays, Senate CS for CS for House Bill 25, Labor and Commerce, has passed the Senate.”
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Senate panel advances gas pipeline tax bill after 36 hearings

“we've had 36 hearings on this bill in 2 months. I think that's got to be a record somewhere.”
Alaska News3mo ago

House approves stricter hunting residency rules in divided vote

“24 Yeas, 16 nays. By a vote of 24 yeas to 16 nays, the House has concurred with the changes to House Bill 93.”
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House Finance advances tobacco age increase, e-cigarette tax on 7-4 vote

“what we're doing here by increasing the age and creating a penalty is that we are providing an opportunity in law for there to be police interactions with younger people. Not, not talking about kids here. We're talking about young adults, increased interactions with young adults, pretextual stops”
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