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Republican Treg Taylor is back in Alaska’s race for governor. Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom announced her decision late Friday. // Alaska’s criminal appeals court has thrown out an indictment of a Whittier woman born in American Samoa who state prosecutors accuse of felony voter misconduct. // An Anchorage-based aviation firm has released the names of two pilots killed last month in a plane crash in western Alaska. All eight aboard died. // The Indian Health Service handed ownership of the state's biggest tribal hospital to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. // Arctic Inuit leaders will meet in Nome in 2030 for the Inuit Circumpolar Council’s 16th General Assembly. -
Congressman Nick Begich holds a solid lead over independent candidate Bill Hill after last month’s primary election. But Hill thinks he can beat Begich. // A legal group founded by a member of President Donald Trump’s inner circle is suing the state’s judge-nominating body, the Alaska Judicial Council. // The Alaska Judicial Council is recommending that voters don't retain two judges in the Nov. 3 election. // Anchorage Democrat Rep. Andrew Gray has asked Alaska’s attorney general to prosecute former Attorney General Treg Taylor for failing to file financial reports. // Alaska’s commercial salmon season is winding down, and fishermen are thankful they’re getting higher prices for their catch than they’ve seen in decades. // Alaska’s chief investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board retired this week. Clint Johnson spent nearly three decades with NTSB.
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NewsTwo more victims of last week’s fatal plane crash in Southwest Alaska have been identified. // Military leaders and lawmakers gathered in Fairbanks last week to talk about what Alaska needs to support a growing military presence. // The Alaska Supreme Court issued affirmed that the language for an elections overhaul ballot measure is “true and impartial,” but ordered one change to its description. // The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly is asking for a moratorium on AI data centers as one of its legislative priorities. -
NewsFour people died in a plane crash in the Kenai Peninsula community of Seldovia Wednesday, according to Alaska State Troopers. // Sen. Dan Sullivan and former Congresswoman Mary Peltola vied for support from the petroleum industry Thursday at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association’s annual conference in Anchorage. // Alaska is set to receive up to $23 million from Meta under a landmark multistate settlement agreement. -
NewsThe fourth of eight victims in last week’s fatal plane crash in Southwest Alaska has been identified. // Golden Valley Electric Association’s board of directors voted Tuesday to chug along with a proposal to buy a 60-megawatt generator for an estimated $80 million. // On track to finish third in the primary, Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg says he’s staying in the race for U.S. Senate, for now.
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NewsThe City of Fairbanks on Monday inched a little closer toward accepting a plan to redevelop the site of the demolished Polaris Building. // The Lower Kuskokwim School District says it won’t be re-opening schools in the two communities hit hardest by ex-typhoon Halong last October. // Alaska's biggest health insurance provider is asking to raise its rates on the individual marketplace by more than 25% for next year.
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NewsThe U.S. military has identified some of the victims of the plane crash that killed eight people in Southwest Alaska last week. // The Mukluk Fire destroyed 44 homes in Tok over the past week, according to updated figures from the Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection. // The chief of staff for the City of Fairbanks is moving on after just under five years on the job. // Two Nome-area miners allege in a federal lawsuit they were unlawfully prevented from using a public beach to reach their mining claims.
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NewsInvestigators say the charter plane that crashed in Southwest Alaska last week, killing eight people, was on its second attempt at landing. // The destructive wildfire that broke out in Tok last week won’t delay the start of the school year, according to the district superintendent. // NOAA announced earlier this month that it would end its support for the Arctic Report Card.
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NewsEight people died Thursday after the charter plane they were flying in crashed on a remote cape in Southwest Alaska. // State fire officials have reduced some evacuation orders in Tok for the more than 5,000-acre Mukluk Fire. // A Nenana man has been charged for allegedly sexually assaulting an inmate while he was serving as an officer with the state Department of Corrections. // The Midnight Sun Scottish Highland Games returned to Fairbanks for the second year in a row last weekend.
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NewsTok residents find ways to cope amid destruction from the Mukluk Fire. // Delta Junction voters talk open primaries and ranked choice voting after casting their ballots on Tuesday. // Alaska's highest court heard oral arguments earlier this month over the constitutionality of the Mat-Su Borough School District's bathroom policy.
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NewsState fire officials say a wildfire in the eastern Interior Alaska community of Tok has damaged 20 homes and is still growing. // Preliminary results from Tuesday's primary election are rolling in, showing early leaders in races for Alaska governor, U.S Senate and House and Alaska Legislature.
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Residents of Tok were ordered to evacuate their homes after a wildfire broke out Monday morning. // The final installment in our series of interviews with the top governor candidates features independent candidate Meda DeWitt. // The Get Out the Native Vote effort is working hard this year to improve Election Day turnout by Alaska Natives, which has faded over the past 20 years. // Today is Primary Election Day, and Alaskans have until 8 p.m. to cast votes for governor, U.S. House and Senate, and state House and Senate candidates. // This year's El Niño could bring a stormier winter in western Alaska and elsewhere in the state. // Gardeners and community leaders met last week in the Bering Strait region to learn how to grow food locally.
