Alaska’s short summers demand fast, resilient pollinators — and few species meet that challenge as well as our native bumblebees. These insects are active in cold, windy, and unpredictable weather that keeps most other pollinators grounded. Their ability to generate heat, forage in low temperatures and fly long distances makes them essential to the health […]

An environmental group has sued the Trump administration over its failure to grant Endangered Species Act protections to sunflower sea stars, a keystone Pacific Ocean species that lost 90% of its population since 2013 to a wasting disease. The Center for Biological Diversity, in its lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern […]

Stacker compiled a ranking of the highest-earning boroughs in Alaska.

Stacker compiled a list of cities with the most expensive homes in the Fairbanks metro area using data from Zillow.

Stacker compiled a list of cities with the most expensive homes in the Anchorage metro area using data from Zillow.

Members of the Alaska House Judiciary and State Affairs committees held an investigatory hearing on Monday about the state’s decision to remove a candidate from the U.S. Senate election with the same name as the incumbent  — Dan Sullivan. The Division of Elections announced that Dan J. Sullivan, a retired teacher from Petersburg, was not […]

Government regulators and scientists are investigating the death of a fin whale that was carried on the bow of a cruise ship into Seward on Friday. The dead female whale, measuring 61 feet and apparently pregnant, was moved by local responders to a nearby beach for the investigation into its cause of death, the National […]

A Coast Guard helicopter has crashed in Alaska and all four crew members aboard were injured. The MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crashed Monday morning several miles outside of Sitka near Harbor Mountain, …

A man with the same name and party affiliation as Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan has challenged a decision by a top state elections official to disqualify his candidacy and remove him from …

Businesses routinely offer discounts and coupons as enticements to get people to spend money, or to buy something they wouldn’t normally purchase if they had to pay full price. It’s the same for the proposed Alaska North Slope natural gas pipeline project. The dream has been around for almost 60 years, but no one has […]

Redfin Real Estate compiled data on how long it takes to buy a house in 2026 in Fairbanks, AK.

Redfin Real Estate compiled data on how long it takes to buy a house in 2026 in Anchorage, AK.

The Juneau Community Foundation is giving the Alaska Legislature 16 two-bedroom apartments as part of a long-term effort to keep the state’s capital in Juneau. Members of the House-Senate Legislative Council voted unanimously to accept the apartments, which are spread across two four-plexes and one eight-plex in the Starr Hill and Chicken Ridge neighborhoods, respectively. […]

The Alaska House of Representatives on Saturday rejected a Senate-drafted multibillion-dollar tax break for a proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline project, as members of the House declined to abandon a different proposal they drafted. Members of the House voted down the Senate’s revised bill 12-28, nine votes short of what was needed to adopt the […]

The Alaska Senate has approved a multibillion-dollar tax cut for the developers of the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline, but some changes adopted late Friday by the Senate reduced the size of the break. Speaking to reporters after the 12-8 Senate vote, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and House Majority Leader Chuck Kopp, R-Anchorage, said the Senate […]

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy extended his record-high veto rate Thursday by vetoing nine of the 82 bills passed by lawmakers in the second year of the 34th Alaska State Legislature. Among the vetoed bills were measures that would have provided mental health lessons to kids in public schools, created a retirement plan for private-sector workers […]

Alaska’s acting attorney general filed an emergency petition with the Alaska Supreme Court to compel the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District to open a charter school whose application the district previously denied. The petition comes one day after a Fairbanks judge denied a preliminary injunction filed by the local charter group that sought to […]

The federal government is continuing to push for oil drilling in a North Slope conservation area intended to protect caribou. Last month, the U.S. Department of the Interior asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review a ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason that blocked oil and gas lease sales in […]

The abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to slavery. Douglass himself was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. Douglass described in his 1845 autobiography how one of his enslavers, Mrs. Auld, began teaching him to read when he […]

Hundreds of sophisticated monitoring instruments will remain in place in the nation’s oceans, thanks to a National Science Foundation reversal of its plan to partially dismantle the system. The federal agency announced on Thursday that it is dropping its plan to remove hundreds of instruments from the Ocean Observatories Initiative program. The program encompasses more […]