An Alaska state judge says he expects to issue a swift decision in a lawsuit filed by the campaign of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola. Her campaign is seeking a list of absentee voters …
Alaska is facing a public lands emergency. Some of our best and wildest places are being handed over to private, usually foreign, industry — and Alaskans and U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill in order to do it. The latest example is the proposed West Susitna Industrial Access Road, which the Alaska Industrial Development and […]
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday approved a scaled-down version of a controversial land transfer to a state-owned corporation, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority. According to a final finding and decision published Tuesday afternoon, DNR has approved a plan that would give approximately 6,800 of land for free to the state-owned […]
Alaska fishery biologists expect next year’s run of sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay — site of the world’s largest sockeye runs — to be about normal. The forecast for 2027, released by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game last week, estimated a return of 49.31 sockeye salmon in the coming summer season. That would […]
Stacker compiled a list of boroughs with the most veterans in Alaska
The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday overturned a two-year-old lower court decision that dismissed a state lawsuit against Albertsons and Kroger, the corporate parents of Safeway and Fred Meyer, for their role in the state’s prescription opioid addiction epidemic. Writing unanimously for the court, Justice Jude Pate wrote, “we hold that the pharmacies’ failure to […]
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola extended her lead over incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan in an updated vote total published Monday by the Alaska Division of Elections. While Peltola has had more first-choice votes since Election Day, preliminary calculations by the Alaska Beacon have shown Sullivan leading when the results of the state’s […]
The Alaska Department of Administration has canceled a request for proposals that could have led to the privatization of the state’s payroll system for 14,000 public employees. In an Oct. 29 memo, DOA Commissioner Paula Vrana wrote, “The procurement process has now concluded and the State has cancelled the RFP. Instead of pursuing a contract […]
President Donald Trump said he ‘might have been too tough for voters’ on deportations and that he thinks he can work with Democrats on an immigration deal. But Trump and his Department of Justice …
Sen. Bert Stedman says he wasn't surprised to see a leftward shift in the Legislature since the Nov. 3 “blue tidal wave” election, and he sees it as unlikely he will be part of a majority bipartisan coalition in the Senate this coming...
The state ferry M/V Columbia is delayed in Ketchikan because of a mechanical problem with the port main engine of the vessel, the Alaska Marine Highway System reports. Engine repairs are scheduled to begin Thursday morning once a technician...
Officials with the University of Alaska report more than $86 million in federal grants that were frozen or delayed by the Trump administration have been restored. The update was provided to the University of Alaska Board of Regents at their quarterly board meeting on Friday by Shelby Beck, assistant director of federal relations for the […]
Alaska voters in the Third Judicial District opted to reject two state judges standing for retention in the midterm election by wide margins in initial results on Tuesday. The vote comes after the non-partisan Alaska Judicial Council — charged with vetting and nominating judges, as well as conducting performance evaluations — issued a rare recommendation […]
The campaign of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola sued the Alaska Division of Elections on Friday in an attempt to make public the names of Alaskans whose absentee ballots have been rejected by the division. The suit was filed Friday in Anchorage Superior Court by Alaskans For Mary, and it named the Division, its […]
President Donald Trump must now decide what to do about his unpopular 8-month-old war against Iran. For weeks, Trump threatened a post-election full-scale bombardment if Tehran didn’t accept his …
A rare viral disease has emerged in an outbreak in Alaska’s largest city that appears to be expanding, state health officials report. There are now four new cases in Anchorage of mpox, a viral disease formerly called monkeypox that is spread through close contact and can be fatal. None of the patients reported traveling outside […]
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins' campaign is showing confidence that JKT and running-mate Zac Johnson are on track to win the Alaska governor's race outright.
With the majority of general election ballots counted giving her a third term as District 2 representative, Rebecca Himschoot is looking forward to her new role in the Legislature: chairman of the House Rules Committee. Himschoot represents Sitka...
Veterans have been in the spotlight as Americans across the country have celebrated our nation’s 250th birthday. And rightly so — the rights and freedoms that we enjoy are secured by the courage and sacrifice of our veterans. But while veterans took an oath to defend our rights, their own rights sometimes go undefended in […]
In a court filing Thursday, officials with the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority said their plans to explore for oil in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are on hold until at least mid-January as they wait for permission from the federal government. The refuge, located to the east of Prudhoe […]