Influenza-related illnesses killed 36 Alaskans during the 2025-2026 flu season, the Alaska Section of Epidemiology said Friday in a regular annual report summarizing the prior flu season. The report was released alongside a bulletin recommending flu shots for all Alaskans that are at least six months old who do not have medical conditions affected by […]
Alaska’s primary revealed some of the headaches related to a major change in how voters select their candidates. Late withdrawals shook up the races for governor and Congress. That's left many …
On the day that his campaign announced it had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from employees of a California-based artificial intelligence company, Democratic governor candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins said that if elected, he will seek to temporarily ban new computing data centers in Alaska. As Americans grow frustrated with artificial intelligence software and […]
An Alaska nominee for federal judge joined other nominees in a joint confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday and declined to answer some questions about the 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. President Trump nominated Kyle Reardon, a federal magistrate judge and former prosecutor, to fill […]
The Coast Guard icebreaker Healy will not sail to the Arctic Ocean this year. The Healy is one of only two active Arctic icebreakers in the Coast Guard’s fleet and had been scheduled to return to service this year and sail to the Arctic after an overhaul, but during a post-shipyard voyage in July, it […]
Officials say 75 absentee in-person ballots cast by voters in rural western Alaska communities arrived too late to be counted in last month’s primary election. The Alaska Division of Elections …
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District will use state and local taxpayer funding to cover startup costs for a new program allowing teachers and staff members to carry concealed weapons in schools, district officials said.
This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra and Isabela Espadas Barros Leal of The 19th. Meet Shefali and Isabela and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. The first-ever congressional hearing on menopause is coming with a request to the federal government: Evaluate how to better fund treatment and research of […]
The Alaska Court System is now offering automatic reminders by text message for people with upcoming court hearings, part of an effort to reduce the number of missed appearances. The court system announced the service Wednesday. State courts already offer automatic text notifications for jury duty and upcoming criminal cases. To sign up for the […]
While environmentalists oppose the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of the Roadless Rule, which would remove prohibitions on road construction and logging on nearly 59 million acres of national forest, I see this as an opportunity for professional foresters to manage federal land, reduce wildfire risk and boost the economy. I’ve spent 30 years in the […]
About 1 in 30 absentee ballots cast in Alaska’s August primary election were rejected for procedural errors, according to data published this month by the Alaska Division of Elections. The 3.4% rejection rate for absentee ballots was almost double what it was in the 2024 general election but it was below the record high 4.5% […]
The three Republicans and one Democrat seeking to become Alaska’s next governor pitched their visions for state healthcare policy on Wednesday to an audience of experts: members of the Alaska Hospital and Healthcare Association. The organization capped its two-day annual conference in Girdwood with a forum among the gubernatorial candidates who are running under Alaska’s […]
The prospect of data centers in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough has raised public concern and scrutiny of a proposed state land transfer of nearly 20,000 acres to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority. Now, Alaska lawmakers are weighing in with legal concerns about the state’s proposal. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources issued a preliminary […]
This story about child care solutions was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. SEWARD, Alaska — It was 2018 when Casie Warner first realized there was a major problem in this popular cruise port, nestled on an inlet about a two-hour drive south of Anchorage. At the time, […]
Twice a week, ships from each of Alaska’s two ocean carriers arrive in Anchorage after a days-long journey from Washington state. They carry most of the food Alaskans buy at the grocery store on the road system and beyond. A dizzyingly complex network of boats, trucks and planes then carries food step by step from […]
A Place for Mom reports on memory care costs in Alaska and across the country.
If you use Alaska’s public cabins, get ready for a change. On Oct. 1, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources will begin limiting how far in advance reservations can be made to three months, down from six months. The only exceptions to the three-month reservation window will include the Wood-Tikchik Region and cabins on Afognak […]
In August, more than 70% of participating Alaska voters supported Ballot Measure 1, voting to restrict the amount of money that individuals can contribute to campaigns for state office. On Nov. 3, Alaskans will vote on Ballot Measure 2, and an overlooked section of that measure — intended to roll back the state’s election system […]
Following a ruling by the Alaska Court of Appeals, the Alaska Department of Law has dropped criminal charges against 11 American Samoan residents of Whittier who were accused of illegal voting. American Samoans are U.S. nationals but not citizens and thus cannot vote in Alaska elections. State prosecutors charged Tupe Smith and 10 other Whittier […]
The Arctic Report Card, the annual peer-reviewed analysis of climate in the circumpolar region, will continue even without federal government support, scientists announced. The American Geophysical Union, an organization representing tens of thousands of Earth and space scientists, announced last week that it has taken over as manager of the Arctic Report Card after the […]