Front-runner candidates for Alaska’s sole U.S. House of Representatives seat expressed strong support for the fishing industry and coastal communities at a debate in Kodiak over the weekend. Incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Nick Begich III and independent challenger Bill Hill took very similar positions on issues including fisheries bycatch, declining fish stocks and representation in […]
Everyone debating the Alaska LNG project assumes the developer wants what it says it wants: to build an 800-mile natural gas pipeline. But look at Glenfarne’s deeds instead of its words, and a different possibility emerges. Glenfarne may actually be waiting to see if things work out with the pipeline because it now has an […]
This story was originally published in the Anchorage Press. Subscribe here. The world’s largest mining company is back in Alaska. More than a decade after abandoning a search for coal in the western Arctic, Australia-based BHP quietly staked new mineral claims this summer in a remote part of Southcentral Alaska — with an eye for […]
Acting like a waiter presenting a divided restaurant dinner table with the bill, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources filed suit against nine different North Slope oil and gas operators last month, seeking to determine who is financially responsible for three semi-abandoned wells. The state’s voluminous 59-page complaint, filed in Anchorage Superior Court, represents an […]
Alaska prosecutors are dropping voter misconduct cases against a group of residents born in American Samoa after a state appeals court threw out felony charges against a woman who wrongly checked a …
Four French fighter jets have embarked on a 40-day flight to showcase the country's military might and international cooperation. The Pegase 26 mission involves around 300 personnel and refueling and …
Alaska candidates for governor defended their financial disclosure reports this week, following a review by the Alaska Department of Law that claimed several possible omissions. In a Labor Day news conference, Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom said her decision to restore Republican governor candidate Treg Taylor to the general election ballot was based in part on […]
Rep. Andrew Gray of Anchorage is not a Swiss businessman. Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon is not selling fire sprinkler systems. Lieutenant governor candidate Zac Johnson isn’t running an equestrian fox-hunting club in Indiana. Days after the Alaska Department of Law said it found possible gaps in dozens of political candidates’ financial disclosure forms, […]
Sarah Short, a Republican candidate for House District 13 in Anchorage, sued the Alaska Public Offices Commission and the Alaska Division of Elections on Friday, arguing that she was improperly disqualified from running in the primary after failing to file a personal financial disclosure form on time. Short is representing herself in the case. An […]
A fishing crew in Alaska’s Bering Sea rescued a teenager who clung to a capsized boat for days in the frigid waters. The rescuers say they also recovered the bodies of the boy’s brother and a …
The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority’s plans to develop industrial facilities on land that currently belongs to Alaskan citizens has generated extensive criticism for many reasons. As a group of teens working to preserve our environment to the best of our abilities, we feel that it is our responsibility to inform Alaskans about how […]
The Alaska Democratic Party filed a petition on Wednesday asking a state Superior Court judge to compel the Alaska Division of Elections to disqualify a candidate for the Alaska State House from the November ballot. That’s after Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom reversed an Aug. 31 decision not to certify two Republican candidates for the […]
Way.com reports on auto repair shops per capita in Alaska and across the country.
The price of North Slope crude oil topped $100 per barrel on Wednesday, crossing that mark for the first time since June, according to figures published by the Alaska Department of Revenue. Though the rising cost of diesel, heating oil and gasoline is hitting individual Alaskans hard — nationally, the price of diesel topped $6 […]
At a fisheries forum held Wednesday night in Kodiak, all four candidates remaining in Alaska’s gubernatorial race found plenty of common ground. Former state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a Democrat, and the three Republicans, former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, former state Attorney General Treg Taylor and business owner and talk-show host Bernadette Wilson, described the seafood […]
The Alaska Legislature will join Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration in seeking to defend the state’s anti-bootlegging punishments in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. On Thursday, the joint House-Senate Legislative Council voted to hire an outside attorney to draft a friend-of-the-court letter — formally known as an amicus brief — in support of the state […]
Matt Schultz, the former Democratic candidate for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, is sending $200,000 in leftover campaign funds to the Alaska Democratic Party, the organization said Sept. 4. About half of that figure will be distributed to state House and Senate candidates, and the other half will be kept for long-term projects, said party […]
Two Soldotna residents have pleaded guilty to disrupting a legal fur trapping line in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge after their dog was caught in a trap. Laura McIndoe and Trafford Evanoff had challenged a pair of citations issued by a Fish and Wildlife Service officer in February 2025 but abandoned their challenge shortly before […]
Three southeast Alaska commercial fishers accused of deliberately sinking their boats are now pleading guilty. John Fisher of Sitka, Joseph Poling of Petersburg and Tony Vanveen of Sitka have each signed plea deals, according to documents filed with the U.S. District Court in the District of Alaska. The three were initially charged earlier this year […]
Three of the four remaining Alaska gubernatorial candidates discussed subjects ranging from the hard numbers that quantify the state’s fiscal challenges to more esoteric topics like quality of life on Tuesday in their first face-to-face meeting since a post-primary shakeup changed the field. Former state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a Democrat, and former Anchorage Mayor Dave […]