Anchorage Republican Rep. David Nelson will not run for re-election to the state House district covering Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and Government Hill, he confirmed in a Monday phone call. Nelson initially announced his decision on social media, saying that his choice was driven by his upcoming marriage. “Next summer, Breanna and I will be getting […]
Alaska legislators with the state Joint Armed Services Committee are raising concerns that a federal directive to prepare the Alaska National Guard to deploy domestically for civil unrest could divert service members from disaster relief efforts. In October, the Pentagon ordered all states to prepare the National Guard to be trained for “civil disturbance operations,” […]
I suppose it was inevitable that I would someday write a commentary in opposition to the proposed Ambler Road. Both the Arctic region through which the road would pass, and the reason it’s a developer’s dream, are deeply connected to the path my own life has taken. Along its 211-mile length, the road would skirt […]
Third in a three-story series on mining in Alaska published in a partnership between Inside Climate News and Northern Journal. Read parts one and two. COOK INLET, Alaska—High in a mountain valley on the far west side of this tidal inlet sits an unusual plot of land. It’s a private parcel, with a gravel airstrip […]
Today is Sunday, Nov. 16, the 320th day of 2025. There are 45 days left in the year. Today in history: On Nov. 16, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline …
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An immersion program that helps preserve an Alaska Native language has been a boon to children displaced by last month’s severe flooding in western Alaska. After …
An immersion program that helps preserve an Alaska Native language has been a boon to children displaced by last month's severe flooding in western Alaska. After Typhoon Halong devastated two Yup'ik …
Sen. Shelley Hughes, R-Palmer, resigned from the Alaska Senate on Friday to pursue her gubernatorial candidacy, according to a news release from her campaign. Her resignation follows that of fellow Senate minority caucus member Mike Shower, who represented Wasilla and resigned at the end of last month to focus on his run for lieutenant governor. […]
The University of Alaska is anticipating an increase of up to 10% for health care costs this fiscal year, on par with what employers are anticipating nationally, according to officials presenting to the Board of Regents at their meeting on Nov. 6. Nikole Conley, chief of human resources for the university system, gave a presentation […]
The Marine Mammal Center has rescued a sea otter pup in Morro Bay, California, after it was separated from its mother. The center received a call about distressed cries from the water. Experts …
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. A week after Typhoon Halong passed through Japan in early October, its remnants crossed the Pacific and struck western Alaska. Nearly 50 Alaska Native communities across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta near the Bering Sea were met with towering wind speeds, record storm […]
The University of Alaska’s President Pat Pitney announced on Thursday she will retire at the end of the spring term, in May 2026, after almost 30 years in public service in Alaska and five years as university president. “For over three decades, I’ve seen how the University of Alaska empowers this state,” Pitney said in […]
The Trump administration says it is rescinding federal rules that were aimed at protecting vast swaths of a petroleum reserve in Alaska that provide key habitat for migrating birds, caribou and other …
Three tribal governments and several environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday to try to block a land trade that would allow a road to be built through a national wildlife refuge in southwestern Alaska. The land swap, approved by the U.S. Department of the Interior last month, would open up a section of […]
The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in …
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. As Kristen Moreland waited for the livestream to buffer, her thoughts drifted to the years she’d devoted to defending Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the northeastern sweep of Alaska where the mountains give way to the coastal plain. On screen, the chatter […]
Alaska Native tribes and conservation groups have sued the federal government, seeking to have overturned a land exchange aimed at allowing a road to be built through a national wildlife refuge in …
A series of solar flares, essentially explosions on the surface of the sun, caused unusually bright and colorful displays of aurora borealis in Alaska and other northern latitudes on Tuesday night. University of Alaska Fairbanks Physics Professor Mark Conde said he and other researchers expect that atmospheric activity will continue to result in vividly colored […]
In a hospital room a year ago, Tlingit elder, water protector, and artist John Morris Sr. and I made a special discovery. Even though we’d talked many times about our connections to the Taku River, I’d forgotten to tell him about the woman’s decorative hair comb I’d uncovered in the dirt near the mouth of […]
The state’s latest plan to kill bears in part of Western Alaska to try to boost a flagging caribou population has drawn a new legal challenge. Environmental groups on Monday filed a lawsuit in state Superior Court that seeks to strike down the Alaska Board of Game’s July approval of a controversial predator control program […]