The suicide-death rate for young Alaskans hit a 10-year high last year and the rate of suicide attempts has increased over the past decade, state health officials reported. From 2016 to 2025, there were 174 suicide deaths among Alaska youths under the age of 18 and 4,101 documented suicide attempts, according to a bulletin released […]

Every August, Alaskans gather in Palmer for the State Fair. They come for the exhibits, the food, and the chance to see neighbors from across the state. On Thursday, Aug. 27, a good number of them also came for something less festive and more useful: cancer screening. That day was the second annual Cancer Screening […]

The Alaska Department of Revenue announced on Monday that Alaska’s K-12 public schools will receive an additional $115 million in state funding this year, prompted by a boost in oil revenues driven by the U.S. war on Iran. Legislators earmarked the additional oil revenue for schools as part of the state budget approved by Gov. […]

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is pushing back against a fresh wave of hostility from Washington, telling the Trump administration Tuesday to “stop doing memes, stop throwing shade and stop …

On the morning after he became one of four finalists in the race for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, Libertarian candidate Jim McDermott had to apologize. He didn’t have much time to talk, he said, because he was busy working as a school tutor at Fort Wainwright, in his home town of Fairbanks. McDermott, a […]

Final results from Alaska’s August primary election indicate existing coalition majorities in the state House and Senate are likely to continue after November’s general election and could even grow. Alaska is the only state in the country where the state House and Senate are both controlled by coalitions of Democrats, independents and Republicans, something that […]

President Donald Trump has a lot of irresponsible ideas: Igniting a trade war with Canada because I figure he never liked hockey; declaring that Lake Ontario should forevermore be called Lake America because it’s easier to spell; and taking much of Venezuela’s oil because no one can stop him and he loves the idea of […]

Alaska’s November election for governor will include one Democrat and three Republicans after a final-days shakeup that included a wild last-hour substitution on Monday, the deadline to make changes after August’s primary election.  Under Alaska’s unique elections system, all candidates for an office run against each other in the primary election. The top four candidates, […]

Democrat Tom Begich has withdrawn from Alaska’s governor's race and is supporting the first-place finisher, fellow Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins. A Division of Elections spokesperson confirmed …

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan J. Sullivan is staying in the race for U.S. Senate, he said Monday, hours before the deadline to withdraw from November’s election. The Petersburg Republican finished third in August’s primary election, with just 2.5% of the vote statewide. He’s come under intense scrutiny because he shares a party affiliation and […]

This article has been updated as of 6 p.m. to include the withdrawal of another candidate. Weeks after suspending his campaign, the leading Democrat in Alaska’s U.S. House race officially withdrew ahead of Monday’s 5 p.m. deadline. That withdrawal triggered a sequence of events that put the eighth-place finisher, Libertarian candidate Jim McDermott, on the […]

Federal regulators have suspended a wetlands-fill permit allowing construction of a controversial road through an Alaska national wildlife refuge, but the on-the-ground result of that action is a subject of legal contention. State officials say they still intend to start the work in coming weeks on the first part of the road that is planned […]

Stacker compiled a list of the best high schools in Alaska using data from Niche.

Stacker compiled a list of cities with the fastest-growing home prices in Alaska using data from Zillow.

This story was first published by ICT. The salmon and the ooligan that spawn in the Unuk and Stikine rivers have no say in the expansion of mining operations in British Columbia. Neither do the Alaskan tribes that live on the same rivers. The power lies across the border in Canada, where the mining companies […]

In their first faceoff since the Aug. 18 primary election, Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan used the term “Lower 48 liberal” or some variation of it 16 times to attack his opponent, Democrat Mary Peltola. Speaking at a candidate forum held Thursday at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association’s annual conference in Anchorage, Sullivan used […]

The Alaska Supreme Court issued a fast-tracked ruling on Thursday, affirming a lower court’s decision that the Alaska Division of Elections’ language for an elections overhaul ballot measure is “true and impartial,” but ordered the division to make one additional change.  The Court issued the ruling days after hearing oral arguments from two groups of […]

Alaska officials have approved the first segment of a mining road requested by Grand Portage Resources Ltd., a Canadian mining company. Nearly 90% of public comments opposed the road. The easement …

Authorities have identified the pilot and three passengers killed in a small plane crash in Alaska. The Alaska Department of Public Safety named the pilot as Eric Middlebrook of Anchorage. The …

Florida gets a lot of attention for its sinkholes, especially when they swallow cars and entire houses. But its sinkhole risk has nothing on Alaska’s. Much of Alaska’s soil is permafrost – ground that remains below 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius) for at least two consecutive years. It is often rich with ice, but […]