The commercial salmon harvest in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, site of the world’s largest sockeye salmon runs, held a mixture of good news and bad news this year. The run of sockeye salmon, also known as red salmon, exceeded preseason expectations and totaled 56.7 million fish, the seventh highest since 2005, the Alaska Department of Fish […]
This article was updated at 7:50 p.m. Friday with comment from Cook Inletkeeper. The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game may allow personal watercraft, commonly called Jet Skis, in Kachemak Bay south of Homer. The unanimous decision by the five-member court overturned a lower-court judge who had ruled […]
The Trump administration is planning to close some U.S. Forest Service offices in Alaska under a national reorganization announced this summer by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. Public comment on the reorganization is open through Sep. 30. The Forest Service, which is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, currently has offices in Anchorage, Juneau, […]
Republican U.S. Rep. Nick Begich III – Alaska’s sole representative in the United States House of Representatives – visited upper and middle Kuskokwim communities this week, making stops in Aniak and Bethel, as well as other smaller villages upriver. During his time in Bethel, Begich sat down at KYUK with News Director Sage Smiley to […]
Everyone had a job. The men and boys drove the boats upriver to dip the nets in the river and seine. The women waited. Never wondering. There were always enough. The salmon that filled the boats when they returned weren’t huge — humpies aren’t — maybe a foot long. But they were plentiful and made […]
A U.S. District Court judge in Anchorage has ruled against the state of Alaska in an 11-year-old legal dispute that has significant implications for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and state finances. On Wednesday, Judge Sharon Gleason ruled that laws and regulations setting the western border of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are “ambiguous,” but […]
Scams are nothing new – fraud has existed as long as human greed. What changes are the tools. Scammers thrive on exploiting vulnerable, uninformed users, and they adapt to whatever technologies or trends dominate the moment. In 2025, that means AI, cryptocurrencies and stolen personal data are their weapons of choice. And, as always, the […]
Alaska Republican U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan signed on to a letter with 10 other U.S. senators, calling on the U.S. Department of Education to reverse the decision to cut millions in congressionally approved grant funding for Native American-serving colleges and universities nationwide. The letter, addressed to U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, […]
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Monday vetoed Senate Bill 54, a bill that sought to extend and expand the duties of the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers and Land Surveyors, including licensing interior designers. Sen. Matt Claman, D-Anchorage and the bill’s sponsor, said he learned of the veto Tuesday and said it could […]
More than 25,000 Alaskans who buy health insurance through the federal marketplace will face massive and possibly unaffordable cost increases if federal subsidies expire at the end of the year. “I do think it’s important to recognize that we should be seeing thousands of people likely lose coverage from this,” said Jared Kosin, president and […]
President Donald Trump will use his address to the United Nations General Assembly to spotlight his second-term foreign policy achievements and lament that “globalist institutions have …
The U.S. Government does not have a good grasp on the federally-funded research needs for advancing U.S. national interests in the Arctic. That became clear to me when the U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC) recently published a new report that was intended to articulate those needs. In seeking alignment with the America First Agenda of […]
A person already in prison has been sentenced to 80 years in federal custody for building and mailing two bombs while incarcerated. Federal prosecutors announced the sentence for the inmate, who was …
This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th. Meet Chabeli and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. In America, diapers have long been treated as a luxury good rather than a necessity. Half of families with young kids struggle to afford all the diapers they need. A quarter […]
More than 10,000 known Alaska landslides or landslide-related events are documented in a new state inventory intended to help improve understanding of risks and what can be done to improve safety. The inventory, published by the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, is intended to be integrated into a national landslide inventory maintained by […]
The brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula have been gorging all summer on an abundant sockeye salmon run. That means they will be maximum weight just in time for the wildly popular online voting …
PALMER – The Matanuska-Susitna Borough wants federal officials to forgive millions of dollars of transit grant repayments it owes as part of the failed Knik Arm ferry project, according to a letter sent last week to the Federal Transit Administration. Transit officials late last month renewed their decade-old effort to require the borough to repay […]
LEFT HAND, W. Va. — The residents of Roane County, West Virginia, enjoy living among the rolling mountains and winding, two-lane roads. Situated between Charleston and Parkersburg, two of the state’s largest cities, the rural county is known for its small towns and historic buildings. That’s how Sherry Husted, the director of the Roane County […]
In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency released a historic Endangerment Finding, which concluded that six greenhouse gas emissions contribute to air pollution and endanger public health and well-being. This pollution is one of the key drivers of climate change, which can also result in more intense storms, increased drought and wildfires, and risks to human […]
Alaska’s high court has confirmed an unprecedented decision by the state Board of Chiropractic Examiners to revoke a license issued to a Fairbanks chiropractor. The Alaska Supreme Court published its decision Friday, overruling a lower court decision in the process. Writing for the court, which ruled unanimously, Justice Dario Borghesan said that “the troubling facts […]