It’s not a typo. The price of a gallon of gasoline in the northwest Alaska village of Shungnak was $26.82 on Friday, local residents and regional officials said, likely giving the community the dubious honor of having the most expensive gasoline in the United States. “It is very much real,” said Glenda Douglas, who manages […]
Today is Monday, Aug. 24, the 236th day of 2026. There are 129 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida; the storm resulted in 65 deaths …
Under a driving Juneau rain, dozens of new students at the University of Alaska Southeast gathered Friday for orientation and to kick off the fall semester. This year, the public university saw a boost in enrollment of out-of-state students, which officials and students say is largely due to a new policy eliminating the non-resident tuition […]
On Alaska’s primary election day, NBC News — citing unidentified sources — reported that the U.S. Department of Justice has issued grand jury subpoenas as it investigates whether Petersburg candidate Dan J. Sullivan may have somehow violated federal law. If that’s true, subpoenas haven’t reached Sullivan, currently running third in this week’s election and the […]
Two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees are among eight people killed in a small plane crash in western Alaska. The plane, chartered by the agency, crashed Thursday near the Cape Newenham Long …
Alaska plane with 8 on board crashed on a second attempt to land in heavy fog at a remote military airport, NTSB says.
A quiet year for Alaska wildfires is closing out in dramatic fashion with a late-season blaze that has burned homes and prompted evacuations in an Interior Alaska community. As of Thursday, only about 83,400 acres had burned in Alaska wildfires this year, far short of the approximately 1 million acres that has become typical for […]
The gap between the fifth and sixth-place finishers in Alaska’s 17-way governor race closed to fewer than 300 votes on Thursday as the Alaska Division of Elections published more results from Tuesday’s primary election. As of noon Thursday, fifth-place finisher Treg Taylor had 9,775 votes and sixth-place finisher Click Bishop had 9,489. Ordinarily, a change […]
A federal official says a charter plane flying to a remote radar site in western Alaska crashed Thursday. Clint Johnson with the National Transportation Safety Board says there were two pilots and …
US military says 8 people died in a charter plane crash at a remote radar site in western Alaska.
A charter plane with 8 on board has crashed in a remote area of western Alaska, NTSB says.
Like many modern humans, especially those of us who are regularly bombarded by various technologies, I spend way too much time being distracted by “stuff” that doesn’t really matter, from news feeds to emails and text messages and what we’ve come to call social and streaming media—not to mention more traditional forms of the entertainment […]
A federal judge has overturned the land exchange intended to enable the state to build a controversial road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, possibly halting plans for construction to start in the coming weeks. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason ruled Tuesday that the Department of the Interior violated three laws when it approved […]
President Donald Trump announced plans to nominate Kyle Reardon, a federal magistrate judge and former prosecutor, to fill the last of three federal judge positions for the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. Trump announced the nomination on social media on Tuesday, as well as picks for federal trial courts in Texas, Florida, […]
Imagine tearing a ligament on a weekend hike and calling around for a price on the surgery, only to find that the same procedure costs twice as much at one hospital as it does at another less than a hundred miles away. No difference in the treatment, no difference in the outcome. Just a difference […]
Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola have advanced to November’s general election. And they wasted no time preparing for their general election campaign, …
Two-thirds of Americans are worried about climate change, but many don’t realize how they can play a significant role in climate action — at least, not yet. Deadly wildfires regularly scorch California. Last winter, much of the Rockies received record-low snow, signaling water woes for millions. Then a spring heat wave hit the West, decimating […]
Primary voters have not removed any of the Alaska Legislature’s incumbent lawmakers, according to preliminary, incomplete vote tallies published late Tuesday by the Alaska Division of Elections. Of the 40 state House and 10 state Senate races on ballots across the state, only five had more than four candidates. That matters because the top four […]
A U.S. Senate contest featuring a former congresswoman and a challenger with the same name as the incumbent headlines Alaska's primary. Tuesday's ballot also includes candidates for the state's lone …
This article is developing and will be updated. Early tallies from Tuesday’s statewide primary election showed overwhelming support for a ballot measure that will restrict the amount of money that political candidates can accept from groups and individuals. With 242 of 403 precincts reporting by 10 p.m. Tuesday night, Ballot Measure 1 had the support […]