The Coast Guard icebreaker Healy will not sail to the Arctic Ocean this year. The Healy is one of only two active Arctic icebreakers in the Coast Guard’s fleet and had been scheduled to return …
Incorrect information provided by a Google AI overview caused a Kodiak woman to hunt snipe illegally on Sept. 5, according to a citation filed last week at the Kodiak district court. Writing in …
The respiratory virus that sparked a disruptive worldwide pandemic six years ago continues to circulate in Alaska, but its effects are much diminished from past years, according to state health …
Influenza-related illnesses killed 36 Alaskans during the 2025-2026 flu season, the Alaska Section of Epidemiology said Sept. 18 in a regular annual report summarizing the prior flu season. The …
The Ketchikan Gateway Borough assembly unanimously voted on Sept. 21 to condemn “discriminatory comments” made against the Ketchikan Indian Community by Darlene Dollimont-Svenson, a member of the …
Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson was resoundingly elected to a seventh two-year term as the president of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska on Sept. 24, getting 68.1% …
A dead 57-foot-long fin whale was pulled from the bulbous bow of the cruise ship Norwegian Joy on Sept. 17 as the ship made its way toward the terminal for its port call in Sitka. The whale was …
The top vice president is seeking to replace the longtime president of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska during its tribal assembly this week in Juneau, following …
For the past few years, smokehouses in the Yukon River village of Anvik have sat empty. After salmon populations crashed, dozens of Alaska Native communities along the river faced a stark new …
There are clear leaders in Alaska’s races for governor, U.S. House and U.S. Senate, although the latter is tighter than the others, according to a survey published Sept. 17 by AARP Alaska. The …
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 …
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 …
The state ferry terminal in Skagway reopened for service on Thursday, Sept. 10, after a four-week closure to make extensive emergency repairs. Crews completed repairs to all 19 anchor chains and …
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, …
Late Friday night, Sept. 4, Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom reversed a decision she made four days earlier and said she will certify former attorney general Treg Taylor as a final-four candidate in …
The U.S. Forest Service is closing 23 research and development stations in more than a dozen states as part of an organizational overhaul under President Donald Trump that is intended to trim costs …
The Trump administration on Sept. 4 moved to exempt oil projects on federal lands on the west side of Alaska’s North Slope from environmental reviews that have been standard for decades. An …
A three-judge panel of the Alaska Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 4 that state prosecutors misled grand jurors who indicted a Whittier resident for allegedly voting illegally. Had jurors received …
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan J. Sullivan is staying in the race. The Petersburg resident finished third in August’s primary election, with just 2.5% of the vote statewide. He’s come under …
Weeks after suspending his campaign, the leading Democrat in Alaska’s U.S. House race officially withdrew ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline. That withdrawal triggered a sequence of events that put the …