The Alaska Permanent Fund, the No. 1 source of general-purpose revenue for state services and the Permanent Fund dividend, suffered a multibillion-dollar loss during last week’s stock market crash.
On a small island in the Aleutians, some place names from World War II are reminders of the hate and racism of that time. An Anchorage historian has been working to correct that.
The federally funded vouchers allow qualifying participants to select a unit in the private rental market, with the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation paying a portion of the rent to the landlord.
A German shepherd-husky mixed dog has been on the run near Juneau for nearly two months, and animal rescue officials are taking their time attempting to capture her.
The city of Anchorage has met the mark on many of its top challenges over the past decade, current Assembly Chair Christopher Constant said at the weekly Make It Monday forum.
Six Fairbanks businesses united together, organizers say, to show appreciation to 1,700 Fairbanks North Star Borough School District employees by donating more than $500,000 in gift cards.
In order to encourage residents to grow food locally and increase donations, the Fairbanks Community Food Bank is beginning operation of a Biodigester in its warehouse.
The Museum of the Aleutians recently received a notice from the National Endowment for the Humanities that a grant it received to preserve cultural history in the region had been cancelled, as the NEH reallocates the funding in “furtherance of the President’s agenda.”
Hundreds of trees on the Anchorage Hillside will be coming down this summer as Chugach Electric Association has begun work to clear utility easements that stretch from the Dimond Area and O’Malley area up to Bear Valley.
Alaskan-based directors Bradford Jackson and Steven Cornfield traveled to the megalopolis of Los Angeles for the 25th Annual Beverly Hills Film Festival, but not just for a breakup-season vacation to a warmer clime. Both Jackson and Cornfield screened their Alaskan-made films along the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Protestors Saturday shouted “say his name” outside the Anchorage Police Department headquarters in downtown Anchorage, demanding justice for Kenneyon Baker
Due to oncoming weather patterns the Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center and National Weather Service issued an avalanche warning for the Western Chugach and Kenai Mountains.
The purpose of the new buses, according to the FNSB, is to cut down on the use of conventional diesel by using CNG, which is more efficient and environmentally friendly.
The homeschool and hybrid education facility is years in the making, at the ribbon cutting families and officials agreed the opportunities it will provide are invaluable to education.
The DOT is seeking feedback on a project design that will add traffic lights, medians and new lanes to the intersection of the Parks Highway and Sheep Creek Road.
According to the Urban Indian Health Institute, the first recorded case of a missing and murdered Indigenous woman or girl was in 1943. Two-thirds of all the cases they gathered for a 2025 study were from 2010-2018, which they say suggests the number of cases is much higher than the institute was able to find and identify.
On May 7, REAL IDs will be required to board domestic flights as well as certain federal facilities. However, some Alaskans in rural communities are finding the path to obtain those IDs complicated and expensive.
Friends and family of 16-year-old Tucker Challans, who died March 22 in an avalanche on a snowmachine trip in Turnagain Pass, gathered on Thursday evening for his memorial in the form of a “two stroke send off.”
The renewed push for the development of a new liquefied natural gas line in Alaska is prompting more heated debate over the future of resource development in the state.
In a special ceremony Thursday, Willow Crest Elementary School renamed their gym to the Leroy C. Jones Gymnasium to honor their former gym teacher and coach for his 32 years of service to the Anchorage School District.
Anchorage Police Department’s recent ballot proposition that would have used a tax levy to fund new department vehicles is currently not passing in Anchorage’s municipal election.
Stocks on Wall Street took a nosedive Thursday, less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump announced widespread tariffs on a majority of goods imported into the United States.
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaiʻi, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky CEO Rebecca Gibron said, “We will not turn our backs on our patients,” despite funding freeze.
The Fairbanks area received eight inches of snow this week, and with the snowfall being close to the deadline to remove studded tires, there are concerns that it could be pushed back.
If you're making plans for your garden this year in Southcentral Alaska, you might want to consider how to protect those plants from any potential ashfall from Mount Spurr in the event of an eruption.
With the chance of Mt. Spurr erupting, a potential for air cargo to be disrupted threatens the supply chain of goods going to Fairbanks and other communities in Alaska.
