A final proposal detailing the future of the Eklutna Hydroelectric Project was sent to the desk of Gov. Mike Dunleavy this week, according to Chugach Electric officials.
School officials have cited declining enrollment as the cause for a proposed multi-year school closure plan, as the district has reportedly lost nearly 6,000 students since 2010, with fears that the trend will continue into the future.
The Alaska Wildland Firefighter Academy is a state-funded program that teaches a lot more than just basic firefighting skills, and dozens of men and women are working hard this spring to play a role in fighting Alaska's wildland fires.
A man who police say walked into a Downtown Anchorage inn and shot two people, killing one, in 2009 has been charged with murder after turning himself in.
For the next two months, employees of Anchorage’s Parks and Recreational Department are cleaning up thousands of pounds of trash left behind after this season’s heavy snowfall.
Fourth- and fifth-graders from both Orion and Aurora Elementary School spent the day on Alaska’s largest military installation learning about the planet, how to keep it healthy, and other cultural resources specific to the state.
In a narrow 20-18 vote Wednesday, state House lawmakers moved to send a judge reviewing a state appeal on homeschool funding constitutionality an official request to delay a decision until next summer.
Inbound lanes of the Glenn Highway were closed for several hours Wednesday for a rollover crash near Eagle River that resulted in a man being ejected from his SUV.
On Tuesday, ASD’s Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt spoke about what he calls the “rightsizing initiative” the school district will undergo in the upcoming years, which is being sought by the administration.
A rezoning proposal for the National Archives site near the Cuddy Park encampment passed unanimously, as amended, at Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Anchorage Assembly.
During the initial election, a candidate could win by securing 45% of the vote plus one additional ballot. In the runoff election, candidates need to secure a majority of the vote.
The House Judiciary Committee will hear public testimony Wednesday over a constitutional amendment proposal to allow public funds to be used for religious and private school expenses.
What’s normally a high school science classroom at Mat-Su Career & Tech High School has been transformed into a hub for local government, giving students the chance to participate in local government while having their concerns shared.
The Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center has issued its spring breakup outlook for Alaska, with numerous villages along major rivers seeing a low to moderate flood potential.
Community and residential solar energy projects of the Alaska Energy Authority and Alaska Housing Finance Corporation get huge funding boost from EPA's Solar for All program.
By Friday morning, a rescue attempt by the Alaska Air National Guard was again halted by high winds, but improving conditions allowed the Guard helicopter and pararescuemen to land near the skiers by late morning.
Local community leader and entrepreneur Carmela Warfield was elected as the Alaska Republican Party’s new chair Saturday at the Republican Party State Convention.
Peninsula Airways founder and recipient of the Wright brothers Master Pilot award as well as an inductee of the Alaska Aviation Hall of Fame, Orin Seybert, 87, died of natural causes early Friday morning in Anchorage.
The Alaska job market expanded by 8,900 jobs — or 2.8% — in the month of March, according to the latest figures released by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
A line of dozens of Alaskans waited outside Begich Middle School at 6 a.m. Saturday for dental, vision and medical services at no cost during a Remote Area Medical pop-up clinic.
An Anchorage man recently stumbled across an offensive name of a creek on the Aleutian Islands left over from World War II, and now he's on a mission to change it.
Alaska’s two senators expressed frustration with the Biden administration’s latest attempt to preserve state lands at the cost of resource development.
Nearly two months after a jury convicted Brian Smith on 14 charges related to the murders of two Alaska Native women, the South African national was charged this week with unlawfully obtaining U.S. citizenship.
In this week’s Weather Lab, Chief Meteorologist Melissa Frey steps off the weather green screen and into the Goldenview production studio where the students give her a behind-the-scenes tour and let her co-anchor the news for the day.
The Biden administration said Friday it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres (5.3 million hectares) of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm.
Sea ice is vital in Alaska. It's used as a hunting platform, protects coastal communities from winter storm and is considered a good measure of a changing climate. UAF Geophysical Institute researchers are testing a drone-mounted tool to measure the depth of sea ice.
Residents of the small community of Sutton, nestled between the City of Palmer and the Chickaloon, are speaking in opposition to a proposed move by the Department of Public Safety that would extend Chickaloon Tribal Police officers authority to enforce limited misdemeanor and felony crimes.
Student discipline policies are in line to be reviewed and possibly revised in Anchorage over the next few months, according to Anchorage School Board officials.
Cleanup efforts remain ongoing in the parking lot abutting Davis Park in Mountain View following a zone abatement notice that went into effect on April 12.
Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, whose wife has publicly written about using state funded reimbursements to send their children to private school under the state's homeschool correspondence program, said Thursday he did not have a not have a conflict of interest overseeing a planned appeal a court ruling that could stop similar payments to other parents.
Alaska’s senior senator made headlines Thursday as the only Republican to vote “present” on the first article of impeachment of U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
Critical rescue missions could be drastically curtailed as personnel changes take an outsize toll in a state more than twice the size of Texas, Guard leaders and members say.
The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a new rule for public land management that’s meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other extractive industries on vast government-owned properties.
The governor was joined by Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, who said the state planned to ask for a stay of the decision longer than the June 30, 2024, date NEA-Alaska has asked for.