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Cars drive through slushy roads near Providence Hospital in Anchorage on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska Public Media on Facebook and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. And subscribe to the Alaska News Nightly podcast. Thursday on Alaska […]
Alaska Supreme Court Justice Susan Carney. (Alaska Court System) Alaska’s highest court will have a new chief justice in January, and for the first time in its history, the court will be majority female. Justice Susan Carney has served on the Alaska Supreme Court since 2016, and fellow justices recently selected her to be chief […]
A map shows the footprint of the proposed Alaska LNG Project. If it’s built, the pipeline would move natural gas from the North Slope and Southcentral Alaska. (From Alaska Gasline Development Corp.) Building a pipeline between the North Slope and Southcentral Alaska would be more economic for the state than importing gas from other countries. […]
A crane prepares to move a shipping container off a cargo ship and onto a truck at the Port of Alaska on March 22, 2020. (Mayowa Aina/Alaska Public Media) The cost of shipping goods to Alaska could rise next year in response to increased fees at the Port of Alaska. The Anchorage Assembly voted last […]
Attorneys and observers watch in the adjudication room as Division of Election Director Carol Beecher determines how ambiguously-marked ballots should be counted during a recount in Juneau on Dec. 4, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska […]
Northwest Arctic Borough employee Chip Fields delivers water to a plane at the Kotzebue airport headed to Kiana on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (Courtesy Ely Cyrus) The Northwest Arctic community of Kiana issued a disaster declaration on Tuesday after going several days without running water. “This is kind of catastrophic to not have water,” Kiana’s […]
Sen. Mike Shower, R-Wasilla, speaks in the Alaska Senate on March 25, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Six Republicans in the state Senate have announced that they’re planning to form a minority caucus. That would be enough to guarantee conservatives seats on legislative committees and expand the staff they’re able to hire. The minority is […]
WASHINGTON — The holiday season kicked off on Capitol Hill this week with the official Christmas tree lighting ceremony and the unveiling of a gingerbread replica of the U.S. Capitol — complete with sugar flowers representing all 50 states. U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and the Alaska congressional delegation illuminated the 80-foot 2024 […]
Construction workers work on a new house in front of a subdivision in Girdwood in June, 2021 (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska Public Media on Facebook and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. And subscribe to the Alaska News Nightly podcast. Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly: […]
The carrier’s planes were grounded for 40 minutes. A technology issue at Alaska Airlines resulted in the temporary grounding of flights in Seattle on Monday morning and problems into the afternoon for people trying to book flights on its website, the airline said. The Seattle-based company said in a statement the issue Monday morning resulted […]