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Sean Rash, Dick Griffith, Butch Lincoln headline Alaska Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026
The Last Frontier’s all-time best bowler, the grandfather of modern Alaska adventure and a Bush basketball star are headed to the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame.
Dec 11, 20255 min read
US Senate stalemates on spiraling health insurance costs
The U.S. Senate in long-anticipated votes failed to advance legislation Thursday that would have addressed the rising cost of health insurance, leaving lawmakers deadlocked on how to curb a surge in premiums expected next year.
Dec 11, 20255 min read
Abandon new Tongass management plan? Timber says yes, tribes say no ahead of meetings next week
AFA hopes Trump administration allows full harvest of old-growth trees in current plan; Tlingit and Haida expresses concern about impacts on ecosystem, other industries.
Dec 11, 20254 min read
Police blotter for Dec. 9
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Dec 11, 20251 min read
Popular fight night in Juneau celebrates 40th beatdown
Many retirees tend to spend their leisure time volunteering, reading books, or playing pickleball. But, 69-year-old Jack “Jack Hammer” Duckworth spent his Saturday evening in a boxing ring at Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall, facing an opponent half his age. He was there for the AK Beatdown’s 40th fight night in Juneau…( Read full story )
Dec 11, 20251 min read
Republicans in Congress eye more power for states to remove voters
Republicans in Congress want to give states more authority to remove ineligible voters — including noncitizens and people who have moved or died — from voter rolls, seeking to reinforce the Trump administration’s own push to scrub the lists.
Dec 11, 20255 min read
Decision near on 69.92% electricity rate hike challenged by Skagway
Closing arguments were submitted this week in a rate case that could see residential electricity charges in the Upper Lynn Canal climb significantly next year.
Dec 11, 20254 min read
Without completed 2025 reports, federal fishery managers use last year’s data to set Alaska harvests
Government shutdown prevented biologists from completing updated analysis of ocean conditions, so catch limits for groundfish are based on older information Gulls hunting seeking scraps of fish swarm the docked fishing vessel Gold Rush, which harvests pollock and other groundfish, and Trident Seafood's Kodiak plant on Oct. 3, 2022. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council set 2026 Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska catch limits for pollock and other groundfish species, but the
Dec 11, 20255 min read
The governor will spend his final year on a fiscal plan and stabilizing state revenue, not education reform
Dunleavy looks forward to pipeline projects, criticizes the Legislature’s recent focus on school funding rather than policy.
Dec 10, 20255 min read
Eaglecrest opening its beginner hill Saturday, hopes to open upper mountain Dec. 19
Frigid weather forecast as ski area’s 50th season set to begin with "winter preview" on Porcupine lift runs.
Dec 10, 20252 min read
Transboundary salmon runs are at risk — Gov. Dunleavy doesn’t seem to care
On Dec. 5, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Randy Bates published an opinion piece refuting Salmon Beyond Borders’ and the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association’s assertion that the Dunleavy Administration has largely abandoned the promises outlined in the Alaska-British Columbia Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation, signed 10 years ago by the Walker Administration. Clearly, we struck a nerve.
Dec 10, 20254 min read
Retrial of Juneau chiropractor accused of sexual assault likely won’t occur until at least spring
New attorney for Jeffrey Fultz says months are needed to catch up on case involving accusations dating back to 2014; jury deadlocked on most charges at first trial.
Dec 10, 20253 min read
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