With 95% of expected vote counted as of Friday night, all contests on Juneau’s municipal election ballot appear to be decided.

Another survey expected in January may reveal the full scope of the price spike in rural Alaska caused by the Iran war.

Measles cases for the calendar year surpassed 4,000 for the first time in decades, with as many as five deaths in Pennsylvania, as the federal government steps in with financial help for states but also fans vaccination fears and skepticism.

Back in the early ‘60s when I was just becoming politically aware, my father told me earnestly that the real difference between U.S. representatives and senators was, “the House members think about the next election, you want senators that think about the next generation.”

JPD reports suspect had been walking around armed for hours before entering building; first floor evacuated during incident lasting about two hours, no injuries reported.

Well drilling and other exploration activities in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska will no longer need to undergo individual analysis, under a new BLM rule.

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Big weaponry makes big impression, but ship named after Alaska senator ‘is the most technologically advanced and there are things that we just need people not to see,’ master-at-arms says.

Bycatch — marine life caught unintentionally while fishers target something else — makes up 2% of the pollock fishery’s total catch. At the scale of a fishery that harvests billions of pounds of pollock annually, that can mean hundreds of thousands of salmon. Over the last 10 years, Bering Sea pollock trawlers caught an average of about 18,000 Chinook and 288,000 other salmon a year, nearly all of them chum.

Many Alaskans might think Sen. Lisa Murkowski didn’t attend last week’s White House announcement about Alaska’s LNG pipeline because of her combative relationship with President Donald Trump. But I suspect she knew that the U.S. and South Korea governments had not reached an agreement and chose not to participate in an “unprecedented” use of the White House as a prop for a campaign event.

Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her efforts to promote international law as it comes under attack.

October is Filipino American History Month – a time to reflect on the history of Filipinos in Alaska and across the country…(Read full story)