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Gov. Mike Dunleavy listens to a question during a news conference announcing his budget proposal on Dec. 14, 2023. (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 Public Media on Facebook and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. And subscribe to the Alaska News Nightly podcast. Thursday on Alaska…

Gov. Mike Dunleavy listens to a question during a news conference announcing his budget proposal on Dec. 14, 2023. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced a $10.5 billion budget for the next fiscal year on Thursday. The spending plan includes a large permanent fund dividend but relies on savings to fill a deficit…

A man in Star Trek pajamas lights a candle on a menorah. The lighting tradition is a callback to the lighting of the holy temple’s menorah, which stayed lit for eight days on a single day’s supply of oil. The pajamas are a newer twist. (Young Kim/Alaska Public Media) Carrying boxes and trays of food,…

Jim Lanier handling his dogs at the Finger Lake checkpoint during the 2018 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, in his protective mountain biking gear. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/ Alaska Public Media) Alaska State Troopers say the driver of a snowmachine that hit a dog team on the Denali Highway Monday, killing three dogs, is a…

Hunter Biden, son of President Biden, says he is willing to appear before an open hearing of the House Oversight Committee but did not appear at a scheduled closed-door session. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) The House of Representatives has voted along party lines to formalize an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, as House Republicans intensify…

As the permafrost thaws, Kongiganak’s cemetery is turning into swampland. Community members are now laying their loved ones to rest on raised platforms above ground. (Photo Teresa Cotsirilos/KYUK) 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…

Iditarod musher Jim Lanier at the 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ceremonial start in Anchorage Saturday, March 7, 2020. (Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media) There has been another deadly accident involving a dog team and snowmachine on the Denali Highway. Three sled dogs died from injuries sustained in the collision about two miles east of…

Alaska’s Department of Public Safety commissioner James Cockrell (left) and the department’s interim head of the Village Public Safety Officer program Joel Ward (right) at a Nov. 8, 2023 town hall in Dillingham. (Christina McDermott/KDLG) Between the years 2021 and 2022, Alaska’s overdose deaths nearly doubled from the previous five-year average. James Cockrell, the commissioner for the…

Quinhagak, Alaska on April 19, 2023 (Gabby Salgado / KYUK) 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. Monday on Alaska News Nightly: Much of the community of Quinhagak has been without power since…

Salmon fisherman stack their nets on June 22, 2023, in Kodiak, Alaska. A group of lawmakers from New England and Alaska introduced a proposal Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, that says a federal program that protects the health and wellbeing of commercial fishermen should be expanded to include substance use disorder and worker fatigue. (AP Photo/Joshua…

The fin whale washed up on her own without needing to be dragged higher onto the beach. (Courtesy Matt Van Daele/Sun’aq Tribe) A fin whale washed up in the Pasagshak State Recreation Area, near the end of Kodiak Island’s road system, late last month. It’s unclear how it died, but the whale was in remarkably…

Local gift shops in downtown Anchorage on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) For many consumers, the bulk of holiday shopping is done during Thanksgiving weekend, and Americans are on track for another year of record spending. The post-Thanksgiving “Small Business Saturday” is a marketing effort to get shoppers to direct some of…

The path of Haines’ Dec. 6, 2020 landslide, which killed two people. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO) It has been three years since landslides took the lives of two Haines residents and wreaked havoc in town. All residents were affected in one way or another. The recent deadly landslide in Wrangell can trigger that past trauma. KHNS spoke with the…

File photo of an Anchorage police vehicle (Valerie Lake / Alaska Public Media). An Anchorage man is charged with murdering his pregnant girlfriend’s unborn child in an assault at their home in April. A local grand jury indicted 21-year-old Iohani Wilhem Dean on Wednesday. He faces three counts of murder of an unborn child, plus…

U.S. Capitol (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) Alaska’s U.S. senators are trying to block the Environmental Protection Agency from launching a procedure that would lead to the regulation and eventual removal of leaded aviation gasoline. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan this week filed a resolution to reverse an EPA regulatory finding that aircraft burning leaded…

People filled vases with flowers at a vigil in honor of those affected by domestic violence on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 in Bethel. (Sunni Bean/KYUK) Alaska has some of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country, with studies finding that almost half of women in the state have been victims in their lifetime.…

Fighter, support and transport aircraft assigned to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson fill a runway during a 2020 “elephant walk” demonstration. (From Staff Sgt. Curt Beach/U.S. Air Force) Alaska military leaders are encouraging service members based in the state to fill out a survey that will show how a recent cut in overseas cost-of-living allowances has reduced…

Fr. Michael James Oleksa is seen while giving an interview at St. Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral on July 5, 2021. (Simon Scionka/Sacred Alaska Film) 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. Friday on…

Students in a second grade classroom at Ptarmigan Elementary School in Anchorage receive instruction from student teacher Erisa Koci on Sept. 29, 2023. (Tim Rockey/Alaska Public Media) Alaska spends a lot of money on education – roughly 40% more than the national average per student. But research presented by the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute…

Fr. Michael James Oleksa is seen while giving an interview at St. Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral on July 5, 2021. (Simon Scionka/Sacred Alaska Film) The Anchorage Daily News dubbed Father Michael Oleksa one of Alaska’s great communicators, but the Russian Orthodox priest’s voice went silent last month after he died of a stroke on Nov.…

Juneau City Manager Katie Koester writes a list of ways the city could limit cruise ship tourism at a Juneau Assembly retreat on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) 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…