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Judy Eledge, then acting library director, at a special Anchorage Assembly meeting on Oct. 14, 2021. The Assembly is considering a resolution Tuesday calling on Eledge, now the deputy library director, to resign. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Two members of the Anchorage Assembly say they have no confidence in Deputy Library Director Judy Eledge and…

Amanda Dale spends her time tending to her seven-month-old baby, Lena. Dale also has a three-year-old boy who has been on waitlists for child care ever since he was born, and it has been a struggle finding an opening in Anchorage for her son. (Mizelle Mayo/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send…

National Park Service officials shot this photo of the West Ridge of Moose’s Tooth during a search for two missing climbers from a high-altitude helicopter on Sunday. The red box indicates the rough location of boot tracks that led into a small avalanche. (National Park Service photo) A search is underway for two climbers in…

On Friday, World Health Organization director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated: “With great hope, I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency.” (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) The World Health Organization has lifted the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) for COVID-19. In a press conference on Friday, director general Tedros…

Nancy Burke recently left her position at the United Way of Anchorage as the senior special assistant to the CEO for housing and COVID-19 response. She’ll use her years of housing and homelessness expertise to become the CEO of St. Francis Center in Denver. (Photo courtesy of the United Way of Anchorage) Nancy Burke has…

An aerial view along the coast at Unalakleet. (Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media) Help is on the way for Unalakleet in having local access to drinking water restored. The House Community and Regional Affairs Committee took testimony on Tuesday regarding the Village Safe Water program. The program assists rural communities in developing sustainable water delivery and sanitation facilities. According to…

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Sen. Katie Britt, R- Ala., Sen, Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Sen, Chris Murphy, D-Conn. are pushing a new bipartisan bill focused on online safety for kids. (Keren Carrión/NPR) The mental-health crisis facing America’s teenagers is motivating an unusual group of senators — two progressive Democrats and a pair of conservative Republicans…

An image of the slide zone from a Thursday avalanche in Denali National Park that killed staff member Eric Walter. (From Denali National Park) Denali National Park and Preserve employee died when he was caught in an avalanche while skiing in the backcountry, not far from the park’s entrance, officials said Friday. Eric Walter, who…

King salmon landed in the commercial troll fishery in the summer of 2019. (Courtesy Matt Lichtenstein) A federal judge in Washington state issued a ruling this week that threatens to shut down trolling for king salmon in Southeast Alaska this summer. The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed three years ago by a Washington-based conservation…

Federal and state researchers in Kodiak hope work being done in the lab will provide more information about how Bering Sea crab populations handle climate change. (Elyssa Loughlin/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…

The Cortys told prospective investors that the value of their shares in Ice Fog Holdings — the company that would develop the marijuana theme park on the site of the old Midway Lodge — would grow rapidly. The structure is located at milepost 315 Richardson Highway in Salcha. (Alaska Alcohol And Marijuana Control Office) The…

Anchorage City Hall on a sunny day. (Hannah Lies/Alaska Public Media) The Municipality of Anchorage has a new human resources director. Mayor Dave Bronson has named Tyler Anderson to head the city’s HR department.  According to his resume, Anderson comes to the municipality after working at Chugach Electric for 14 years in employee relations. He…

The Norwegian Bliss, a 4,000-passenger cruise ship out of Seattle, kicked off Juneau’s 2023 cruise season when it docked on April 17. (Photo by Anna Canny/KTOO) Cruise ship season in Alaska kicked off April 17 when the Norwegian Bliss docked in Juneau. The state’s capital is also its busiest cruise port, and locals are bracing…

Metlakatla is seen in the distance in 2020 from a turnout on Walden Point Road. (Eric Stone/KRBD) A Metlakatla woman is in custody on murder charges, after local police say she killed her 3-year-old son and her adult brother last month by driving into them after an alcohol-fueled party. Twenty-seven-year-old Alecia Henderson faces several charges…

The proposed Pebble Mine site, pictured in 2014. (Jason Sear/KDLG) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will reconsider certain aspects of the Pebble company’s permit application to build a large gold and copper mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay. The 81-page report comes just three months after the Environmental Protection Agency vetoed the mine in a…

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Tuesday that the department’s investigative operation targeting fentanyl and opioid traffickers on the dark web resulted in a record number of arrests and seizures. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it’s made a record number of arrests and seizures in a coordinated international effort to target fentanyl…

Two homeless residents walk away from the Sullivan Arena shelter on May 1, 2023, when capacity was slashed to a quarter of its winter capacity. Before the scale-down, the Alaska Coalition to End Homelessness provided blue tote bags with sleeping bags, a waterproof document container, food and personal hygiene kits. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) On…