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Yago Jacob of Napaskiak, one of the Calista shareholders employed at the Donlin Mine, holds up a sliced piece of a geological core on Aug. 11, 2022. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Three Alaska Native tribes, with the help of the environmental law firm Earthjustice, sued the federal government on Tuesday, seeking to block development…

The American island of Little Diomede, Alaska, left, and on the right, the Russian island of Big Diomede, are seen from the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica in the Bering Strait, on July 14, 2017. (David Goldman/AP) The Alaska Air National Guard this week traveled nearly 660 miles to rescue a pregnant woman on a small…

Anchorage City Hall on Dec. 8, 2020. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) The Anchorage Assembly on Friday suspended the municipality’s sister city relationship with Magadan in Russia’s Far East in protest of Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine.  The action comes more than a year after Russia invaded Ukraine and Gov. Mike Dunleavy called on Alaska cities…

The boardwalk to high ground in Hooper Bay was wiped away by floodwaters. (Photo by Will McCarthy/KYUK) The state of Alaska recently received $38 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development with the aim to ease the burden of climate change. Margaret Salazar is HUD’s Northwest Regional Administrator. She oversees HUD programs in…

Anna Liljedahl on a research trip on Jarvis Glacier in the eastern Alaska range. Liljedahl is working to install a weather station on the glacier to model glacial melt. (Courtesy Todd Paris/UAF) 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…

Anchorage’s Acting Municipal Attorney Anne Helzer addresses a question during an Anchorage Assembly meeting at the Loussac Library on March 22, 2023, in this video still. Attorney Anne Helzer was appointed to lead the Municipality of Anchorage’s legal department in February as it juggled multiple high-profile legal fights from the Anchorage Assembly and former employees. …

A Solid Waste Services’ truck picks up organics bins. (Erin McKinstry/Alaska Public Media) The Municipality of Anchorage’s Solid Waste Services director resigned on Thursday. It’s the second resignation announcement in Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration in as many days.  Dan Zipay’s resignation from the head of the city’s garbage utility follows Chief of Staff Adam Trombley’s…

Surveillance footage showed Aaron Mileur and his cousin in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. (From DOJ sentencing memo) A Wasilla man sentenced for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 is asking a judge to loosen a condition of his probation.  He wants to be allowed a firearm, to protect himself from moose. …

Police patrol cars sit in a row at the station in downtown Anchorage on August 31, 2022. (Valerie Kern/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. Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly:…

Della Carl, Lisa Charles, and Carolyn George spoke about the unsettling realities of living with climate change at the Arctic Encounter Symposium in Anchorage. (Emily Schwing/KYUK) Three Alaska Native women from the Y-K Delta delivered a powerful story about the impacts of climate change and village relocation to hundreds of international dignitaries and federal officials…

Police patrol cars. (Valerie Kern/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage police officials say the timeline to put body cameras on officers has hit another delay, and some Assembly members say they may need to take a more hands-on approach to get the cameras implemented.  Community members are tired of waiting, said Assemblyman Kevin Cross. “I’ve been telling my…

U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola joined host Lori Townsend on “Talk of Alaska” for a discussion about the issues facing Alaskans on April 4, 2023 (Matt Faubion/AKPM) Congresswoman Mary Peltola declined again Tuesday to pass judgment on the case against former President Donald Trump. “I personally feel like, as a member of the legislative branch, it’s…

Anchorage resident Scott Brown casts his vote in the city election at the Loussac Library ballot box on Monday. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) Tuesday, April 4, is the last day to vote in Anchorage’s by-mail municipal election. The ballots are long this year, with questions on some filling up all four sides of two ballot…

Political campaign signs at the intersection of 100th Avenue and Minnesota Drive in Anchorage on Monday, April. Anchorage Daily News photographer Loren Holmes reported being assaulted here while on assignment on Friday. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) A masked man assaulted an Anchorage Daily News photographer on Friday afternoon while he was on assignment, looking at…

A police car at Harborview Elementary in Juneau on March 31, 2023. Juneau police increased their presence at schools after threatening notes were left around town. (Jennifer Pemberton/KTOO) On Sunday, Juneau police arrested Mitchell Watley in connection with notes posted around town that malign the transgender community and “contained a possible threat against children.” Watley is widely known as the…

Map and gear, photo courtesy of Paul Twardock. It is nearly April and the days are getting longer, the sun is stronger and the snow is quickly melting. The first migratory birds are showing up and bear tracks have been sighted in the Chugach. All that means is it’s time to dust off the backpacks,…

Federal law enforcement is investigating a group of 33 swimmers who allegedly harassed a pod of dolphins in Hawaii, the state’s Department of Land and Natural Resources said this week. Drone videos and photographs allegedly show the group swimming in the Hōnaunau Bay on Sunday and “​​aggressively pursuing, corralling, and harassing the pod,” the DLNR…