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Joey Sweet smiles moments after he was selected to serve on the Anchorage Assembly on Jan. 6, 2023. (Wesley Early/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. Friday on Alaska News…

Rep. Mary Peltola was the only member of Congress wearing a kuspuk on the first day of the 2023 session. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) Rep. Mary Peltola was prepared to take her oath of office on Tuesday, to begin her first full term after finishing out the remainder of the late Congressman Don Young’s term.…

The Alaska Capitol in 2021. (Nat Herz/Alaska Public Media) Gov. Mike Dunleavy banned the use of the social media app TikTok on all state-owned devices Friday. In a memo sent to state commissioners and executive staff, Dunleavy cited national security concerns about the app, which is owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance. Last month the…

The ConocoPhillips building in downtown Anchorage. (Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media photo) 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 News Nightly: Day 3 with no house speaker in DC, and lawmakers…

Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola in the halls of the Capitol. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) With Republicans in the U.S. House still unable to elect a speaker, Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola said Thursday that it might be time to start thinking about a bipartisan solution. But, as even she acknowledges, that goes against the grain of…

Michael Yingst looks for eggs at the AC grocery store in Dillingham on Tuesday. (Izzy Ross/KDLG) On a recent, snowy afternoon in Dillingham, Michael Yingst scanned the dairy section at the AC grocery store. “I came here to look for eggs,” he said. “Tomorrow is my birthday and I was hoping to make some banana…

Frozen crab apples collected tall stacks of snow during back-to-back storms in Anchorage. Photographed on Monday, Dec. 12, 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…

A still from an animated scene in “Earnest Drinker,” a documentary film about Alaskans’ relationship with alcohol. (Scott Burton/Earnest Drinker) The New Year is a time of making resolutions to better ourselves, and for many that means quitting drinking, at least for what’s called Dry January. And for some, that means getting on the path…

Forrest Dunbar at an Anchorage Assembly’s committee meeting in June 2021. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Five East Anchorage residents are vying to fill an Assembly seat for roughly three months. The seat belonged to Forrest Dunbar who is now headed to the Alaska Senate. Residents had until Wednesday night to apply for the seat. The…

(Photo by Emily Kwong/KCAW) 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. Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly: Alaskans seeking food stamps run into a huge backlog. No House Speaker means no swearing in yet…

Bering Sea snow crab support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population since 2018 has triggered the first-ever closure of the fishery. (Photo provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Billions of snow crab disappeared from the Bering Sea in the past few years — a crash that’s devastated Alaska’s crab fishing…

Bethel Police Department headquarters (Katie Basile/KYUK) A Bethel woman arrested last week is accused of shooting a taxicab driver in the face a year and a half ago. Bethel police say the assault was considered a “cold case,” but is one of a number of cases they are taking another look at. On July 5,…

A shopper uses gloves while getting groceries at the Fred Meyer on Northern Lights on April 7th, 2020. (Hannah Lies/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. Monday on Alaska News…

An Anchorage Police patrol vehicle is parked outside the Anchorage Police Department Headquarters on a sunny spring day in early May 2021. (Hannah Lies/Alaska Public Media) A man died in a car crash late Sunday in Anchorage that injured two others, according to police. Anchorage police said in a statement that the man, who has…

Residents survey the impacts of a landslide on Gastineau Avenue in Juneau on Sept. 27, 2022. (Photo by Paige Sparks/KTOO) The Juneau Assembly will broach the discussion of adopting new hazard maps again next year after making little progress in 2022. City Manager Rorie Watt said there has been disagreement on one central topic. “Fundamentally,…

An Alaska Airlines employee pushes a dog crate toward the jet on the Dillingham runway. Dec. 28, 2022. (Isabelle Ross/KDLG) Alaska Airlines’ Dillingham route is back on track after it canceled flights on Monday and Tuesday due to broken de-icing equipment. Clarks Point school principal Angelia Kelly was one of the people waiting for a…

A typical December on the island brings about 6 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service, but Unalaska has already received more than 10 inches this month. (Theo Greenly/KUCB) Gussie Dushkin and Brian Hatch’s house is in downtown Unalaska, near Unalaska Lake. Dushkin has lived in the house for about 40 years, and…

Kodiak’s Benny Benson Airport on Dec. 27, 2022 after days of storms and canceled flights. (Kirsten Dobroth/KMXT) Many travelers are still trying to get home after a major winter storm slammed the Lower 48 and disrupted travel across the country over the weekend. Ferries and flights to and from Kodiak Island were also delayed – leading to…

Caribou cross through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in their 2012 spring migration. The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, long one of the largest in North America, has declined precipitously and is now at the lowest size since the early 1980s. The herd’s range includes Gates of the Arctic. (Zak Richter/National Park Service)…

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge sprawls to the shoreline of the Beaufort Sea, seen here in 2006. Oil development has been proposed for the refuge’s coastal plain. (Photo by Steve Hillebrand,/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Alaska’s state-owned development bank is continuing its efforts to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to…