14+ hour, 52+ min ago  (200+ words) Cybercrime in Alaska has exploded in the last decade. The FBI reports a jump of more than 50 percent between 2024 and 2025, causing Alaskans to lose 40 million dollars. The big uptick in cybercrime | Talk of Alaska Cybercrime in Alaska has exploded in…...

4+ hour, 6+ min ago  (435+ words) Two Anchorage Assembly members have a proposal meant to make it easier to build in a city that needs more affordable housing. Assembly member Erin Baldwin Day and co-sponsor George Martinez introduced the ordinance at an Assembly meeting on June…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (217+ words) The Juneau Assembly passed a resolution Thursday declaring a local emergency in anticipation of the annual glacial outburst flood expected later this summer. Since the catastrophic 2024 flood impacted around 300 homes in the Mendenhall Valley, the city has been operating under…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1396+ words) Alaska's acting attorney general filed an emergency petition with the Alaska Supreme Court to compel the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District to open a charter school whose application the district previously denied. The petition comes one day after a…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (167+ words) Alaska State Troopers recovered the body of an Anchorage paddleboarder who went missing in Turnagain Arm after a weekend-long search. The U. S. Coast Guard, the Girdwood Fire Department and members of the Alaska Dive Search Rescue and Recovery Team searched for…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (616+ words) The Alaska Legislature kicked off its second consecutive special session on Saturday, a day after Gov. Mike Dunleavy and key members of the House said the Senate's version of a bill offering tax relief to the Alaska LNG project was…...

4+ day, 48+ min ago  (877+ words) The Alaska Senate plans to vote today on a new draft of a bill that would reduce taxes on the Alaska LNG project. It's the last day of a special session Gov. Mike Dunleavy called to consider the issue. Dunleavy…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (655+ words) Members of the Alaska Senate's bipartisan majority caucus spent Thursday in another round of closed-door talks discussing a bill that passed the state House offering tax breaks for the Alaska LNG project. It was the penultimate day of a special…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (748+ words) Western Alaska residents are preparing for an extended period of extra high fuel prices, after the war with Iran drove up the cost of energy globally. That's despite a tentative peace deal that brought some relief to global oil markets…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (372+ words) Firefighters have significantly slowed the spread of a wildfire that broke out Wednesday night on the Kenai Peninsula in Sterling. The blaze, now called the Grandview Fire, grew from eight to 50 acres over about seven hours near the intersection of…...