Alaska House lawmakers tweak education bill ahead of final vote expected Wednesday

Alaska House lawmakers made a few changes to a high-priority education bill Monday and Tuesday ahead of a final House vote expected Wednesday. House Bill 69 would boost basic per-student funding in the state’s public school formula — the base student …

Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly: Experts say uncertainty from the Trump administration's federal funding freezes is affecting Alaskans. Also, lawmakers weigh dozens of amendments to a major education bill. And Nome's famed burled arch gets rebuilt …

Linda Boyle: Five-years after first Covid case in Alaska, and still lots of questions

By LINDA BOYLE March 12 marks the five year anniversary of when Covid first entered our state. That case was a cargo jet pilot who was treated locally and then quarantined in a hotel in Anchorage.  Alaska was clearly aware that much like cockroaches, when …

Anchorage judge dismisses lawsuit challenging trans-Alaska gas pipeline on climate grounds

An Anchorage Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline as incompatible with the state constitution. The suit, filed last year, alleges that the founding laws of the Alaska Gasline Development …

Alaska financial advisor talks possible recession in state and nationwide

Reflecting on 50 years of the Alaska State Ombudsman | Talk of Alaska

For 50 years, the state ombudsman’s office has been assisting Alaskans with wide-ranging requests related to government services. From advising on government ethics codes, to investigating the state’s child support division, veteran’s land sales, …

Once again, Alaska will study building a road to Juneau

A decades-old proposal to build a controversial road between Juneau and the communities of Haines and Skagway was put to rest in 2016. But that just changed. The state Department of Transportation and Public Facilities unveiled plans last week to launch a …

Alaska fisher gets six months in federal prison for attempting to kill endangered whale

A federal judge in Juneau has sentenced a Southeast Alaska fisher to six months in federal prison after pleading guilty last year to one count of misreporting a fish catch and one count of violating the Endangered Species Act for directing his crew to kill …

America’s promise to the middle class is broken, in Alaska and across the country

The American Dream: If you work hard you can marry, own a home, raise and educate your children, and decades later retire and not live in poverty. With each generation, the middle class would live a better life than their parents did because each …

Alaska abortion activists target local politics to buck national MAGA tide

Thanks to conservative political momentum at the national level, President Trump is aggressively rolling back federal funding for abortion groups, DEI initiatives and the LGBTQ agenda. This has spurred hard-left groups like Planned Parenthood to fight more …