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With five weeks remaining before summer break, the Kenai Peninsula Borough mayor is publicly challenging the school district on its COVID-19 mitigation protocols. Mayor Charlie Pierce has long been an advocate of keeping mask-wearing a personal choice and opening the peninsula to business as usual amid coronavirus-induced closures. He turned his focus to the school…

Last year, all climbing permits in Denali National Park were suspended.

The end of the month is the deadline for the Legislature to pass a bill — and for Dunleavy to sign it — or low-income Alaskans will lose $8 million in additional food aid. 

Cook Inlet has some of the largest tides in the world, but so far their energy potential has been left untapped.

The last time the pipe leaked, in 2017, Hilcorp didn’t complete repairs for three months, citing danger from ice in the inlet.

All eight candidates will meet with UAA students and staff and attend community forums next week.

The ruling reverses a Superior Court decision that 94 positions filled by Dunleavy appointees had been vacated in December. 

The gathering was in the gymnasium in the Terry Miller Legislative Office Building, which is across 5th Street from the Capitol. 

While there have been some significant changes to what Dunleavy proposed, they’re far less extensive than the changes two years ago.

The Hatcher Pass Avalanche Center says five different avalanches crossed the upper stretch of the road.