Alaska News

Households can order four rapid tests, which the Postal Service says will be shipped for free “in late January.”

One Alaska state ferry collided with another while docking in Ketchikan early on Jan. 14, causing some damage but no reported injuries.

Kinross Gold plans to run up to 192 trucks a day along the route, each pulling two trailers and weighing some 70 tons.

The Skagway Traditional Council is asking harvesters to avoid blue mussels until the population rebounds.

Thirty-two attorneys volunteered to work with clients on civil issues including family law, employment law, estate planning and landlord and tenant law.

The corporation’s board of trustees chair maintained that Rodell was an at-will state employee but declined to give details about why she was fired.

Hours before tsunami waves arrived, sounds from the eruption reached Alaskans from Juneau to the Aleutians.

Alaska Native students are vastly underrepresented on college campuses. When it comes to STEM — fields that are especially dominated by white men — Alaska Native students face even greater barriers.

Forage fish, some seabirds and humpback whales in Prince William Sound all seemed to see declines related to warm temperatures. Herring, on the other hand, thrive in warmer water.

The National Park Service is looking at building a bridge over the landslide.

Southeast Conference Executive Director Robert Venables says the idea is to create a co-op facility that would be shared by a number of mariculture firms.

The school’s outdoor exploration class is not unique in Alaska. But to many readers of the New York Times, which recently published a story about the class’s successful hunt, it was a surprising and unfamiliar topic.

There has been very little contact with Tonga since Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai erupted.

Beavers are moving to the Arctic as the Alaska tundra heats up and the beaver population rebounds after centuries of trapping. A study published in December shows the small, industrious mammal is accelerating climate change in the north.

Environmental groups, Alaska Native tribes and the Tanana Chiefs Conference have filed lawsuits challenging the adequacy of the federal review of the Ambler Road.

Alaskans are advised to move away from boats, marinas, and low-lying coastal areas as waves of around one foot — enough to cause dangerous currents — have already arrived in the Aleutians.

The abrupt firing of Permanent Fund Corporation Director Angela Rodell in December surprised and concerned many Alaskans, including some lawmakers.

With the omicron variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly in Alaska, contact tracing is increasingly difficult. A new feature for Alaska smartphones could help.

While 957 flu cases are a lot compared to last year, it’s dwarfed by an average, pre-pandemic, Alaska year.

A spokesperson said DOT is well aware of problems with the Wolff Point slope and that it was one of many sites in Southeast with rockfall issues.