Alaska News

Ravenna Koeniq of Alaska’s Energy Desk shares her impressions of spending time in the North Slope community, and what has happened since residents changed the name from Barrow to Utqiaġvik over a year ago.

Daily bag and possession limit is two king salmon of any size in the hatchery terminal areas of Lena Cove, Auke Bay, Fritz Cove, and the northern half of Gastineau Channel down to the bridge.Outside the hatchery areas the limit is one fish.

Changes are coming to the Iditarod’s board of directors. According to a press release, the board of the Iditarod Trail Committee approved expanding its numbers from nine to 12 earlier this month. And several directors may step down.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski is calling on the Trump administration to stop separating children from their parents when families are caught crossing the southern border.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers have beefed up their guidelines for wetlands mitigation in Alaska, elaborating on ways a developer can compensate for disturbing bogs, ponds and streams.

The nonprofit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council plans to start running the city’s Centennial Hall convention center by July 1. Both sides say a contract is expected to be finalized by the end of the week.

The issue at the core of the Sturgeon case is a fight over control of rivers in Alaska.

Police are investigating the report of gunfire this weekend near a problem property on Harris Street. Police say the 42-year-old man complained about loud noise. During a verbal altercation, the man and one of the visitors fired guns.

Electricity rates in Juneau are coming down by 6.73 percent. That’s because of a tax windfall realized by Alaska Electric Light & Power whose rates are regulated by the state.

Alaska’s economy could suffer as a result of China’s 25 percent tariff on American seafood imports and that worries U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski. In a written statement, Murkowski urges President Donald Trump to reach a trade policy with China that protects the export market.

A respiratory pathogen that scientists previously believed to be restricted to sheep and goats has been detected in moose and caribou in Alaska.

Juneau residents gathered at Savikko Park this weekend to celebrate the region’s mining and logging industries once again.

Last weekend, the Fortress of the Bear in Sitka released Smokey, Bandit and Tuli into expanded territory. They’re no longer cubs, so they need more range to explore.

With the help of parents, professional movers and a dozen or so football players, the Juneau Community Charter School moved desk by desk into Juneau Douglas High School.

Voters soundly rejected a previous proposal for a second crossing linking Douglas Island and the mainland in 2010.

Recent research by a University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student has turned up a shift in diet in the Cook Inlet belugas that may help explain part of the decline. 

“Barrow” is everywhere while walking around town: on the fire trucks, in the name of the high school, the local utility company, on the North Slope Borough’s official logo. But the name “Utqiaġvik” is showing up, as well. It’s on City Hall and on municipal department letterhead.

For good and for bad, king salmon runs around Petersburg are coming in as forecast so far this year. Anglers have only been allowed to keep chinook salmon in a limited few areas with hatchery kings for the first part of this month.

The sculpture’s scale is impressive. The mound is 42 feet tall and almost as wide. It’s light brown and formed with different-sized panels made of salvaged Alaskan yellow cedar. They’re curved and splattered with small holes.

Jill Yordy has been waiting since January to learn whether her 5-year-old daughter Raven has qualified for Denali KidCare.