Alaska News

There’s a traditional foods movement happening in Alaska. Dieticians, administrators, and others are trying to get more wild foods like moose, berries, and beach greens into health care facilities and schools. But there’s one food that elders really, really want, and they aren’t allowed to have: seal oil.

Juneau’s marijuana industry says that will allow exports across Alaska. The move reverses a policy of flagging commercial marijuana that had resulted in the passenger being denied boarding.

The Alaska Public Offices Commission has decided Skagway Assemblyman Dan Henry did not violate state law by failing to document gifts on financial disclosure forms. APOC said hotel stays weren’t gifts to Henry, but to Skagway.

A City and Borough of Juneau lawsuit filed against the owners of an apartment building that had to be demolished with city funds has been scheduled to go to trial Aug. 13.

After signing in, Ray Redington Jr. and all 16 of his dogs pulled in for a rest at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Just one minute behind him was Mats Pettersson, who led the full pack of mushers for a stretch of the evening before being overtaken not long before arriving.

An ordinance that would give the city manager broad authority to override the public process when siting public facilities failed on a 6-3 vote.

The heads of four departments: Community Development, Engineering, Parks and Recreation and the Clerk’s Office are retiring this year. The city is actively recruiting for at least two of the positions.

Rep. Ivy Spohnholz wrote on Twitter that she is home with her family recuperating from a pulmonary embolism.

The Juneau-based ship will miss sailings to and from Gustavus, Hoonah, Haines and Skagway.

There’s been more snowfall than what was typical a few decades ago. Moose can handle heavy snow, but their environment appears to be changing.

Responders collected six bags of oil and are using containment booms on the remaining waste. No oiled wildlife has been reported and response crews are looking into cleaning up debris.

Anchorage police say three people found dead in a car outside a Spenard hotel early Monday died from carbon monoxide poisoning or drug abuse.

Ninety people focused on funding services. Most of the other 11 asked for spending cuts.

Alaska State Troopers are investigating the deaths of two people whose bodies were found at a campground north of Talkeetna.

Allen Moore, sometimes known as the Southern Gentleman of Mushing is an elite sled dog runner, who’s path from small-town Arkansas to mushing fame surprises even him.

Since 2014, the state has recruited citizen scientists to monitor bats in Southeast Alaska, and discoveries are being made. For example, last summer, the state recorded the first documentation of swarming behavior outside of a cave or mine.

If the Kodiak Island Borough School District doesn’t get the funds it’s requesting from the borough it’ll have to cut about 14 teaching positions

Set up for Saturday’s ceremonial Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race start in Anchorage means dumping thousands of pounds of snow on downtown streets.

Record low levels of ice have changed how the Bering Sea looks throughout the year. Now, scientists want to know if that will also change how the sea sounds. 

Juneau Rep. Sam Kito III has introduced legislation that’s part of a larger plan to restructure ferry funding and management. One measure would move nearly $200 million from the Alaska Permanent Fund’s earnings reserve into a ferry operations account.