Elizabeth Jenkins, Alaska's Energy Desk - Juneau

The proposed ordinance would have allowed ATVs and other off highway vehicles on borough streets with a number of conditions.

Sitka may finally get a new seaplane base that has been in the works on and off for the last two decades.

Environmental groups increasingly tried to get the word out to encourage people to weigh-in. Those conversations have taken place in physical spaces and also, increasingly, online.

The generator would produce an estimated 58,200 megawatt hours a year. That’s more than two-and-a-half times the region’s current energy needs.

With warmer conditions, there’s less dissolved oxygen in the water. Salmon can have a tougher chance at survival.

The state of Alaska used more than $200,000 of that federal grant money, typically designated for fire prevention, to pay an industry group for more perspective on economic timber sales.