The proposal presented in Monday night’s committee meeting would abandon existing land use restrictions for hazard zones altogether.
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Northern Alaska cable break repaired after 14 weeks of internet outages
GCI announced the repairs in an email to customers Monday, 14 weeks after the cable was cut in an ice scouring event in the Arctic Ocean west of Prudhoe Bay.
Volunteers hope for city support with cleaning up Douglas Island graveyards
The volunteers say they can only do so much to fight the rainforest’s creep. Some of them wonder what the city could do to help.
Juneau Assembly candidates call for collaboration at Tlingit and Haida forum
Friday’s forum came the day after ballots were mailed to registered voters.
As Alaska works through Medicaid renewals, only about a third of people are staying covered
In two months, 13,000 Alaskans have lost coverage for paperwork problems — enough that the federal government has asked the state to pause dropping people for paperwork reasons because too many children may be losing coverage.
Mount Shishaldin simmers down after explosive eruption
The eruption sent an ash cloud across the eastern Aleutians.