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If built, the motoplex would offer different types of racing including drag races, go-kart races, motocross, legends-car races and bicycle races.

If the forecast is accurate, 2019 would be the lowest odd-year pink harvest since 1987. The Department of Fish and Game says the return of warm water temperatures to the North Pacific may have a negative impact on the future survival of pink salmon.

The Alaska Housing Finance Corporation is working with statewide partners to hire a rural homelessness coordinator.

Tamika Ledbetter currently manages the Anchorage/Mat-Su Economic Region for the department.

While it’s customary for new administrations to ask some employees to resign, Dunleavy’s transition broadened the request to include all at-will workers.

Overseas votes that were mailed by Election Day must arrive by Nov. 21, when the final count will happen.

This November has not been promising for snow so far. In general, NOAA data and models call for warmer and wetter conditions this winter in Southeast Alaska.

Alaska Seaplanes is planning to continue offering direct, 55-minute flights between Juneau and Whitehorse for at least the next two seasons.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has said for months that Special Counsel Robert Mueller must be free to continue his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

A former rural educator is about to become Alaska’s next governor. How the Dunleavy administration addresses public education policy is a big question looming over rural schools across the state.

Southcentral Alaska is dealing with a spruce beetle outbreak. The voracious insect damaged nearly 600,000 acres of forest in 2018 and the damage continues to grow. Anchorage has seen a sharp uptick in spruce beetle damage, going from zero acres damaged in 2016 to over one thousand in 2018.

A steep decline in Alaska Native rates of service is due, in part, to changes in recruitment practices at the Alaska National Guard and the military overall.

The transition team said Alaskans can expect a combination of formal events and less formal, family-centered events across the state in December.

Before the election, Gov.-elect Mike Dunleavy said there were “a lot of issues that, in my opinion, are quite frankly and bluntly more important” than Gov. Bill Walker’s Climate Action for Alaska Leadership Team.

The Alaska Court of Appeals affirmed a superior court ruling Friday and will not test DNA evidence in a 36-year-old double murder case in Juneau. Newton Lambert was convicted of the murder of Anne Benolken in 1982 but acquitted in the killing of her husband, James Benolken.

For years, Alaska’s commercial fishing fleet has dreaded a rule that would require an EPA permit for even basic boat discharges, like draining a fish hold or rinsing the deck. Now Congress is on the verge of ditching the requirement forever.

Dunleavy’s pick to become commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, Corri Feige, said close examination of regulations that affect developing natural resources is important.

The three-day language summit brought together nearly 80 speakers of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian languages: Lingít, X̱aad Kíl and Sm’algyax.

If the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is going to hold an oil lease sale in the Beaufort Sea in 2019, the environmental review process needs to start now.

Some residents of Crooked Creek see the potential for much needed economic development while others see the possible disruption of their subsistence lifestyle.