Biggest winners in the 2014 election cycle: The TV stations. With over $60 million being spent in the U.S. Senate race alone, Alaska’s TV stations had...
Rural Alaska Oil Prices Will Not Be Dropping
Oil prices continue to fall, with Brent crude around $56 per barrel and gasoline dipping below $3 per gallon around the state. But even as crude price...
Arctic Shipping Is Not Booming
The year 2014 has proved to be a slow one for Arctic shipping. Just 31 ships sailed between Europe and Asia across the Northern Sea Route, and 22 did ...
Alaskan Brewing Co. Plays Leading Role In Beer Craft
There are no roads leading to Juneau, Alaska. There’s little flat land, and the region can’t grow grain or hops. Most resources must be shipped in and...
Anchorage Becomes Global Warming’s New Poster Child
This is an admittedly arbitrary metric. Zero degrees Fahrenheit is significantly colder than zero degrees Celsius, the freezing point of water. Anchor...
Time to Gather Signatures for Anti-Corruption
A ballot initiative that would make it a felony for legislators to vote on bills that would financially benefit themselves, their families, or their e...
Walker Doesn’t Quite Recuse Himself from Pt. Thomson
Gov. Bill Walker has delegated his authority on the Point Thomson lawsuit to his lieutenant governor, while still leaving open the possibility of his ...
Commissioner of Admin and Education Named
Governor Bill Walker is pleased to announce the appointment of Sheldon Fisher as Commissioner of the Department of Administration. “Sheldon has 20 yea...
Delay Marijuana Regs Four Years — Just Joking
After considering a delay in legal marijuana sales, Gov. Bill Walker has confirmed that implementation of rules regulating the drug should meet the sc...
Five Reasons Why the Senate ‘Torture’ Report Became a Flop
By Fred Fleitz Congressional Democrats, leftwing groups, and the mainstream media were certain this month’s Senate Intelligence Committee report on th...
While Sarah Promotes Christmas, Media Goes Monkey on Her Wardrobe
On a recent episode of her online TV news channel for the promotion of her new book, Palin supposedly suffered a wardrobe oops moment. A video of the ...
Alaska’s Warmest but Minnesota’s Coldest
Minnesota’s coldest year in 18 years A swath of negative numbers blankets Minnesota as the season’s coldest air mass to date sags south from Canada. W...
Governor Halts Six Big Alaska Projects
Governor Bill Walker issued an administrative order Governor Halts Projects on Friday, December 26, to direct all state agencies to stop non-obligated...
win cash instantly online | “The Crunch Is Coming” for Oil-Rich States
Experts and elected officials say an extended downturn in oil prices seems unlikely to create the economic disasters that accompanied the 1980s oil bu...
Alaska Culture Now Being Covered by Al Jazeera
Alaska is in the midst of a reality television boom that began in 2005 with the premiere of “Deadliest Catch” and was supercharged by a tax credit pro...
Husband, the Writer, and Wife, the Artist, Honored Together
First, Soos found out in a phone call that he’d been named the new Alaska State Writer Laureate as part of the Governors Awards for the Arts for 2015....
Walk through the Governor’s Mansion with Bill and First Lady Donna
Alaska Governor Bill Walker and First Lady Donna Walker take you on a video tour of the "People's House"- the Governor's residence in Juneau- and shar...
Mike Gravel: Inform the Public What the Government Is Doing
Mike Gravel, former U.S. senator for Alaska from 1969-81, is best known for his release of the Pentagon Papers into the public record. As a junior sen...
Should Be a No-Brainer: Keep Office Expenses Separate
“There is some interest in changing” how the allowance is paid, according to a survey distributed to lawmakers by the office of Kodiak Sen. Gary Steve...
Is Santa a Republican or a Democrat?
Santa Claus is clearly a Republican. He actually delivers what he promises. Santa is definitely a Democrat. While he’s not a participant in the ...
Assembly to Garner Ideas from Citizens on Pot Regulations
Just a week after a vote shooting down a controversial proposal to ban commercialization of marijuana within Anchorage, the city Assembly is forming a...
Governor Walker Signs LNG Agreement
Governor Bill Walker at noon Tuesday will take an important step forward in securing Alaska’s energy future by signing a liquefied natural gas agreeme...
The Who’s Who List at Alaska’s Christmas Parties
This weekend, the first weekend after Congress adjourned for the break, Sen. Murkowski opted for the relatively urban, friendly confines of Anchorage,...
We Are a Purple State
Our election process is in deep trouble. No cause is more important today than salvaging our democracy, which slides toward plutocracy through increas...
Climate Change Poster Child in Shishmaref
Based on a comparison of aerial photos, the Army Corps of Engineers estimates that the island is losing between 2.7 and 8.9 feet a year, on average. B...
New Department of Labor Commissioner Named
Gov. Bill Walker has named Heidi Drygas as his new labor commissioner, adding another Fairbanksan to a prominent position in his administration. Dryga...
Alaska’s within “Spitting Distance” of North Korea
Murkowski said she is especially concerned as an Alaskan, since North Korea is located relatively close to the state. “For us in Alaska, North Korea i...
Susitna Dam Riddled with Major Questions
Wayne Dyok and other officials with the project set 87 river miles north of Talkeetna also said this week that the cost estimate for the Susitna-Watan...
2014 Was a Year of Financial Stability for University
The university’s vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer, Ashok K. Roy, presented the 2014 financial report to...
$8.75 starts Feb. 24
Alaska’s minimum wage will go up by a $1 an hour, to $8.75 an hour, starting Feb. 24. Since the constitution calls for ballot measures to take e...
Federal Budget Cuts Out Pipeline Coordinator’s Office
The office of the federal coordinator for Alaska gas pipeline projects is shutting down after not being included in the budget bill that Congress rece...
Alaska’s Credit Outlook Drops Due to Oil Price Dip
The outlook on Alaska’s credit rating was changed to negative by Moody’s Investors Service as slumping crude oil prices cut into the state’s revenue. ...
Annual Fees Go Up on January 1
Fees for overnight camping and boat launching and the cost of annual passes for parking and boat launching at Alaska state park facilities will increa...
Feds Sue Owner of Sunken Alaska Ship that Cost $1.6M to Recover
A gold dredge captain who appeared on Discovery’s “Bering Sea Gold” faces a federal lawsuit that claims it cost $1.6 million to reco...
Amanda Coyne Interviews First Lady Donna Walker
We’ve heard a lot about Bill Walker, but I wanted to hear more about his wife Donna. I wanted to meet her. I hardly knew anything about her. And if I ...
Mining Road for Lucrative Project Cut from Governor’s Budget
Tribal leaders and stakeholders representing communities that could be impacted by a proposed 220-mile industrial road gathered in Fairbanks to discus...
Obama Saves, Protects, Bans, Issues, Moves, Rules Out, Says No… QUIETLY
Huffington Post: Obama Bars Oil And Gas Development In Alaska’s Bristol Bay Washington Post: Obama bans drilling in ...
Rural Customers Will See 11% Power Cost Hike
Thousands of rural Alaskans will see their power bills go up after the first of the year. That’s because the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, or RCA, ...
Anchorage Accepts the Statewide Marijuana Initiative
The Anchorage Assembly’s vote last night to uphold the state’s timetable for developing commercial marijuana guidelines has state-wide implications. A...
Traini Returns to Anchorage Assembly Chair
Dick Traini is the new chair of the Anchorage Assembly after Tuesday’s meeting began with a vote to reorganize leadership. Elvi Gray-Jackson is the ne...
Obama Calls Bristol Bay Off Limits to Oil
President Obama on Tuesday moved to protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay from oil and gas exploration without making any mention of a contentious copper and g...
The Effort to Legalize Prostitution in Alaska
Organization hopes to improve Alaska sex workers’ safety, legal climate. A local advocacy group is calling for the decriminalization of prostitution i...
Mapping Alaska Tackled with Laser Camera Technology
Big ol’ Alaska. The state that can swallow Texas, Montana, and California with room for a New England-size dessert. The Last Frontier is vast, yet thr...
Alaska’s Oil Exports Seen to Increase
The big question about America’s energy boom is not how much it will produce, but how much it can export. Allowable exports of crude oil and condensat...
Oil Goes Under $60 to a 4-Year Low – The Boom Is Gone
A crash in Alaska North Slope crude prices that echoes a worldwide drop in the price of oil has raised the possibility of multibillion-dollar deficits...
Governor Asking All Alaskans for Budget Help
“We invite all Alaskans to give us their thoughts,” said Lieutenant Governor Mallott. “Together, we need to reinvent state government and rationalize ...
Ground Zero on the Capital Budget
“This is ground zero on the capital budget,” says Pat Pitney, the new director of the Office of Management and Budget. The capital budget submitted on...
Okay, Children: Let’s Share the North Pole
It’s now a three-way battle for ownership of the North Pole, as Denmark revealed it will take on Canada and Russia amid claims its Greenland territory...
Shell and Alaska Should Show Noble Drilling the Door
By Carey Restino This week, one of the companies Shell Oil hired to drill in the Arctic in 2012 — Noble Drilling — was fined $12.2 million and plead g...
Alaskas Oil Reserves Decline for Third Straight Year
For the third year in a row, Alaska’s crude oil and lease condensate reserves declined, with 186 million barrels of production, and significant downwa...
Not Just Around when Bad Happens; Kotzebue Kids Shop with a Cop
Kotzebue Police Major Crimes Investigator Hal Henning decided to launch a nation-wide program called Shop with a Cop in the Northwest Arctic this holi...
Charter Schools Struggle for Facilities
Charter schools in Anchorage are struggling with a facilities problem. The schools are part of the Anchorage School District, but they have to find an...
Gonna Get “Ugly” when Legislators Dicker over Capital Projects
Thanks to slumping oil prices and dwindling savings, lawmakers are preparing for severely reduced budgets, which means a whole lot less money for proj...
Fairbanks Assembly Gets Earful to Regulate Air Pollutants
In more than three hours of public testimony on air quality the Borough Assembly heard during an air quality town hall meeting Wednesday night, more t...
Pro Basketball Coach Leads Haines Girls
Haines School now has a physical education teacher and high school girls’ basketball coach who trained an NBA team for 20 years. And what might be eve...
New Health Commissioner Ready to Expand Medicaid
Valerie Davidson has been one of the biggest advocates in the state for Medicaid Expansion. Now implementing that expansion is one of her top prioriti...
Alaska Coast Guard Still Looking for Korean Vessel
The U.S. Coast Guard will continue helping look for the crew of a Korean fishing boat that sank in the Bering Sea, although Korean rescuers are increa...
We Elected You to Stop Obama
Palin: Hey, if you thought we wanted more of the same as we worked our butts off to get good folks elected in November, then why did we vote to oust l...
State Spending Digging a Bigger Hole
Slumping oil prices have helped push Alaska’s potential budget deficit this year to $3.5 billion — an increase of $2.1 billion from what lawmakers exp...
Begich Protects Veterans from Possible Gov Shutdown
Appropriations Deal to Include Begich Measure Protecting Veterans from Government Shutdowns – Provision Will Provide Advance Funding for Veteran...
Anchorage’s #1 Budget Wish: Port “Modernization”
Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan is requesting $350 million from the state for the troubled Port of Anchorage. The port appropriation request is by far th...
Oil Price Drops: Don’t Panic, says Fortune Magazine
The recent drop in crude prices won’t kill off the US shale oil industry. It’ll just make it more efficient. Profit margins and break-even points are ...
Suicide Tackled by Alaskan Rotary Groups
The three Rotary Clubs in Juneau teamed up to host the training session for the public, part of a Rotary move to promote suicide awareness and prevent...
Navy Secretary Discussed Arctic Changes with UAF
FAIRBANKS — The United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus met with University of Alaska Fairbanks officials and scientists Friday to discuss how t...
Bill Walker Meets with Obama
Discussions between President Obama and the nation’s governors began on a hopeful bipartisan note Monday but quickly devolved into a nasty dispute bet...
A Troubling Walker Oil and Gas Transition Team
Alex Gimarc – When we elect a lawyer as governor and they bring their fellow lawyers into the new government, one would logically question whose...
White House Initiative on Native Education Needs More Help
There are 32 accredited tribal colleges and at least five non-accredited schools offering associate, bachelor’s and even some master’s degrees. Tribal...
The Mark and Lisa Show
It started in July when Sen. Lisa Murkowski objected to Sen. Mark Begich including her name on a press release and citing her in a radio ad. It intens...
By Noon Friday
An Alaska Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that the governor’s office must start providing documents about the National Guard scandal to Alaska Pub...
Does Sean Parnell’s Running Mate Spell Doom?
Alaska is the number two strongest union influenced state in the nation (just behind New York) with 22% workforce membership. Though Governor Sean Par...
Top Ten Non-Alaskan Reasons to Replace Begich
By Eugene Harnett – We need to keep perspective. These top ten reasons to remove Mark Begich, produced by Freedom Works for America, might seem...
Excellent Debate on the Kenai
Like you, I do not make it to all the debates, nor like to rely solely upon campaign mailers and radio ads. So I’m refreshed (and impressed) by ...
We are ALL against it
Stories about Alaska’s sad record of domestic violence we’ve known for years. We are not proud of it. The statistics and stories show up...
A Voter Pamphlet with Political Ads?
Ridiculous, if you ask me. It could possibly be campaign misconduct in the third degree, if you ask a fast attorney. Except its the fox guarding the h...
The Obama Virus in Alaska
The biggest problem for Senator Begich happens to be his party affiliation that links him directly to President Obama’s national policies. As th...