Anchorage news

• For Juneau mayor, incumbent Beth Weldon faces challenger Angela Rodell

  25-09-2024 02:52 via ktoo.org
  
  Angela Rodell (left) and Beth Weldon (right) are the candidates running for Juneau Mayor in the 2024 municipal election. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Two people are vying to serve as Juneau’s next mayor in the Oct. 1 municipal election.Incumbent Mayor Beth Weldon faces challenger Angela Rodell, who is running on a fiscally conservative platform and out-fundraising her opponent so far. 
  Weldon has served as Juneau’s mayor since 2018. In an interview leading up to the election, she said
  
  Read more

• Juneau on backup and generator power after main transmission line fails

  16-11-2024 00:37 via ktoo.org
  
  Customers shine flashlights at Foodland IGA in downtown Juneau on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  The power went out across Juneau for about an hour on Friday afternoon after the connection to its main hydroelectricity source failed. The city will be on backup power until the main line is restored.
  Alaska Electric Light & Power said the outage was due to a fault on the connection line to the Snettisham Hydroelectric Project. AEL&P does not yet know what happened to the line.
  
  Read more

• Alaska scientists and policymakers look to hydrogen as power source of the future

  15-11-2024 22:01 via ktoo.org
  
  U.S. Geological Survey geologist Geoffrey Ellis stands on Oct. 29 by a poster diplayed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks that explains how pure hydrogen can be pooled in underground formations. Ellis is the leading USGS expert on geologic hydrogen. He was a featured presenter at a three-day workshop on geologic hydrogen that was held at UAF. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
  The key to decarbonization may be all around us.
  Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is in t
  
  Read more

• Former Pilot Station mayor pleads guilty to felony election interference

  15-11-2024 21:48 via ktoo.org
  
  The lower Yukon River community of Pilot Station is seen in 2005. (Courtesy Amy Clapp/ARCUS)
  The former mayor of the Yukon River community of Pilot Station has pleaded guilty to felony election interference.
  As part of a plea agreement accepted on Nov. 14, 68-year-old Arthur Heckman Sr. faces five years of probation for one count of unlawful interference with an election. The charge relates to inducing or attempting to induce an election official to fail in the official’s duty by force, th
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Final rural Alaska precinct reports Election Day results, but counting isn’t done

  15-11-2024 19:29 via ktoo.org
  
  Election materials are seen at the Alaska Division of Elections headquarters on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Juneau. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  Nine days after Election Day, all of Alaska’s 403 polling stations have reported results.
  On Thursday, the Alaska Division of Elections reported that a tally sheet from the village of Atqasuk, a village of about 280 people in the North Slope Borough, had reached state officials.
  Statewide, an estimated 30,000-35,000 absentee
  
  Read more

• Trump picks North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the Interior Department

  15-11-2024 19:24 via ktoo.org
  
  Governor of North Dakota Doug Burgum speaks during the final campaign rally for former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump before election day at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on November 4, 2024. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
  President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday night that he will nominate North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to be secretary of the Department of the Interior.
  “He’s going t
  
  Read more

• Ketchikan sends off the first Capitol Christmas Tree to come from the Tongass

  15-11-2024 03:21 via ktoo.org
  Residents peer through the windows at the top of the Capitol Christmas Tree in Ketchikan on Wednesday, Oct. 30. (Michael Fanelli/KRBD)
  Hundreds of Ketchikan residents recently packed into a parking lot on a chilly Wednesday evening to send off a 74-foot Sitka spruce, on its way to the U.S. Capitol.
  The massive tree was fully encased inside a tractor trailer, only visible through a few plastic windows on the back end. But that didn’t deter the impressively large crowd from forming a long li
  
  Read more

• Newscast – Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024

  15-11-2024 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/20241114-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:High school and middle school students in Juneau are reportedly fighting more this semester than in years prior,
  Rumors abound that Gov. Mike Dunleavy may leave the governor’s mansion for a post in the Trump administration,
  The City of Sitka has its first agreement with the local, privately owned cruise dock,
  The former mayor of the Yukon River community of Pilot Station has pled guilty to felony e
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Juneau’s high school has seen an uptick in fights this school year

  14-11-2024 21:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Students walk to the Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé entrance for the first day of school on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  High school and middle school students in Juneau are reportedly fighting more this semester than in years prior.
  According to data from the Juneau School District, 11 fights occurred between August and October at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé. That’s more than double the number of fights that broke out there over the
  
  Read more

• Trump’s pick for attorney general isn’t a ‘serious candidate,’ Murkowski says

  14-11-2024 19:53 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski, right, speaks to a scrum of reporters in 2020, after a speech critical of then-President Donald Trump. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  As soon as news broke that President-Elect Donald Trump would nominate firebrand Congressman Matt Gaetz as his attorney general, a scrum of reporters at the Capitol wanted to know what Sen. Lisa Murkowski thought.
  “He’s under investigation by the House Ethics Committee but now he could potentially be attorney general,” a Bl
  
  Read more

• Biden administration gives support to controversial land trade in Alaska wildlife refuge

  14-11-2024 19:40 via ktoo.org
  
  Brant fly by Mount Dutton in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 11, 2009. The refuge supports nearly the world’s entire population of Pacific brant. The debate over the land trade and the road it would enable have pitted concerns about public safety against those about habitat for migratory birds and other wildlife. (Photo by Kristine Sowl/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
  The Department of the Interior has set the stage for a controversial land trade that would allow a road to be bui
  
  Read more

• Newscast – Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024

  14-11-2024 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/20241113-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:The Alaska Division of Elections posted an updated results tally late last night,
  A state commission has finally approved the City of Hoonah’s request to form a borough, and now residents of the proposed borough will decided whether to accept it,
  Someone made a $10 million mistake by buying steel for a critical dock project in Haines,
  A nonprofit hydropower agency in Southeast Alaska is set to rece
  
  Read more

• Rumors abound that Dunleavy may join the Trump administration. Here’s what that could mean for Alaska.

  14-11-2024 02:34 via ktoo.org
  
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, delivers his annual State of the State address to a joint session of the Alaska Legislature on Jan. 30, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Everybody’s talking about it.
  “It’s no secret that there is a possibility that Governor Dunleavy may become the next secretary of the Interior or possibly Energy secretary under the Trump administration,” said Sen. Shelley Hughes, R-Palmer, who’s been close with the governor.
  Though nothing has been confirm
  
  Read more

• After decades of trying, state commission approves Hoonah petition to create Alaska’s newest borough

  14-11-2024 00:48 via ktoo.org
  
  The proposed Xunaa Borough Boundary. (Local Boundary Commission)https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/13xunaa.wav
  A state commission has finally approved the City of Hoonah’s request to form a borough. Now, residents of the proposed borough will decide whether to accept it. 
  On Tuesday, the state’s local boundary commission accepted the petition in a 3-2 vote to annex neighboring areas to create Alaska’s 20th borough.
  Last year, the City of Hoonah proposed to d
  
  Read more

• Juneau’s Aurora Harbor among 6 Alaska coastal projects to split $104M from feds

  14-11-2024 00:41 via ktoo.org
  
  Downtown Juneau’s Aurora Harbor in June 2023. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  Alaska’s congressional delegation announced on Tuesday that $104 million will go towards port and maritime infrastructure projects around the state.
  According to a joint press release from Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan as well as Rep. Mary Peltola, the funding is spread across six coastal communities: Anchorage, Dillingham, Hoonah, Juneau, Kodiak and Saint Paul.
  “With so many communities across
  
  Read more

• A dog on Prince of Wales Island is helping to conserve wolves by tracking their poop

  13-11-2024 19:28 via ktoo.org
  Barley of K9 Conservationists on a beach near Craig, Alaska. May 8, 2024. (Jack Darrell/KRBD)
  Barley’s professional title is “canine conservationist.” This summer, the former shelter Australian Shepherd was searching the woods on the outskirts of Craig, Alaska, for wolf poop.
  “Biologists love poop. It’s a huge part of our job,” said Barley’s owner, Kayla Fratt.
  Fratt is a dog trainer and Ph.D. student at Oregon State University. She trains dogs, like Bar
  
  Read more

• Begich maintains lead and repeal of ranked choice still passing in updated election results

  13-11-2024 19:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich helps wave campaign signs with supporters in Anchorage on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  Republican Nick Begich III maintained his lead over Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola after the Division of Elections posted an updated results tally late Tuesday night.
  Begich now has about 49% of first-place votes to Peltola’s nearly 46%. That’s a difference of nearly 10,000 votes. If neither of the candidates w
  
  Read more

• Newscast – Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024

  13-11-2024 03:11 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/20241112-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:The Alaska Beacon reports that state legislators believe Governor Mike Dunleavy might be offered a job in the new administration of President Donald Trump,
  Homer Police arrested a man Monday night as the suspect in three shootings at two local health nonprofits over the last month,
  Veterans in Petersburg came together yesterday for a parade, and some received handmade quilts,
  Tongass Voices: Wayne Price
  
  Read more

• Tongass Voices: Wayne Price on the past — and future — of yaakw carving

  13-11-2024 01:45 via ktoo.org
  
  Master Carver Wayne Price and his apprentice Skaydu.û Jules stand in front of a yaakw-in-progress on Nov. 6, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond.
  Master Carver Wayne Price has carved 15 dugout canoes, and he’s been instrumental in bringing the art of carving boats back to Lingít people.
  Now, he’s working on a dugout canoe — or
  
  Read more

• Anchor Point man arrested after shootings at Homer health nonprofits

  13-11-2024 01:03 via ktoo.org
  The Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic’s administrative and education building on Nov. 12, 2024. (Jamie Diep/KBBI)
  Homer Police arrested a man Monday in connection to three shootings at two local nonprofits.
  Homer Police Chief Mark Robl said officers found and arrested 30-year-old Josiah Kelly of Anchor Point after a second shooting at Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic’s administrative and education building Monday evening. The clinic had also been shot at earlier in the day.
  Kach
  
  Read more

• Silver Bay Seafoods acquires Peter Pan facilities in Dillingham, Port Moller

  12-11-2024 22:55 via ktoo.org
  
  Peter Pan Seafoods’ processing plant in Dillingham in November 2024. (Margaret Sutherland/KDLG)
  Silver Bay Seafoods will acquire processing plants in Dillingham and Port Moller, along with fishery support sites in Dillingham and North Naknek.
  Silver Bay announced the acquisition from Rodger May, the former co-owner of Peter Pan Seafoods, in a press release Wednesday. The Dillingham and Port Moller plants are Silver Bay’s fourth and fifth plant acquisitions this year. It also took ove
  
  Read more

• At least 8 teens injured in an explosion at a Kodiak beach party

  12-11-2024 19:30 via ktoo.org
  
  One of several ash piles near the entrance to White Sands Beach near Kodiak. The beach is a popular spot for bonfires, fishing, bear watching, walks, or letting dogs run around off-leash. (Brian Venua/KMXT)
  At least eight teenagers were injured after an explosion at a drinking party and bonfire on Kodiak Island in the early morning on Sunday. Five of those children were medevaced to Anchorage with moderate injuries, according to a release from Alaska State Troopers. None of the injurie
  
  Read more

• Alaska-owned corporation approves $750,000 for legal fights over Ambler Road and ANWR

  12-11-2024 19:25 via ktoo.org
  
  The Anchorage headquarters of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, shares space with a sister agency, the Alaska Energy Authority. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz)
  Alaska’s state-owned development corporation is advancing plans to explore for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and to build a 300-mile road to a mining district in Northwest Alaska.
  The board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority voted unanimously Thursday to spend up to $750,000&n
  
  Read more

• Former Haines mayor says he did not authorize contested $10M steel purchase

  11-11-2024 21:07 via ktoo.org
  
  A view under Haines’ Lutak Dock shows where beams, corroded by saltwater, once fit into the concrete above. (KHNS file photo from 2018)
  Someone made a $10 million mistake buying steel for a critical dock project in Haines. The dispute about who’s responsible for the bill – Haines taxpayers or the construction contractor – is now almost a year old, and continues to delay the project.
  For nearly a year, the municipality has been in a $10 million disagreement with Turna
  
  Read more

• Three nominated for upcoming vacancy on Alaska Supreme Court

  11-11-2024 20:58 via ktoo.org
  
  The Boney Courthouse building in Anchorage holds the Alaska Supreme Court chambers. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
  The Alaska Judicial Council has nominated an Anchorage judge, an assistant attorney general and an expert in utilities law for an upcoming vacancy on the Alaska Supreme Court.
  When Gov. Mike Dunleavy picks one of the three, he will create the first majority-female Supreme Court in Alaska history.
  Kate Demarest, Josie Garton and Aimee Oravec were each nomin
  
  Read more

• Alaska Capitol’s ‘worst-kept secret’ is that Gov. Dunleavy may leave office to join Trump

  11-11-2024 19:10 via ktoo.org
  
  President Donald Trump and Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy pose for a photo aboard Air Force One during a stopover at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage in 2019. (Sheila Craighead / White House photo)
  Alaska lawmakers expect bipartisan coalitions to control the state House and Senate when the Alaska Legislature convenes in January, but they don’t know who the state’s governor will be.
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s second term isn’t over until December 2026, but in a series of
  
  Read more

• Lingít Word of the Week: Dóosh — Cat

  11-11-2024 17:00 via ktoo.org
  
  This week’s Lingít word is dóosh, or cat. Popsicle is the cat of KTOO reporter Yvonne Krumrey. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey).
  This is Lingít Word of the Week. Each week, we feature a Lingít word voiced by master speakers. Lingít has been spoken throughout present-day Southeast Alaska and parts of Canada for over 10,000 years.
  Gunalchéesh to X̱’unei Lance Twitchell, Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and the University of Alaska Southeast for sharing the
  
  Read more

• Newscast – Friday, Nov. 8, 2024

  09-11-2024 03:02 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/20241108-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:Alaska is well into the start of respiratory disease season. And with it, Alaskans are getting coughs, colds, COVID-19 and cases of flu.  And physicians are seeing a few things that make this year stand out.
  The Hecla Greens Creek mine near Juneau plans to break ground on an expansion sometime next year. That’s because on Thursday the U.S. Forest officially permitted its project on Admiralty I
  
  Read more

• Early election results mistakenly showed imprisoned U.S. House candidate leading in one Southeast Alaska precinct

  09-11-2024 01:05 via ktoo.org
  
  Pelican on Monday, July 3, 2023. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/08pelican.wav
  Unofficial results from the Division of Elections earlier this week showed one Southeast Alaska precinct seemed to overwhelmingly choose a peculiar candidate for the U.S. House — a man currently imprisoned in New York. 
  Those results confused voters from the communities, who said that didn’t line up with how they voted. 
  When Pelican resident Patricia Philli
  
  Read more

• Scientists discover volcano-like structure in Arctic Ocean off Alaska

  08-11-2024 23:01 via ktoo.org
  
  New data is used to map a volcano-like feature discovered this fall by science teams aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a polar-class icebreaker used for Arctic research. The scientists found the structure on the continental slope off northern Alaska. (Image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  Scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker have discovered something unusual in the Arctic Ocean off northern Alaska: a volcano-like structure rising more than 500
  
  Read more

Follow @AnchorageNewsUS on Twitter!