1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (631+ words) Published 3:30 am Monday, September 7, 2026 By Leilani Combs Wrangell Sentinel With glacial flooding last month in Juneau, a landslide-driven tsunami last year in Tracy Arm, deadly landslides in Wrangell in 2023 and in Sitka, Haines and Ketchikan in recent years, the presence…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (698+ words) Published 5:30 am Saturday, September 5, 2026 A male brown bear is pictured near Pack Creek on Admiralty Island on July 19, 2024. State wildlife officials are urging residents to exercise caution after a Haines woman was attacked by a brown bear, prompting a list…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (184+ words) Published 9:33 am Saturday, August 29, 2026 U.S. Coast Guard Sector Southeast Alaska personnel recently terminated the voyage of a commercial passenger vessel operating in Sitka. On Aug. 20, law enforcement officers from U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Pike boarded a foreign-built vessel and confirmed that passenger…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (469+ words) Published 5:30 am Saturday, August 29, 2026 The Hubbard state ferry docks at the Alaska Marine Highway System terminal in Auke Bay. Plans are in the works for a new Cascade Point Ferry Terminal, about 30 miles north of Auke Bay. The Hubbard and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (390+ words) I have extreme concern for the future of the State of Alaska, its leadership, and the expectation of integrity that a government official should hold. In my opinion, “Decoy Dan”, a proposed candidate for Senate, is nothing but a despicable…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1134+ words) Published 3:30 am Wednesday, August 26, 2026 Nathan Graham, director of the UAF Geophysical Institute’s Advanced Instrumentation Lab, shows the sample of Mount Spurr ash that will be analyzed by a scanning electron microscope. This image at 800 magnification shows a mineral called plagioclase…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (545+ words) Published 5:30 am Saturday, August 22, 2026 Dan Sullivan has hitched Alaska’s political wagon to Donald Trump as Trump’s presidency is showing its deepest cracks. Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 33 percent, the lowest of his presidency, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (481+ words) Published 11:00 am Wednesday, August 19, 2026 By Anna Griffin New York Times Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a Democratic candidate for governor, campaigns in Fairbanks, Alaska, on July 25, 2026. Kreiss-Tomkins, who entered politics as a teenager on Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, has won the chance to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (147+ words) Published 6:30 am Wednesday, August 19, 2026 By Juneau Empire Staff Tuesday night’s primary results show an interesting election shaping up for Alaska in November. Incumbent Democratic Rep. Andi Story secured 69.84 percent of the vote (2,848) to top House District 3 ahead of Republican Annette…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (482+ words) Published 8:30 am Wednesday, August 19, 2026 By James Brooks Alaska Beacon Early tallies from Tuesday’s statewide primary election showed overwhelming support for a ballot measure that will restrict the amount of money that political candidates can accept from groups and individuals. With…...