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Could a new Alaska coal power plant be climate friendly? An $11 million study aims to find out.

One year and $250,000 later, Alaska's new spending database is missing in action

Millions for a carbon capture study, Alaska's gas pipeline and a Copper River trail project: A tour of Gov. Dunleavy's capital budget.

I just reviewed 1,000 pages of Alaska budget documents — so you don't have to.

Interesting stuff: A major Anchorage trailhead upgrade, a legislative trip to North Dakota and Begich-hosted mayoral forums

Biden administration could wade into lawsuit over Southeast Alaska tribal fishing rights

Want to ski, shoot, and hang out with Anchorage Olympians? Try biathlon.

There's lots of gas in Cook Inlet. Here's why some companies aren't drilling.

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Mining exec: Alaska’s pricy, fossil fuel-based power could thwart investment

U.S. military quietly revokes planned contract for small nuclear plant at Alaska Air Force base

Monthly premiums for health insurance on the federal marketplace will rise 16% in Alaska next year

Dissident shareholders ousted the pro-logging board of Yakutat's Indigenous village corporation. Here's what comes next.

Sealaska's chief executive to depart, but company says its strategy will stay the same

Interesting Stuff: More legislators press AG on Cook Inlet gas, a $750,000 settlement and an Aleutian murder mystery

Why I won't be sending you a Nat Herz bobblehead

Interesting Stuff: Apache's return to the North Slope, AIDEA's pro-Pebble legal contract and the death of snow days

If Alaska wants more Cook Inlet gas, taxpayers should get ready to pony up

With little movement on salmon bycatch, Alaska advocates look to Biden administration for executive action

Interesting stuff: a guilty plea in Kachemak Bay seaplane case, a state contract for McKinsey and Dunleavy's revived pro-family efforts

A new rush arrives on the Seward Peninsula: for graphite, not gold

Amid natural gas crunch, an Alaska utility asks to resurrect in-state gas pipeline

Interesting stuff: natural gas incentives, a new pact on Indigenous language election materials and a possible corporate shakeup in Yakutat

Alaska watches, nervously, as Ukraine war pushes more Russian oil through Bering Strait

Alaska Gov. Dunleavy names ad consultant, talk show host Porcaro to commercial fisheries agency

LNG imports are likely coming to Anchorage. But advocates say policy changes can forestall them.

Interesting stuff: More from the mammal beat, Dunleavy visits a mining prospect and a tribe's quick reversal in an oil project lawsuit

In brief: Gleason hands Alaska and AIDEA an Arctic Refuge defeat

The great Alaska walrus caper of 2023

Interesting stuff: Alaska tribal health groups battle over documents in court; Clarkson and Kelly return to politics

Interesting stuff: Former Peltola chief of staff will lobby, consult for Alaska interests in D.C.

Alaska salmon fishermen fume over low prices, but processors say they're hurting too

Alaska Gov. Dunleavy fires two Susitna road opponents from land management advisory board

Interesting stuff: a new wind project takes shape outside Anchorage, as AIDEA mulls options for struggling state-owned oil field

A crucial van service in Anchorage's public safety system is short-staffed, straining city fire and police

Updated: In "major victory" for Southeast Alaska trollers, federal appeals panel reverses fishery closure

"We can go fishing": appeals court says Southeast Alaska troll fishery can open this summer

Alaska Gov. Dunleavy removes university researcher from energy task force leadership post

Interesting stuff: Dunleavy’s investment whisperer, a North Slope worker death and an Ambler road critic joins the project's sponsor

A conservation group's lawsuit already closed an iconic Alaska fishery. Now, it's pushing for Endangered Species Act protections for king salmon.

From Alaska Public Media — Alaska Gov. Dunleavy policy adviser who said ‘divorce is worse than rape’ resigns

No relief for beleaguered Southeast Alaska trollers as judge rejects request to keep fishery open

News Donuts: Ambler delays, a North Slope tax dispute and growing opposition to Alaska's LNG project

Anchorage's electric utility elects two "clean energy" board candidates, re-elects incumbent chair

Interesting stuff: a Girdwood lodge proposal, a Dunleavy trip to Germany and seafood news

As natural gas shortage looms, Alaska electric utilities and advocates are feuding over a renewable power bill

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Alaska’s university system says two science education leaders are on administrative leave

To protect orcas, federal judge orders closure of iconic Southeast Alaska troll fishery

Anchorage’s electric utility is having the most hotly contested election in years. We surveyed the candidates.

AIDEA paid $63,500 to settle ex-spokesman's wrongful termination lawsuit

Yakutat tribal leader fears loss of land as bank sues Southeast Alaska village corporation for $13.3 million

Fish hatcheries, long seen as a last resort, get a new look amid Yukon River salmon crisis

Alaska lawmakers: Keep your pay raise. But it's time to fix per diem.

Alaska Gov. Dunleavy passes over tribal advocate for fishery council post, fueling calls for change

A lawsuit targets a Southeast Alaska salmon fishery to save 73 orcas. Critics say the Washington-based plaintiffs should look closer to home.

A PhD energy analyst and former state lawmaker got screened out from running for Anchorage's electric utility board — without an explanation.

Alaska odds and ends, and a quick European dispatch

Letter from Yakutat: Deep cuts on the Lost Coast

After four years, joy in Utqiaġvik at the messenger feast's return

Inside Kodiak's crab standoff

Alaska, long a resource exporter, now wants to profit by leaving timber uncut and pumping carbon underground

Two companies' dispute over access to Alaska's next big oil development is now headed to court