The city’s new inundation maps are expected to be released at the end of the month, before the levee is scheduled to be finished in mid-June.
Environment
5.1 magnitude quake shakes Southwest Alaska
Monday’s quake near Egegik was the area’s strongest in over a decade. Scientists say it was likely caused by normal fault movement, but are monitoring volcanic activity.
How Alaska Native youth are protecting the land for their future ancestors
With climate change threatening Indigenous lifeways in Alaska, these four young women are devoting their careers to their preservation.
Anchorage’s beloved Star the reindeer dies after possible poisoning
Star was the seventh reindeer to live at the corner of 10th Avenue and I Street.
Resolution pending in Alaska Legislature urges more federal support for NOAA weather buoys
The buoys are cited as examples of how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its National Weather Service are important to Alaska.
Alaska Board of Game approves petition for emergency predator control
The board’s action allows the Department of Fish and Game to continue killing bears and wolves for a third season in the range of the shrunken Mulchatna Caribou Herd.