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Roughly half of Alaska’s school districts qualified for the five year grant program, which is managed by the state’s education department.

The city recycling center remains closed due to multiple issues with its baler. City officials say it could take weeks before it’s repaired.

The state’s project notice calls for the new mainliner ferry to be completed by the beginning of 2029 with an estimated price tag of more than $300 million.

There will be no trial as long as Steve Kroschel remains overseas, the judge said at a hearing last week.

John Bressette joined the city just before record snowfall, followed by rain and flooding, pushed the community to declare a disaster and issue evacuation advisories downtown.

Climate change is making atmospheric rivers more extreme and researchers have traced a 295% increase in landslides reported in the news between the 1980s and 2010s.

Murkowski says the Homeland Security secretary should be held to account for her agency’s tactics in Minneapolis, where two citizens have been shot to death amid a massive immigration enforcement operation.

Students are speaking out about how unresolved contract negotiations between the district and its teaching and support staff unions are affecting them in the classroom.

The student council is calling on the Skagway School Board to make the attendance policy more inclusive by allowing students to take seven subsistence days per semester.

Earlier this month, Mayor Beth Weldon proposed an ordinance to reduce the status of the city-owned ski area’s board from an empowered board to an advisory board.

Lizzy Hahn, the student journalist who broke the viral story, says the incident is shaping culture and policy around the use of AI on campus.

“I want to stop our fights over the PFD and the Permanent Fund,” Dunleavy said in his State of the State speech on Thursday.

The Department of Environmental Conservation said it has been unable to get close to the wreckage, due to worries that metal from Rig 26 might fall on response team members.

With almost 700 participants, Juneau’s annual board game convention sold out for a second time this year. And the weekend-long Platypus Con was open late — until the early morning hours. 

On Saturday, more than 40 people gathered at the steps of the Alaska State Capitol in downtown Juneau to protest the long-sought Alaska LNG project.

The State Board of Education and Early Development unanimously approved a school psychology masters program at the University of Alaska Anchorage aimed to address the state’s shortage of school psychologists.

More than 200 Juneau residents gathered downtown at Overstreet Park Sunday evening to honor a man who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during protests against ongoing ICE operations.

New research found that absent climate action, it’s extremely likely coastal Alaska’s wetlands will become too warm for salmon before the end of the century.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the review last week, calling the business development program “the oldest DEI program in the federal government.”

In its report, the D.C.-based law firm WilmerHale said its investigation had raised “significant concerns” about whether Crum met his fiduciary duties under state law.