Alaska

The 2025 edition of the Yukon Quest Alaska is mushing on! The Yukon Quest 550 and 200-mile races both kicked off Saturday. A video shared on Facebook by Black Spruce Dog Sledding shows musher Jeff Deeter in action. The shorter of the two races takes mushers from Fairbanks to...

JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - As state lawmakers gear up for a potentially lengthy battle over how to fund education across Alaska, the House Education Committee returned to discussions over House Bill 69 on Monday, with the ideological differences over a path forward making...

Alaskans testified overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would boost per-student funding at a meeting of the House Education Committee on January 29. House Bill 69 was introduced in January by Sitka independent Representative Rebecca Himschoot and would raise state funding for...

Lawmakers are pushing Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration to release drafts of a statewide salary study submitted by a human resources consultant. The calls to release the drafts come as the state faces an ongoing worker shortage — as of the end of last year, there were 2,905...

An overhead shot of the property shows that the only neighbors are trees. A Redditor generated no shortage of jealousy after sharing pictures of their off-grid cabin in Alaska. In the comments section, the original poster detailed how the elegant cabin was built "on the spot"...

Nine rural fire departments on the Kenai Peninsula are getting more than $80,000 in grants to boost firefighting efforts. The award money was announced by the Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection and comes from the federal Department of Agriculture. In all, the...

Expanding financing and tax credits, boosting university research on processing technology, and making a federal case for fishermen to be put on the same page with farmers are some of the recommendations in the Joint Legislative Task Force Evaluating Alaska’s Seafood Industry’s...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Temperatures across the state have been warming through the weekend as a ridge has settled into Alaska. While the ridge is expected to flatten and shift to the south, most of this week will remain fairly quiet for most of the state. High wind warnings...

The Alaska Board of Fisheries is meeting in Ketchikan to consider changes to Southeast Alaska’s fisheries. The state regulatory group will take up herring proposals this week, and it could adopt changes to how the Sitka Sound Sac Roe herring fishery is managed, like lowering...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, scrambled U.S. and Canadian fighter jets last week to accompany a formation of Russian aircraft flying through international airspace off the coasts of Alaska and Canada. The fighters were part of two combat air patrols...