‘This is not the same virus’: A new resurgence of COVID-19 shutters Cordova seafood plant
A surge of new coronavirus cases triggered a mask mandate for city employees, closed processing plant campuses and shuttered one plant during a salmon opener.
Sitka grapples with spread of COVID-19 as one resident dies and Alaska sees almost 500 new infections
The Southeast community reported more than 60 new cases this week. Also, a visitor who tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday flew from Sitka to Juneau, and then Seattle.
Permit denied for large Mat-Su gravel pit in middle of neighborhood off Parks Highway
The denial sets up a potential conflict between the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority’s obligation to make money for beneficiaries.
Supreme Court decision allowing recall against Gov. Dunleavy to proceed focuses on voter discretion, vetoes
The ruling from the state’s highest court drew a dissent from its former chief justice, who called findings regarding the governor’s veto power “an egregious error.”
Mat-Su, a pandemic ‘outlier,’ lost few jobs in 2020. Some sectors even gained workers.
Statewide, Alaska’s employment numbers dropped 8% last year. But some places, including the Valley and Yakutat, actually saw job growth in specific sectors.
Alaska’s jobless claims continue steady decline after end of $300 pandemic boost
Economists say it’s too early to know how much of the decline is due to Gov. Dunleavy halting an extra federal unemployment benefit as of June 19, and how much other factors may be in play.
‘We had no clue’: With little zoning, a gravel pit is proposed for a Mat-Su neighborhood
Colaska wants to mine gravel at a 160-acre parcel in Meadow Lakes held by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority. Concerns from surrounding homeowners range from road safety to decimated property values.
Here’s how Gov. Dunleavy’s vetoes affect foster youths, tourism marketing, legal services and more
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said he targeted items that “would have grown government.” He also cut funding for school maintenance and construction projects he proposed.
6 properties demolished along Matanuska River, putting an end to erosion-threatened home buyout
A contractor tore down six structures in the past few weeks, part of a process to remove erosion-threatened places that began almost a decade ago.
‘I couldn’t get there fast enough’: A JBER soldier reported a sexual assault 10 days after she came out on Facebook. She died by suicide in May.
The 21-year-old soldier identified another military member as her attacker. Her family wants military law changed to include hate crimes.
Anchorage man argued with homeless people the day before opening fire, killing a woman and wounding 4 people, according to witness and police accounts
Anthony Herring, 21, is facing murder charges in the death of 37-year-old Jaclyn Welcome.
A new balloon ride is planned for Talkeetna. Is it an innovative tourist attraction or a blight on the ‘sacred viewshed’ of the Alaska Range?
The attraction — the brainchild of Iditarod champ Dallas Seavey — can carry up to five passengers as high as 30 stories into the air. Residents are divided on its merits.