LETTER: Mental health bill violates Alaska parental rights, feeds transgender industry

Editor’s note: Alaska Senate Majority Leader Cathy Geissel has introduced Senate Bill 90, which seeks to lower the age (from 18 to 16) at which minors can agree to undergo mental and behavioral health services without parental consent. The following letter …

OPINION: By eroding Grand Jury rights, Alaska officials push citizens to the precipice

Largely unaware that they have wandered into such grave danger, Alaskan citizens are inexorably being pushed off the edge of an immense cliff. Public officials claim we cannot stop the fall. A bit of Sherlock-Holming has uncovered chilling evidence that a …

Urgent: 5.2-magnitude quake hits 68 km W of Point Hope, Alaska -- USGS

NEW YORK, March 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted 68 km W of Point Hope, Alaska at 2025-03-12 17:29:44 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 0.0 km, was initially determined to be at 68. …

‘Schools have been waiting’: Alaska House passes public school funding boost

Rep. Rebecca Himschoot, I-Sitka, speaks in support of the education funding bill on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill Wednesday that would substantially increase …

Seeing the lunar eclipse in Alaska

Alaska Works Partnership Expands Training with Lowe’s Foundation Grant

Jana Mabie, an apprentice with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), says AWP training has helped her professional journey in multiple ways. In the two years between high school and becoming indentured with IBEW, Mabie took AWP …

A volcano near Alaska's largest city could erupt in the coming weeks or months, scientists say

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | 2:55 p.m. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at Mount Spurr in the next few weeks or months has increased. The Alaska …

‘Losing from uncertainty’: Experts say chaotic federal funding freezes are disrupting rural Alaska projects

Alaska experts on energy, housing and infrastructure said almost three-quarters-of-a-billion dollars is in limbo from President Donald Trump’s funding freezes – and that uncertainty is affecting local communities. The Trump administration paused funding …

Alaska volcano’s eruption ‘likely,’ could send ash to state’s population centers within weeks

The likelihood of an Alaska volcano’s explosive eruption not far from the state’s largest city has increased, according to researchers. Officials with the Alaska Volcano Observatory reported Wednesday morning that flights over the volcano on Friday and …

An eruption of Alaska's Mount Spurr is ‘likely’ within weeks or months, scientists say

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The likelihood that Mount Spurr, the closest active volcano to Anchorage, will erupt is increasing, with scientists now saying an eruption is “likely” within weeks or months. During flights over the volcano on March 7 and 11, scientists …