The value of the system matters because it helps determine the amount of property taxes the pipeline's owners must pay to the state and municipalities it crosses.

A powerful earthquake struck a Republican senator's home state Wednesday. Just a day earlier, she'd slammed budget cuts that could affect natural disaster warnings.

More than $15 million in annual federal funding for Alaska's 27 public media stations is at stake as the U.S. Senate this week is set to take up a Trump administration request to claw back federal funding.

The fate of Alaska’s smaller public radio stations is in doubt after Congress passed a bill to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years.

Agencies monitoring wildfires in Alaska have downgraded the state to Preparedness Level 3 (PL3) as of Wednesday morning.July 18 - 11 a.m.Fire activity has remained minimal on the Bear Creek Fire, according to Alaska Wildland Fire Information.

In the fall of 2019, Tom Begich and I sat in the Atwood Building lobby, waiting to meet with Gov. Mike Dunleavy. That meeting marked the start of a four-year effort to pass the Alaska Reads Act — a comprehensive policy aimed at improving early literacy for Alaska’s children.

The controversial program, aimed at boosting the population of a struggling caribou herd in Western Alaska, had been halted by court rulings because of legal flaws.