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Feds turn over Alaska hazardous waste management to state
8+ hour, 1+ min ago (428+ words) Alaska is now in charge of hazardous waste regulation in the state, a task that can be made more challenging by geographic remoteness. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday officially transferred authority for hazardous waste regulation to the Alaska Department…...
Book review: Photo book celebrates Indigenous projects that restore land and life
15+ hour, 10+ min ago (157+ words) “Guardians of Life: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Science, and Restoring the Planet” By Kiliii Yuyan with Charles C. Mann; Braided River/Mountaineers Books, 2026; 224 pages; $49.95. The Alaska story exemplifies the book’s advocacy for including Indigenous peoples and their traditional knowledge in making…...
The FCC spends hundreds of millions subsidizing internet for Alaska schools and libraries. Now it might cut the program.
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (1756+ words) JUNEAU — For some of Alaska’s most remote schools and libraries, a federal program that helps pay for internet has been a critical part of their budgets. Now, those institutions are uncertain whether the program will continue. The Federal Communications Commission…...
Anchorage is loaded with feral cats. But what does that mean for the birds?
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (732+ words) I am a bit worried about writing this column because I know there are so many gardeners in Alaska who are also cat lovers. I learned this fact years ago after I made a derogatory comment about cats in a…...
Opinion: Rural mental healthcare starts with community voices
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (352+ words) While this survey does not represent every person living in rural Alaska, it highlights important concerns voiced by members of our community. Access to timely care was another concern. Eighty percent of respondents reported that they were unable to receive…...
Opinion: Why Sen. Lisa Murkowski is wrong about the SAVE Act and election security
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (612+ words) Anchorage Daily News Opinion: Why Sen. Lisa Murkowski is wrong about the SAVE Act and election security As a candidate for lieutenant governor of Alaska, I have immersed myself in our stateâs election laws. What I have found is…...
Quake survivors in southwestern Japan sleep in cars in sweltering heat as death toll rises to 34
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (936+ words) YATSUSHIRO, Japan — Thousands of survivors of a powerful earthquake in southwestern Japan spent Friday in crowded shelters or sleeping in cars as they faced shortages of water and fuel and punishing summer temperatures that stoked fears of heat-related illness. The…...
Letter: It’s ‘campaign finance’ because ‘bribery’ sounds so impolite
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (142+ words) Anchorage Daily News Letter: Itâs âcampaign financeâ because âbriberyâ sounds so impolite We no longer have a democracy. Instead, we have an oligarchy with periodic elections. Historically, the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2008 were…...
Letter: Don’t let mining promises pave over the facts
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (266+ words) Anchorage Daily News Letter: Donât let mining promises pave over the facts As analysts who have studied arguments for and against the proposed Ambler road for years, we are perplexed that the ADNâs editorial writers refuse to acknowledge…...
Opinion: What will you do when the lights go out?
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (579+ words) In the same vein, Larry Persily, owner of the Wrangell Sentinel, opines, “Alaska has waited 60 years for a North Slope gas pipeline project and can wait six more months until a new governor and new Legislature convene in January and…...