A proposed ocean and fish restoration project in the Gulf of Alaska is trying to generate support at the local and state level. Anchorage state Senator Elvi [EHL-vee] Gray-Jackson wants Alaskans to put pressure on their congressional delegation to block Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from becoming the country s top U.S. health official.

State and Local News: A former Anchorage lawmaker’s election interference case ends with a hung jury. Record rains leave Ketchikan worried about a repeat of August’s fatal mudslide.A new report not only tracks climate change’s impacts on the environment and the Alaska Native subsistence lifestyle, but also explains them in everyday language. Weather advisories for freezing rain for Anchorage makes for dangerous driving.

State and Local News: The Coast Guard searches for missing crew members after a seiner capsized near Hoonah on Sunday. A deadly fire in Sutton killed two people early Saturday. Another pedestrian fatality in Anchorage over the weekend, the 15th this year. The state of Alaska is turning down federal money to remove lead pipes in water lines. The reason might surprise you. Why lead poses a deadly threat to Alaska’s loon population.

State and Local News: A verdict is expected in the voter misconduct trial of former Republican lawmaker Gabrielle LeDoux. Signs on the Kenai Peninsula that an animal tranquilizer is being mixed with fentanyl, making illegal drugs even more dangerous. The economic benefits of shopping local are spotlighted tomorrow, on Small Business Saturday. The Glenn Highway Christmas Tree tradition lives on.

Anchorage police have stepped up patrols near the popular University Lake Park, after a shooting Monday night left a man wounded, and KNBA’s Rhonda McBride looks at how Alaska Native languages offer a window, not just to the past, but into humanity and the spirituality of gratitude.

A man arrested last month, in a string of recent Anchorage bank robberies had served time for robbing one of the locations five years earlier.

Researchers from a nationwide consortium recently wrapped up a 12-year study of the Alaskan Arctic this summer. The Bethel Search and Rescue (BSAR) recently did their 2024 Kuskokwim River Aerial Survey.

A dead whale washed up last weekend on the mudflats near Westchester Lagoon. Anchorage utility officials are asking thousands of residents to check their pipes for possible lead fittings.

The Alaska U.S. House seat flips to a Republican. Alaska keeps open primaries and ranked choice voting.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEM, announced last week that President Joe Biden had approved a major disaster declaration for Ketchikan’s August landslide. The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand an Alaska law aimed at reducing dark money in politics