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5 days ago · Where do Harris and Trump stand on 10 major policy issues? The Alaska Beacon is an independent, nonpartisan news organization focused on connecting Alaskans to their state government. Our journalists fairly and fearlessly report …
Alaska-owned corporation approves $750,000 for legal fights over …
2 days ago · Alaska’s state-owned development corporation is advancing plans to explore for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and to build a 300-mile road to a mining district in Northwest Alaska. The board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority voted unanimously Thursday to spend ...
Strong sockeye salmon return expected next year in Alaska’s …
13 hours ago · The world’s biggest sockeye salmon run will be larger than average next year, state biologists have forecasted. The Bristol Bay sockeye run is expected to total 51.21 million fish in 2025, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s preseason forecast, issued last week.. That is 38% more than the long-term average …
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5 days ago · BY: Yereth Rosen - November 8, 2024. Scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker have discovered something unusual in the Arctic Ocean off northern Alaska: a volcano-like structure rising more than 500 meters from the seafloor and possibly emitting gas. The discovery came as scientists from different organizations were aboard the Healy, one ...
Live Election Results • Alaska Beacon
6 days ago · Get 2024 election results as they are reported: district by district, state by state. Real-time results and race calls by Decision Desk HQ. The Alaska Beacon is an independent, nonpartisan news organization focused on connecting Alaskans to their state government. Our journalists fairly and ...
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Nov 1, 2024 · The defense of Alaska oil tax law is seriously misleading. BY: Brad Keithley - November 5, 2024. The recent defense of Senate Bill 21 offered in the Alaska Beacon by the four co-chairs of the 2014 “No on 1” campaign is seriously misleading. Ironically, in their claimed effort “to set the record straight and address falsehoods swirling ...
Government & Politics Archives • Alaska Beacon
Oct 25, 2024 · BY: Claire Stremple - October 25, 2024. Republican Rep. Ben Carpenter, R-Nikiski, is not seeking reelection for a fourth term in the House. Instead, he is running against incumbent Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, for the Senate seat in the same region. In the primary, Bjorkman had a 4-percentage-point advantage over Carpenter, 44.3% to 40.3%.
Two years in, the Alaska Beacon is going strong
May 10, 2024 7:14 pm. The Talkeetna spur road leading into community’s downtown district is seen on March 9, 2024, with Denali and other Alaska Range mountains in the backdrop. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) On Saturday, the Alaska Beacon will mark the second anniversary of its May 11, 2022, launch. Just like this week, the launch week ...
Typhoon Merbok spotlights Alaska’s need for science and climate ...
Sep 28, 2022 · A fish camp in the Nome area, seen on Sept. 24, shows damages wreaked by the remnants of Typhoon Merbok. The day before, President Biden declared a major disaster for a vast stretch of western Alaska that had been slammed with high winds and floods caused by the remnants of that typhoon.
The Alaska Beacon launches with the goal of a better-informed state
May 11, 2022 · The Alaska Beacon aims to be an outlet people who want to better understand Alaska and its government can turn to. It’s nonpartisan and independent of any politician, political campaign or vested interest. The Beacon makes Alaska the 27th state covered by States Newsroom, a national nonprofit founded in 2017 with the goal of improving ...