Home • Alaska Beacon
WEBSep 27, 2024 · The Alaska Beacon is an independent, nonpartisan news organization focused on connecting Alaskans to their state government. Our journalists fairly and fearlessly report on the people and interests that determine state policy. We’re part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.
Alaska’s drug-overdose deaths hit a grim record in 2023, a state …
WEB1 day ago · The vast majority of the Alaska overdose deaths, 88.6%, were accidental. Suicides accounted for 6.6% of the deaths, while 4.8% were in a different and undefined category. Victims tended to be male, aged 25 to 54 and living in the state’s urban core. Nearly two-thirds of the fatal overdoses in 2023 were …
News - Alaska Beacon
WEB4 days ago · BY: James Brooks - September 28, 2024. In a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Alaska Supreme Court said Friday that the COVID-19 pandemic does not qualify as “physical loss” or “damage” under common commercial insurance policies. The decision likely means that insurance companies will not have to pay most claims related to business losses ...
Alaska wildfire season, marked by significant smoke events, closes …
WEB2 days ago · Alaska closed its summer with a wildfire season that was almost exactly normal. In all, 375 fires burned a little over 667,000 acres in Alaska, according to preliminary numbers, according to federal and state wildfire managers. That number is around the median, with roughly equal numbers of seasons above or below it.
Alaska legislative panel bans large signs in the state Capitol after ...
WEB1 day ago · Alaska legislators have voted to ban large signs in the state Capitol, a move that followed large protests over Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s decision to veto a multipart education bill. Under a new policy, visitors to the Capitol “are permitted to hand-carry a paper-based poster board or placard type ...
In Alaska’s local elections, a cruise ship limit fails, races are close ...
WEB3 days ago · Voters in Alaska’s capital city have rejected a resident-written ballot proposition that would have banned large cruise ships on Saturdays and the Fourth of July.. Tuesday was municipal election day for most of Alaska’s cities and boroughs, and in preliminary results in Juneau, about 60% of participating voters sided against the …
How Alaska regulators ignored a gas conservation scheme
WEB4 days ago · The Regulatory Commission of Alaska last week ruled on the broader rate increase requested by Chugach Electric Association. The utility says it’s still studying the intricate, 89-page order to understand its effects. But to the advocates who proposed the natural gas conservation scheme, there was one clear takeaway: The order made just one ...
Feds will keep large-scale development ban in place on 28 million …
WEBAug 27, 2024 · The federal government will continue to prohibit mining, drilling and other forms of development on 28 million acres of federal land spread across Alaska, the Interior Department announced Tuesday. The move, hailed by environmental groups and scorned by Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the state’s congressional delegation, reverses an …
Two years in, the Alaska Beacon is going strong
WEBMay 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 ...
The Alaska Beacon launches with the goal of a better-informed state
WEBMay 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 …