19+ hour, 10+ min ago   (593+ words) Home » Anchorage Assembly to weigh limits on police surveillance as privacy, public-safety debate intensifies Sept. 13, 2026 — The Anchorage Assembly will continue a public hearing Tuesday on a controversial proposal that would place new limits and reporting requirements on the Anchorage Police…...

23+ hour, 3+ min ago   (625+ words) Home » Juneau abortion-rights PAC weighs in on Oct. 6 local races that have no authority over abortion law Step. 13, 2026 – The Juneau Pro-Choice Coalition Political Action Committee has released its endorsements for the Oct. 6 municipal election. The group applied an abortion-rights test…...

23+ hour, 10+ min ago   (648+ words) Home » Michael Coons: Communism promises plenty but delivers scarcity Sept. 13, 1016 – Alexander Dolitsky came to America in 1978, and his column, published in The Alaska Story on Saturday, is spot on, especially regarding the Soviet Union. Back in 1972, I took the Orient…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (853+ words) Home » Alaska drops remaining Whittier voter misconduct cases after appeals court raises burden of proof Sept. 12, 2026 — The State of Alaska has dropped its remaining voter misconduct cases against nine American Samoan residents of Whittier, after the Alaska Court of Appeals…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (523+ words) Home » Trump announces Obamacare refunds to millions of Americans, including Alaskans, who were overcharged Sept. 10, 2026 — Some Alaskans who purchased health insurance through the federal Obamacare marketplace without receiving a premium subsidy will receive a $500 refund from the federal government beginning…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (825+ words) Home » Democrats’ lawyer sends cease-and-desist threat to Alaska radio stations over ranked-choice voting repeal ads Sept. 9, 2026 — An attorney representing the campaign to preserve ranked-choice voting in Alaska has sent a cease-and-desist letter to radio stations demanding that they stop broadcasting…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (806+ words) Home » ‘Decoy Dan’ scam exposes much wider network of political operatives and ‘nonprofit’ money in Alaska Sept. 9, 2026 — The federal election complaint surrounding Alaska US Senate candidate Daniel J. Sullivan (Decoy Dan) may be only the tip of the iceberg — a…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (518+ words) Home » Small businesses join major Alaska unions in backing Sullivan for reelection Sept. 8, 2026 — Republican US Sen. Dan Sullivan has picked up yet another endorsement, this time from the National Federation of Independent Business, adding the voice of small-business owners to…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1200+ words) Home » UW to pay $600,000 to professor after losing First Amendment fight over his parody land acknowledgment Sept. 8, 2026 – Apparently, the University of Washington has no sense of humor. For that, the university will be paying $600,000 to settle a four-year legal battle…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (350+ words) Home » Alexander Dolitsky: Neo-Marxism and far-left Democratic Socialism are a death spiral for America Sept. 8, 2026 – In the early 1980s, I attended graduate school at Brown University, where only two Soviet-born and raised students were enrolled at the time. I was from…...