10+ hour, 28+ min ago   (435+ words) Home » Mukluk Fire reaches 70% containment, but buried hotspots still smolder near Tok homes By THE ALASKA STORY Sept. 13, 2026 – Firefighters extinguished a long-smoldering hotspot near a home on Midnight Sun Drive Friday morning as work continued on the 7,339-acre Mukluk Fire…...

15+ hour, 15+ min ago   (1089+ words) Home » Suzanne Downing: The ‘other’ Mary showed up in Kodiak fish debate, and it was not the nice Mary Sept. 13, 2026 – For years, Mary Peltola’s political handlers have sold Alaskans a carefully polished image: Mary smiling. Mary laughing. Mary holding a…...

16+ hour, 50+ 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…...

20+ hour, 43+ 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…...

20+ hour, 8+ min ago   (428+ words) Home » Barbara Haney: Eight questions the Fairbanks Assembly should answer before voting on 2026-25 This is not a question of whether you like organized labor. It is a question of procurement, of who bids on borough work and what the borough…...

20+ hour, 50+ 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, 11+ 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…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (779+ words) Home » Robert Seitz: Alaska’s natural gas future depends on certainty, and certainly not on delay Sept. 12, 2026 – I don’t know how many different ways there are to tell those legislators who have halted the move to prosperity with stupid considerations which…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1126+ words) Home » Anchorage Assembly to hear proposal giving 10-year property-tax break to select first-time homebuyers Sept. 12, 2026 — The Anchorage Assembly will hold a public hearing Tuesday on a proposed 10-year property-tax exemption for certain newly constructed homes purchased by first-time buyers — an…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (242+ words) Home » John Quick: Charlie Kirk and the lost art of listening Editor’s note: On the anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we are reposting this column from John Quick, which we first published on Sept. 14, 2025. What happened to Charlie…...