Sen. Tuberville has blocked every military confirmation vote since February to protest an abortion policy. He finally relented.

Anchorage residents have faced a series of snow storms this week, and being a pedestrian in the city has been challenging, if not impossible.

Alysha Cypher with the Prince William Sound Science Center has a $400,000 EPA grant to use waste heat from the local electric co-op to dry Cordova seaweed. 

The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority is selling some of the 1 million acres of federal land it received under the Mental Health Act of 1956.

Robin Lutz, executive director at the Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association, or 4-As, said the organization has been talking with people newly diagnosed with HIV. She said Alaskans face many barriers to accessing PrEP.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, is working with Alaska’s division of public health to better understand why the Fairbanks and the interior region has seen a cluster of new HIV cases over the past two years.

Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola said she doesn’t see a solution until Republicans reach across the aisle to elect the next speaker.

The Alaska congresswoman will return to a speaker-less U.S. House where some are floating an idea she's familiar with: bipartisan leadership.

Sending money overseas for Ukraine’s defense has become controversial among Republicans. Opponents link it with images of migrants streaming across from Mexico to accuse President Biden of caring more about Ukraine’s borders than America’s. Alaska’s senators say: Fund both.

Beaudreau grew up in Anchorage. "There was a certain amount of comfort, knowing that he knew our state," Sen. Murkowski says.

An ominous murmur arose after the vote was announced, D.C. correspondent Liz Ruskin says.

Josh Revak is a former state legislator. Peltola drew some heat for picking a Republican to serve in a key spot.

Your mail will arrive. Your paycheck might not.

"It's really hard to get hard work done when people cannot talk to one another. And that's what we're seeing in the House," Sen. Murkowski said.

U.S. Sens. Murkowski and Sullivan expressed "deep concerns." Congresswoman Peltola asked the FTC to block the merger.

“It's 10 times the amount of Indian Health Service funding that we had been historically getting,” said Charissa Williar of ANTHC.

Despite improvements, Alaska aviation safety still lags the rest of the country.

Gwichyaa Zhee, also known as Fort Yukon, has always depended on salmon. But for the fourth year in a row, managers have severely restricted fishing, as the Yukon River king and chum salmon runs collapsed. Residents say the closures have been devastating to their way of life.

Investigators say those trying to repeal Alaska's voting system routed a $90,000 political contribution through a church group, among other alleged violations of campaign laws.

Supporting the cause is just one reason the well-connected pay thousands of dollars to fish with a Congress member.

As a Democrat running for re-election in an oil-producing state, she’s setting herself apart from the mainstream of her party on energy.

Alaska's national parks saw 2 million visitors last year. Their spending is down from the pre-pandemic high of $1.5 billion.

The secretary of Transportation will visit Kotzebue, Anchorage and Juneau next week, his office announced.

A wayward walrus calf, just one month old, was rescued from the North Slope.

“This will be one of the most competitive races in the country," says a National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman.

Murkowski says "clear evidence" showed Trump tried to overturn the election, and it's only gotten stronger.

A 5.2% pay raise and provisions to help Alaska Native Corporations win defense contracts are also in the bill.

The EPA “confiscated state property and created a de facto national park," the state argues.

Sens. Joe Manchin and Lisa Murkowski are centrists and allies, particularly on energy issues.

The federal court decision blocks a possible avenue for forcing a solution to a decades-long problem.

Founder Michelle Overstreet says it started with a phone call from Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

Service members deserve reproductive freedom, says Peltola, who missed 30 votes Thursday due to illness.

Darin Schilmiller posed online as a rich man, claiming he’d pay millions of dollars for sexually explicit photos and video of Cynthia Hoffman's murder.

Republican Nicholas Begich III is taking another run at becoming Alaska’s next member of Congress.

Wilderness safety instructor Deb Ajango says adventurers can make thinking errors that, in some cases, make an uncomfortable situation much worse.

Alaska is one of the only places in the world where peony flowers grow in the summer months. But the unusually cold, wet weather this year is delaying the blooms by weeks. And peony farmers say they have had to cancel the bulk of their early season orders, leading to lost revenue.

In Lithuania, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan stressed that other NATO countries need to pay more for their defense.

McParland is Rep. Mary Peltola's chief of staff and campaign manager. No aide is closer to her.

“We can't get soft on our support for Ukraine," Murkowski told reporters.

State regulators propose a civil punishment for last year's gas blowout at Alpine

The $513,000 would have looked into the origin of salmon caught by the Bering Sea pollock fleet.

Vetoes total more than $200 million, including half of the one-time boost the Legislature added for schools.

Fish valued at several hundred million dollars are able to evade the ban by diverting to China first.

The EPA has updated its rules on the use of chemicals to disperse oil spills.

The company was fined $267,000 for substituting equipment without authorization, the latest in more than 60 compliance issues.

The U.S. Supreme Court trimmed the EPA's authority. Implications for the Pebble Mine are unclear.

Congresswoman Mary Peltola and other salmon advocates try another avenue to limit bycatch.

This will be the first visit to Bethel by any spouse of a sitting president, according to her office.

Judge Sharon Gleason threw out all 11 of Bishar Hassan's family’s claims, citing video footage of the shooting.

You won't see drastic changes. Some changes won't take effect for months.

House Democrats defend ICWA and the "terrifying" historical context that brought Congress to pass it.

Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, says a poll shows a majority of Alaskans would repeal RCV. But public testimony in Juneau ran 3-to-1 against it.

She's co-sponsoring a bill that would require the justices to adopt their own ethics rules. She and Sen. Angus King are the only sponsors so far.

Justices say the state made the right call when it decided not to advance Tara Sweeney to special election ballot.

It's a partial win for Pebble on appeal, but mine developers also have an EPA veto to contend with.

Don Rearden challenged a bot to write a poem. The result was trippy for him, and for reporter Liz Ruskin.

ExxonMobil told shareholders not to expect an expansion of Arctic activities. A second Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lease sale is expected in 2024.

The U.S. has given $35 billion in security aid to Ukraine. "An investment in the democracy of the free world," Sen. Murkowski calls it.

Aaron Mileur was sentenced to two years of probation. He'd like to modify one of the terms.

Rep. Mary Peltola avoided passing judgment on former president Donald Trump's indictment Tuesday, but called it "a bleak day for Americans."

Opponents of Arctic drilling project lose Round 1 in court.

As with many recent sessions, discussions largely center on the state’s finances, while a number of social issues have come up as well.

Sen. Sullivan's castigation of the decision to charge the former president contrasts with the neutral positions taken by the rest of the Alaska delegation.

The collection fills 4,800 boxes, not counting a warehouse full of memorabilia.

Rep. Mary Peltola on Tuesday plugged "Second Amendment rights and good values."

Rudy Tsukada is COO of Coastal Villages Region Fund.

Alaska Native mushers took the podium in the 2023 Iditarod, with the Knik Kid, Ryan Redington, winning his first championship and Bethel's Pete Kaiser and Aniak's Richie Diehl mushing into second and third place. The race's top 10 were all into Nome by Wednesday morning, and we have an update on Rookie of the Year honors, as well as three Dogs of the Day, two listener questions and a story about collecting dog pee. Also: This'll do it for Season 7 of the Iditapod. Thanks for coming along with us on this thousand-mile journey!

The 40-year-old Ryan Redington has won his first Iditarod and the first championship for the Redington family, on his 16th try (and after six previous scratches). "I've just been on pins and needles," said his mom, Barb, at the finish line. We'll hear Redington's finish itself in this episode, and from Alaska Public Media's Lex Treinen about the finish and how Redington arrived there first. The dog friends that did the leading into Nome -- Sven and Ghost -- are our obvious picks for Dogs of the Day. And we have a listener question about dog-human friends, with a fun answer from a friendly musher.

The Biden administration announced Monday that it will approve ConocoPhillips' Willow project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

Ryan Redington has a secure hold on first place in the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, heading into the final 100 miles of trail. Meanwhile, one rookie musher had some trouble holding onto his dog sled, after falling asleep, falling off and getting a fortuitous lift. We have a listener question, not about losing a dog team, but about losing stuff along the Iditarod Trail. And it's a twofer of Dogs of the Day: Riley Dyche's smart and mellow Elway and Mike Williams Jr.'s smart and hyper Viper.

In this extended interview, we hear more from John Suter, an Iditarod finisher who famously had a team that included poodles. Suter ran the Iditarod with poodles in 1988, '89, '90 and '91, finishing each year ahead of other teams racing more traditional sled dogs.

Reigning Iditarod champion Brent Sass has scratched from this year’s race, due to what race officials described as “periodontal health” issues. So 31 teams remained in the race Saturday, and in this episode we hear from the chase pack-turned lead pack about how they were feeling about heading up the Yukon River, plus more from the top rookies in this year’s race. We have a powerhouse Dog of the Day with a funny, uh, pungent name, and a listener question about sled dog breeds that led us to the famous poodle musher.

Iditarod teams are passing through the village checkpoint of Anvik and onto the Yukon River.  We have that, as well as stories from earlier on the trail about how mushers were setting their teams up for these runs earlier in the checkpoint of Iditarod and about the tiny village of Takotna reopening as an Iditarod checkpoint this year, after closing down due to COVID. Then there’ll be an update from Jason Mackey about carrying his brother Lance Mackey’s ashes along the trail, a Mackey Dog of the Day named COVID and a listener question about what the mushers are listening to, if they’re listening to anything at all, aside from, you know, dog feet and sled runners.

In this episode, we hear from Iditarod mushers in the midst of their required 24-hour layovers and from our current Red Lantern musher. We also have a chat with a former top 10 musher who’s returning to the race and running a team of mostly rookie dogs, plus a look at the Iditarod's new pilot program for tracking dropped dogs. And as always we have our Dog of the Day -- not a new dog but a dog who got a new name -- and a listener question with answers from several mushers this time. (Hint: This one might make you hungry).

Iditarod mushers are making decisions about where to stop for their mandatory 24-hour rests, some opting to take that break earlier than planned, as the teams continue to contend with warm weather. The village of Nikolai is also fully open to visitors for the first time in three years of COVID-19 restrictions, and that's where some mushers were dealing with busted sleds and their own bruised bodies. In this episode, we also get into how the race shapes up after those 24-hour layovers and how the weather is expected to change for the cooler. Plus, we have a speedy Dog of the Day -- Matt Failor's Mach 10 -- who's learning to slow down, plus a listener question, a musher answer and a follow-up to yesterday's question about adopting retired sled dogs.

Iditarod teams are contending with warm weather in the thousand-mile race, many choosing to run in the cool of night as much as possible. We'll talk about that in this episode, plus a little about what other sports some mushers have participated in outside of mushing. We have another Dog of the Day -- this time, a trusty leader named JoAnna and, as always, a listener question.

Iditarod mushers took their sled dog teams on an untimed, celebratory fun run from downtown Anchorage on the city’s trails, with hundreds of fans cheering along the way. We hear from mushers and fans – maybe the pitter patter of little dog feet – as well as a joyful bride, a grumpy bear, a curious moose (or three), a former Miss Alaska and her mom, who had a fox on her head, and more!

Iditarod mushers took their sled dog teams on an untimed, celebratory fun run from downtown Anchorage on the city’s trails, with hundreds of fans cheering along the way. We hear from mushers and fans – maybe the pitter patter of little dog feet – as well as a joyful bride, a grumpy bear, a curious moose (or three), a former Miss Alaska and her mom, who had a fox on her head, and more!

That's right, it's Iditarod time, and we're back with another season of Iditapod. In the first episode of our seventh season, host Casey Grove and trail reporters Lex Treinen and Ben Matheson discuss the smallest field in race history and how a quarter of the mushers in the 2023 Iditarod are rookies. We also recap last year's race, talk about the legacy of the late four-time champion Lance Mackey and we even have a Dog of the Day, a spunky little leader named Dusty.

The ConocoPhillips project is opposed by environmental advocates but supported by Alaska's political and business establishment.

The Legislature has had 45 days to get its arms around the problems. Next up: search for solutions, says Alaska Beacon reporter James Brooks.

Mary Louise Rasmuson was head of the Women's Army Corps. She later married Anchorage banker Elmer Rasmuson and moved to Alaska.

U.S. Sen. Murkowski urged legislators to have a vision, "think big" and not rely solely on federal money.

For most homeowners, the load isn't the problem.

Bipartisanship is U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola's motto, and her first address to the Alaska Legislature was on-brand.

A few hundred people met at a south Anchorage church Thursday night to kick off a signature drive aiming to get rid of ranked choice voting and go back to the way Alaska used to elect candidates.

Alaska’s U.S. senators say half measures won’t suffice as they push for ConocoPhillips’ drilling proposal in the western Arctic.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy cited security and privacy concerns regarding use of the app.

Climatologist Rick Thoman says climate change is driving this more extreme winter snowfall.

Mary Peltola was supposed to be sworn in for a full term in Congress. That didn't happen.

The mountain was named for a fierce creature. Now it will bear Don Young's name.

Murkowski got nearly half a billion dollars in Alaska earmarks. Sullivan says there was no time to read the 4,000 pages.

Would Oath Keepers overthrow the government? Their jailed founder says no.

With more than 40 inches of snow in less than two weeks, there’s a lot to dig into.

At the same time, the state is seeing a shortage of amoxicillin.

Rep. David Eastman isn't accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol. But if he belongs to a group that did, his legislative career could be over.

Dahlstrom said she’s committed to upholding the policies of the election system set in law. Even so, she expressed reservations about the current ranked choice voting system.

The lack of winter sea ice is keeping temperatures warm. Climatologist Rick Thoman says it's a "very clear climate change signal."

Both Trump-endorsed candidates are making vague accusations of malfeasance, despite no evidence of election fraud.

“The most important thing to know about Bill Sheffield is that he loved Alaska,” said friend John Pugh.

Answers to six frequently asked questions.

Candidates for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat sparred over fish, energy and partisan politics at Wednesday’s Debate for the State.

On Friday, Pierce's former executive assistant filed a lawsuit against him and the Kenai Peninsula Borough alleging “constant unwanted physical touching, sexual remarks, and sexual advances."

As Alaskans prepare to vote in November on whether to hold a constitutional convention, the privacy clause is a major focus.

In a ranked-choice election, the two progressive gubernatorial candidates are relying on each other’s second-place votes to win.

The election of Yup'ik Mary Peltola brought unexpected tears to some Alaska Native people.

When a massive, unexpected landslide blocked the only road to Lowell Point, Tom Miller knew his water taxi service was the only way to move residents, school children, and tourists back and forth to the nearby town of Seward.

Jacob Twork and Eddy Carolina Cruz both signed plea deals filed in federal court Tuesday in which they admitted to one felony count each of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud.