Residents of Alaska border towns are eager to travel into Canada amid COVID testing requirements; A state subsidy for rural home electricity earlier this year was ruled as not defunded; State law enforcement agencies have failed to collect the DNA of more than 21,000 people arrested; An Anchorage store owner was ordered Wednesday in federal court to pay more than $400,000 total in fines and restitution for illegally buying and selling walrus ivory

Why both Alaska senators voted for the $1 trillion infrastructure bill; The mysterious tsunami warning; The Mat-su Superintendent's $20,000 bonus; The source of a food-borne illness outbreak has been found

THC levels in edibles can now double in Alaska; The campaign of Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson has been fined over 33 thousand dollars; The Anchorage School District superintendent is doubling down on plans to require students and staff to wear masks; Alaska’s latest coronavirus surge continued over the weekend with 863 new COVID-19 cases

The state of Alaska Businesses one year after the pandemic; Efforts to recover the wreckage of a sightseeing plane that crashed in South East Alaska were hampered; An update on Alaska'a Power Cost Equalization program; The new Anchorage police chief wants to improve investigations into non-fatal shootings; Providence health and services staff will soon be required to get vaccinated against COVID-19; Mayor Dave Bronson’s appointed health department director has resigned

Remembering Maggie the elephant; Oil exploration could be on the way; New details on the Alaska health department cyberattack; Alaska musher Lance Mackey has been diagnosed with cancer again.

The Olympic sprinter who got his start in Alaska; An Anchorage employment update; School students and staff to wear masks indoors; A new airline plans to start flying nonstop between Anchorage and Unalaska this fall

Meet the Seward swim moms who supported Lydia Jacoby to Olympic gold; The $1 trillion infrastructure bill is under consideration by the U.S. Senate; A new review of oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; An Alaska women’s prison is closed due to a COVID outbreak

The pain of getting a death certificate when Alaska is offline; Alaska has reported over 750 COVID-19 cases in just three days; Mayor Dave Bronson’s health department appointee has been expedited; A 29-year-old man is accused of starting a fire at an Eagle River apartment complex

Unvaccinated Alaskans are driving a new hospitalization trend; Universal masking will be recommended in all schools this fall; Inflation in Alaska over the last 12 months has surged: Alaskan Lydia Jacoby wins another medal

A live killer whale stranded on the Southeast Alaska beach; Alaska’s new ranked-choice voting system is legal; State health officials are encouraging even fully vaccinated Alaskans to wear masks; The largest Alaska earthquake since 1965 caused a tsunami warning along the Alaska coast.