Internet and phone service provider SpitWSpots experienced an extended outage earlier this month. Human-fueled climate change is making natural disasters like floods and landslides in Alaska more common and destructive.

The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center raised over $30,000 in just 2 days to rebuild an animal shelter after it was destroyed by high winds last Monday, and the mayor of Anchorage has thrown her support behind the Eklutna Tribe’s efforts to build a small casino on the outskirts of the city.

The 34th Alaska Legislature doesn’t convene until Jan. 21. But some state lawmakers are already getting to work. Next month will be the last time a Maersk-branded vessel stops in Alaska.

The 34th Alaska Legislature doesn’t convene until Jan. 21, and a new used outdoor gear shop is opening soon on the southern Kenai Peninsula.

A new used outdoor gear shop is opening soon on the southern Kenai Peninsula; and eligible Kenai Peninsula voters can now apply to replace outgoing borough assembly member Bill Elam.

South Peninsula Hospital is launching a free mindfulness course for teens in Homer next week, and last June a fire in Stebbins reduced its only school to rubble.

Members of the public will continue to have two opportunities to speak during Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meetings; The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation on Thursday named Glenfarne Group LLC as the company it’s in talks with to take over the $44 billion Alaska LNG Project; and South Peninsula Hospital is launching a free mindfulness course for teens in Homer next week.

A vehicle collided with a school bus carrying 27 students Tuesday afternoon near Soldotna. Alaska’s transportation department is on track to get more than $1 million to minimize avalanche risks to Seward Highway drivers.

About 15 dedicated Wrangellites spent their December searching for what feathered creatures were flying around, and Alaska State Troopers arrested a former candidate for the Homer City Council last Saturday for several charges including arson.

The state corporation spearheading an effort to build a $44 billion natural gas pipeline between the North Slope and Nikiski says it’s finalizing an agreement with a private company to lead the project. Alaska State Troopers arrested a former candidate for the Homer City Council last Saturday for several charges including arson. The 34th Alaska Legislature starts this month.