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After remnants of typhoon wrecked their home, Alaska villagers consider possible move
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (1737+ words) The village of Kipnuk, largely submerged by the remnants of Typhoon Halong, is seen on Oct. 12, 2025. Alaska Air National Guard rescue personnel conducted search and rescue operations there, and the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management has worked…...
Twenty years of Arctic report cards
3+ mon, 22+ hour ago (807+ words) Alaska glaciers, such as Worthington here near Valdez, have shrunk the height of a 10-story building since 1950. Chum salmon, such as this one that returned to the Delta River to spawn, recently crashed in numbers along with Chinook salmon. Northern…...
Top Alaska public safety stories of 2025: Typhoon Halong, crime and immigration enforcement
4+ mon, 16+ hour ago (815+ words) Families sit together in the evacuation flight from Bethel to Anchorage on Oct. 16, 2025. Alaska dealt with a range of public safety challenges and policy choices in 2025, from extreme weather to immigration enforcement. The devastation left by Typhoon Halong in Western…...
Officials report no major injuries as massive drilling rig topples over on Alaska's North Slope
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (369+ words) The Doyon 26 rig in the Fiord Wes Kuparuk resevoir in February 2019. A massive drilling rig operating on Conoco Phillips" behalf toppled over while traveling along a gravel road on Alaska"s North Slope on Friday afternoon, local and company officials…...
The scent of barren ground grizzly
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1079+ words) Washington State University doctoral student Ellery Vincent, left, and Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Jordan Pruszenski take measurements and samples of an anesthetized grizzly bear on the North Slope of Alaska prior to installing a video collar in…...
Climate, health groups challenge EPA repeal of major greenhouse gas regulation
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (630+ words) A coalition of public health and environmental groups filed a suit Wednesday challenging the Trump administration's recent finding that the Environmental Protection Agency could not regulate climate-warming greenhouse gases. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Donald Trump announced last week…...
Supreme Court denies state appeal on Alaska subsistence management
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (568+ words) Salmon drying in Quinhagak, Alaska. Petition denied. Those two words appeared on the U. S. Supreme Court's docket Monday as it rejected the state of Alaska's appeal over Kuskokwim River salmon subsistence rights. The decision ends another chapter of a lengthy legal…...
Proposed surcharge on oil would help pay for responses to climate-related disasters in Alaska
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (731+ words) A fish camp in the Nome area, seen on Sept. 24, 2022, shows damages wreaked by the remnants of Typhoon Merbok. The day before, then-President Biden declared a major disaster for a vast stretch of western Alaska that had been slammed with…...
Zeldin tells climate skeptics to 'celebrate vindication' after repeal of baseline climate rule
3+ week, 1+ day ago (533+ words) Lee Zeldin, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, delivers a speech at the reception of the Indo-Pacific Energy Security Ministerial and Business Forum at U. S. Ambassador's Residence Friday, March 13, 2026, in Tokyo." "Today is a moment to celebrate. It is a day to celebrate…...
Fairbanks resolution opposes proposed Chena Riverwalk option
3+ week, 2+ day ago (812+ words) A Fairbanks City Council member has sponsored a resolution opposing a design option for the proposed Chena Riverwalk Stage III project currently being discussed by Fairbanks Area Surface Transportation Planning. Council member Crystal Tidwell said during a Tuesday work session…...