All the headlines from our Alaska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 16 2019 // Assessments following Alaska’s enormous 2018 earthquake showed building damage was worse outside Anchorage’s safety area because of reduced regulation, municipal officials said.There was less structural damage...
Dec 12 2019 // A federal agency awarded Alaska a $35.8 million federal grant to support earthquake disaster recovery efforts, officials said.The Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the grant in response to the damaging...
Dec 6 2019 // Assessments following Alaska’s enormous 2018 earthquake showed building damage was worse outside Anchorage’s safety area because of reduced regulation, municipal officials said.There was less structural damage...
Dec 2 2019 // Alaska officials estimate state and federal assistance following the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that rocked parts of south-central Alaska last year will top $400 million.The state emergency management department says the...
Nov 25 2019 // The Alaska Earthquake Center confirmed an earthquake hit the Andreanof Islands region. The center says the magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck at 3:54 p.m. Saturday. The epicenter was 59 miles southeast of Adak, a village of...
Nov 18 2019 // The rate of fatal airplane crashes in Alaska is higher than the national average, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.The NTSB has preliminary reports for 10 fatal plane wrecks in Alaska for the 2019...
Nov 5 2019 // The rate of fatal airplane crashes in Alaska is higher than the national average, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.The NTSB has preliminary reports for 10 fatal plane wrecks in Alaska for the 2019...
Oct 10 2019 // The Alaska Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a lawsuit that claims state policy on fossil fuels is harming the constitutional right of young Alaskans to a safe climate.Sixteen Alaska youths in 2017 sued the...
Oct 7 2019 // Plymouth Rock Assurance, Rider Insurance CompanyPlymouth Rock Assurance has agreed to expand its investment in the motorcycle insurance segment with the acquisition of Rider Insurance Company, subject to regulatory...
Oct 1 2019 // Alaska city officials have sponsored protests that could stop two cannabis companies from opening despite having approved licenses.KYUK-AM reported that the state Marijuana Control Board recently approved licenses for two...
Sep 24 2019 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has hit another big corporation’s captive insurer with a fine.Kreidler has been going after captives for owed taxes by fining them since last year, when he issued large...
Sep 24 2019 // The nation’s most expensive wildfire this year is one that has been burning for months on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.The Swan Lake Fire has so far cost about $46 million to fight, according to the National...
Sep 17 2019 // CopperPoint Insurance Cos. has agreed to acquire Alaska National Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary Alaska National Insurance Co., an Alaska-domiciled workers’ compensation and commercial insurance carrier.The...
Sep 13 2019 // A grand jury in Alaska this week indicted General Electric’s Baker Hughes, two of its subsidiaries and an employee, for 25 felony charges of assault relating to toxic chemical releases at a construction site,...
Sep 3 2019 // The Alaska Earthquake Center confirmed that a magnitude 5.0 earthquake hit southern Alaska. It was felt by people in the state’s capital Juneau.The center confirmed the earthquake hit at 8:32 p.m. Saturday and had an...
Aug 27 2019 // Firefighters are making progress on an Alaska wildfire that has claimed 51 homes.Nearly 450 firefighters working the fire about 70 miles north of Alaska’s largest city brought it to 46 percent containment Monday, up...
Aug 26 2019 // An independent review has found credible accusations of past sexual misconduct against seven clergy members of an Alaska Catholic diocese, including a former priest who died in a July plane crash and another priest who was...
Aug 26 2019 // A wildfire in south-central Alaska has threatened multiple businesses in a nearby community, officials said. At least 51 homes and three businesses have been destroyed in a wildfire burning north of Anchorage. Another 84...
Aug 22 2019 // Which helps society more? Alcohol or cannabis.That sounds like a funny question, but it may be an important one with more local governments embracing the opportunity to bring in tax revenue from cannabis sales. A new...
Aug 16 2019 // An Alaska credit union plans to discontinue a pilot program to provide checking and savings accounts to marijuana-related businesses, an official said.Credit Union 1 will end the program Aug. 30 because critical insurance...